On a cold Sunday morning in late May 2024, Jeannie Lister and her husband Ron came across a stall specialising in antique and ...

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The Australian Army set up 1 Australian Logistics Support Group (1ALSG) at Vung Tau to provide support for the inland ...

Keith Payne was born at Ingham, Queensland, on 30 August 1933. He attended Ingham State School and afterwards became an apprentice cabinet-maker. During this time he also served with the 31st ...

Poppy's Café is located on the Australian War Memorial grounds. We are open daily from 9am to 3pm (the kitchen is open from 11am to 2pm). We are currently able to accommodate 40 seated patrons inside ...

Neville Howse was born on 26 October 1863 at Stogursey, Somerset, in England. He was educated at Fullard's House School, Taunton, before studying medicine at London Hospital. Howse migrated to New ...

In 1914 the Australian government placed a call for volunteers to fight a predominantly European war in the interests of the ...

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Installation of glass has begun at the Oculus above the new southern entrance of the Australian War Memorial. The glass has completed its long sea… ...

This is the second of two volumes on political events in Australia during the 1939-45 War. The narrative in this volume extends from the entry of Japan into the war until the surrender in August 1945.

This second volume of the army series of the official history of Australia in the war of 1939-1945 describes the campaigns in Greece, Crete and Syria in 1941. In Greece the main British force in the ...

Located near Maitland, in the Hunter Valley in New South Wales, the Rutherford area was first used for training by the citizens force in the years prior to the First World War. It remained in use ...