The 2/43rd Australian Infantry Battalion was formed on 17 July 1940, after the start of the Second World War. It was ...

This website contains war-related material, including images which some people may find confronting and disturbing.

After the fall of Singapore on 15 February 1942, Changi became home to some 15,000 Australian prisoners of war. Internees 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 ...

It is a great privilege to be with you this morning to honour the service and sacrifice of Australians over many generations… to our nation… in all wars, and in the sometimes-fractious peace that ...

Show JPG document of AWM133 19 - Nominal roll of Australian Imperial Force who left Australia for service abroad, 1914-18 War: Gaal H L - Glen G W (444.06 KB JPG) (file) ...

The Australian War Memorial in Canberra will commemorate the service and sacrifice of St Kilda resident and Mawson polar expeditionist Captain Edward Frederick Robert Bage at the Last Post Ceremony on ...

This volume covers the period immediately following the disastrous Gallipoli landing of 25 April 1915, up until the evacuation of Helles in January of the following year. It deals in detail with the ...

The Dawn Service provides an opportunity for quiet reflection and returns to the Parade Ground for the first time since 2021. Prior to the service, beginning at 4:30 am, representatives from the ...

As part of the final throes of the British Army's Arras offensive, a renewed attempt was made to secure the fortified village of Bullecourt in the period 3-17 May. The Australian 2nd Division (5th and ...

*A revised estimate, dated January 26, 1919, in the same book gives the total number of Australians killed as 8,709. This larger figure is the accepted official estimate of the total number killed. In ...