In January 1916, William boarded the troopship Commonwealth and returned to Australia. While he convalesced at home in ...

In late 2019, the gallery development team formed and embarked on the journey of developing 7,000 square metres of new galleries for the Australian War Memorial, tasked with telling the stories of ...

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 ...

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 ...

Before gaining independence in 1975, the territory of Papua New Guinea was administered by Australia, which meant that the peoples of Papua and New Guinea were an indigenous population under ...

And welcome to everyone here at the Australian War Memorial, and all those watching this broadcast across the country. Among the many honoured guests, I am so pleased to welcome the scores of school ...

The new Main Entrance Foyer, designed by Studio.SC, was officially opened to the public on 3 February 2025. Situated directly below the existing forecourt, visitors can enter from the Sculpture Garden ...

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 ...

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 ...

At its closest point, New Guinea is 160 km from the Australian mainland. During the Second World War, it was of strategic importance to Australian security. Australian forces had seized German New ...

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 ...