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

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 ...

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 ...

'Menin Gate at midnight' was painted by Will Longstaff to commemorate those soldiers with no marked graves on the Western Front during the First World War; also known as 'Ghosts of Menin Gate'.

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 ...

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 ...

Their activities are secret. Their missions are classified. Their identities are protected. They operate in secrecy to protect Australia’s people and national interests, and to support its allies.

The Nazi–Soviet war of 1941–45, also known as the Eastern Front of the Second World War, was the largest and most costly conflict in human history. Between June 1941 and May 1945, Adolf Hitler’s ...

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

The bicycle is a machine that we can all relate to, it’s a common denominator. Be that early childhood memories of the first ride down that steep hill, the freedom to go distances that would be ...

“[R]eading against the grain, looking for the silences or omissions in the official records and listening to the voices in the film archive … Woolley unearths the SIWs and the NYDs, the impact of ...

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 ...