Anzac Day is our national day of commemoration. On Friday 25 April 2025, the Australian War Memorial marked the 110th anniversary of the Gallipoli landings and commemorated all Australians who have ...

The Flanders poppy has long been a part of Remembrance Day, the ritual that marks the Armistice of 11 November 1918, and is also increasingly being used as part of Anzac Day observances. During the ...

Major General Steve Gower This paper deals with command in New Guinea in the period August to November 1942. It follows on from David Horner's account of events at the grand strategic level. I will be ...

Designed by German internee and artist George Teltscher, these notes were made and used at No. 7 Internment Camp at Hay in central New South Wales. The 25 sheep represent the camp’s 25 huts. Camp ...

Series 7: Leaflets, c. 2003 - 2008 Description: This collection of leaflets is dominated by notices of anti-war demonstrations in Australia. Also included are propaganda leaflets, media releases, ...

Immediately after the battles for Kereviz Dere and Gully Ravine on Gallipoli in July 1915, the question facing Turkish commanders was: would the allies continue their bloody attacks or would they give ...

Note: the numbers given for wounded, sick and injured represent the number of “woundings” or of sickness and injury, not the number of wounded, sick, or injured men. It was common for men to be ...

Volume XI – Australia During the War Introduction by Michael McKernan The Australian War Memorial would like to acknowledge the kind permission of the author and the assistance of the University of ...

The great 19th century English philosopher, John Stuart Mill concluded two essential pre-requisites for the existence and sustenance of a nation. The first he said is that a people would want to be ...

{33} In analyzing humour of the Second World War, it may be too easy to read into the material issues that are more salient to the present day researcher than to the soldiers of the Second World War, ...

It was not until the 1980s that the Pacific war really began to dominate Australian narratives of the Second World War. Two notable precursors, however, were Russell Braddon’s The Naked Island (1951) ...

The intermediary stage of the evacuation On 8 December 1915 General William Birdwood received a telegram (see copy here) direct from Lord Kitchener communicating the decision "to evacuate the ...