In 1995 the Royal Australian Corps of Signals commissioned Ken McFadyen to complete a series of paintings that portray the work of the Royal Australian Corps of Signals on UN duty overseas. An image ...

In between field returns and daily reports in the Second World War diaries of the 8 Australian Advanced Ordnance Depot (8 AAOD), for example, are issues of The Troppo Tribune. The “News Mouthpiece” of ...

In fact, Gordon Naley was not Afghan, but an Indigenous Australian. His mother was a Mirning woman: a people whose ...

Nicknamed the "burp" gun by Commonwealth troops because of the sound it made when fired, the Type 50 was the most widely used weapon within Chinese infantry units. It fired 7.62 mm calibre ammunition ...

An Australian war journalist, Pat Burgess, said of Burchett: No correspondent was better loved by his colleagues or more bitterly detested. Wilfred Burchett's career as a journalist reporting from war ...

The 9th Australian Brigade suffered bitter losses in its ill-fated attack on Passchendaele on 12 October 1917. Before he became one of the officers killed there, Clarence "Jeff" Jeffries (1894-1917) ...

Today marks the anniversary of the Fall of Singapore, one of the worst military disasters to befall Australia, and one of the greatest defeats in British history. Since 1923 Singapore had been ...

The Australian War Memorial’s $550 million development project will begin rising out of the ground, following the contract signing with the last of three main construction partners this week.

Dive deeper into the events that shaped ANZAC history and led to the rituals and traditions we observe today.

The Australian War Memorial today welcomed a Royal Australian Air Force (RAAF) RF-111C A8-134 aircraft into its collection. It will be housed in the recently built and completed storage facility at ...

Vignacourt is an old rural village in France, larger than most, 12 kilometres north of the city of Amiens. During the First World War it stood behind the front-line of the Somme fighting, although the ...

Suspended in the newly constructed spiral stairwells of the Memorial, two glass sculptures shimmer, casting dynamic shadows across the space. These breathtaking installations, hand-made by Annette ...