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 ...

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 ...

A crowd of more than 32,000 people gathered in the dark this morning at the Australian War Memorial for the Anzac Day Dawn Service, commemorating the 109th anniversary of the Gallipoli landing. The ...

While most of us are familiar with the harrowing experiences of Australian prisoners of war abroad, knowledge of those held in prisoner of war camps in Australia is far less common. At the peak of the ...

For Hercules pilot Ian Frame, the Babylift flights were ‘just another task in a long string of tasks’. In typically assiduous C-130 style, the crews of Detachment S simply got on with the job, not ...

“Who is Gavin Long?” asked General Sir Richard O’Connor in November 1950 after reading Long’s draft chapters on the British offensive in the first Libyan campaign in 1940–41. The general thought it a ...

Mr Michael Bell is a Ngunnawal/Gomeroi man and is the Indigenous Liaison Officer at the Australian War Memorial; a position he has held since 2016. During this time his priority has been focused on ...

Rachel Caines is a historian in the Military History Section. She joined the Australian War Memorial in December 2022, having previously worked as a researcher, tutor, and administrator in the ...