Isador Goodman’s New Guinea Fantasy is more than a piece of music, but a tribute to sacrifice, solidarity and the power of ...

On Thursday 31 July, the iconic fuselage of the Lancaster bomber G for George will make its historic return to the Memorial, ahead of its installation as the centrepiece of the new Australians in ...

“We have brought a national icon back home and next year people will get to see G for George as you have never seen her before in new Anzac Hall,” Matt Anderson, Director of the Australian War ...

Western Australia's 2/4th Machine Gun Battalion was raised at the end of 1940 as one of the support units for the ill-fated 8th Division. Formed with men from across the state, they all came together ...

The 2/1st Battalion was raised at Victoria Barracks, Sydney, on 16 October 1939 as part of the 16th Brigade of the 6th Australian Division. It relocated to the newly-opened Ingleburn Camp on 2 ...

The headquarters of the 2/8th Battalion opened at the Royal Melbourne Showgrounds on 30 October 1939 and four days later relocated to the newly-established camp at Puckapunyal. After completing its ...

Part of the 17th Brigade of the 6th Australian Division, the 2/7th Battalion opened its headquarters at the Royal Melbourne Showgrounds on 25 October 1939. It relocated to the newly-established camp ...

The temporary photographic exhibition, Victory in the Pacific!, is a series of photographs that capture the joy and celebration, coupled with the sombre commemoration which seized Australians, as the ...

Over 22,000 Australian servicemen and almost forty nurses were captured by the Japanese. Most were captured early in 1942 when Japanese forces captured Malaya, Singapore, New Britain, and the ...

LAE, NEW GUINEA. 1945-10-14. A TRUCK AT 2/11 MOBILE LAUNDRY, FIRST ARMY, TRAPPED BY FLOOD WATERS. FOLLOWING HEAVY RAINS THE BUTIBUM RIVER OVERFLOWED ITS BANKS, FLOODED THE ROAD AND ADJOINING UNITS, ...