The inland regional town of Albury offered various advantages as a hub of military activity during the Second World War. The ...
The Memorial holds a Private Records collection related to 180644 Captain (later Major) Ralph Lawrence Sadler. The collection contains documents, newspaper clippings and notebooks related to Sadler’s ...
After this, Susan disappears from the margins of the historical record, a far cry from his prior position at the centre of Australian identity: Gallipoli veteran, prisoner of war of the Germans, and ...
Transcript of diaries relating to the First World War service of Sister Alice Ross-King, Australian Army Nursing Service. The transcript contains all of Sister Ross-King's diaries covering her wartime ...
The Napier Waller Art Prize is open to all current and former service personnel in the Australian Defence Force. The prize encourages artistic excellence, promotes the transformative power of ...
After the defeat of the Japanese at Milne Bay, the Allies took the offensive in late 1942 with an attack on the Buna–Gona–Sanananda area of Papua. In this offensive, the KPM fleet was essential to the ...
Australian Red Cross Wounded and Missing Files: Unit 21st Australian Infantry Battalion Conflict First World War, 1914-1918 Rank Lieutenant Honours and Awards: Unit 24th Australian Infantry Battalion ...
The Third Battle of Ypres was the major British offensive in Flanders in 1917. It was planned to break through the strongly fortified and in-depth German defences enclosing the Ypres salient, a ...
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In most ceremonies of remembrance there is a reading of an appropriate poem. Age shall not weary them, nor the years condemn. At the going down of the sun and in the morning We will remember them. In ...
Over 400,000 people enlisted to serve for Australia in the First World War. While some volunteers were rejected because of their age, height, or size, the Defence Act stated that people “not ...
Depicts a still life of flowers and foliage in a biscuit tin. Lambert picked these flowers from the site of 'Beachy Bill', and painted them when the Australian Historical Mission was held up by rain. ...