Papua New Guinea’s 50th anniversary of independence from Australia on 16 September 2025 provides an opportunity to reflect on ...

Exercise Puk Puk Papua New Guinea 2024. Australian Army Engineers repairing a bridge at Wewak, New Guinea, about a 5km from Moem Barracks on the way to Wewak. Photographer David Whittaker.

MacLeod served as a nursing officer in the Australian Army, with peacekeeping deployments that left an indelible mark. As ...

Offering a sheltered harbour, Milne Bay, on the south-eastern tip of Papua was selected for development as an Allied base - the key component of which was three airstrips - in 1942. These facilities ...

Two portraits by Australia’s first official war artist, Will Dyson, have been donated to the Australian War Memorial by the family of Victoria Cross recipient William Dunstan. The works, one of ...

Measurement Overall: 66.2 cm x 99.9 cm; sheet: 63.6 cm x 97.2 cm ...

Following the capture of Pozières and the German lines at the windmill east of the village in late July and early August 1916, the three Australian divisions of I Anzac Corps attacked northwards along ...

Applications are now open for the Australian War Memorial’s Summer Vacation Scholar Scheme. Applications open on Thursday 28 August 2026 and close at 5 pm (AEST) on Sunday 21 September 2025. The ...

Service records, also known as dossiers, are the authoritative source of information about an individual's military service. Service records contain information about them on enlistment and throughout ...

The Nominal Roll of Vietnam Veterans was prepared by the Department of Veterans' Affairs (DVA). The roll contains information from the Service records of more than 60,000 military members who served ...

At the outbreak of the First World War, the number of people volunteering to enlist for the Australian Imperial Force (AIF) was so high that recruitment officers were forced to turn people away. As ...

In early 1916, life in the trenches was considered more comfortable by many Australian troops. For those who had served on Gallipoli, the conditions on the Western Front seemed very different. Billets ...