Places of Pride. Places of Pride, the National Register of War Memorials, is a new initiative designed to record the locations and photographs of every publicly accessible memorial across Australia.

The Australian Women’s Army Service (AWAS) was formed in 1941 by Sir Percy Spender, who believed women were an underutilised resource in Australia’s war effort. The formation of the AWAS relieved men ...

ICOM International Museum Day 2025 The Future of Museums in Rapidly Changing Communities In late 2019, the gallery development team formed and embarked on the journey of developing 7,000 square metres ...

with veteran Jeffrey Phillip McCormack For VIETNAM - ONE IN, ALL IN I have created a tapestry-type weaving piece incorporating carved objects that relate to Uncle Jeff McCormack's war stories. I use ...

I am Major Angela Uphill, and I have had the privilege of serving as a Physiotherapist in the Royal Australian Army Medical Corps for 22 years. My service has taken me across the country, as well as ...

Eighty years ago, on 15 August 1945, Emperor Hirohito publicly announced Japan’s acceptance of the Allies’ terms and Japan’s surrender. Nazi Germany had surrendered to the Allies three months earlier.

Blair’s artwork was inspired by those famous lines from the Ode of Remembrance – “At the going down of the sun and in the morning, we will remember them” – the work is an ode to the personal and ...

Fifty years ago, on Christmas Day 1974, Judith Rowe stood in shock, staring at the collapsed building where she had sought shelter. The roof was gone, the structure reduced to rubble. Cyclone Tracy ...

A destroyed United Nations Land Rover, which lay in the buffer zone between the Greek Cypriot and Turkish-controlled areas of Cyprus for decades, has arrived at the Australian War Memorial in Canberra ...

The Australian Army set up 1 Australian Logistics Support Group (1ALSG) at Vung Tau to provide support for the inland combat-area base at Nui Dat in Vietnam, and to combine and coordinate a variety of ...

These understated descriptions of the arduous route from Kokoda to Buna appear on a map of the Kokoda Trail held by the Australian War Memorial, part of the Memorial’s map digitisation project. Before ...

On 28 November 1942, Adelaide’s regular convoy-escort duties were dramatically interrupted.While steaming along the coast of Western Australia with the Dutch ship Heemskerck, Adelaide encountered an ...