Australian Imperial Force unit war diaries, 1914-18 War - AWM4 Class 23 - Infantry < Previous Record | Next Record > Accession Number RCDIG1000583 Collection number AWM4 23/37 Collection type ...

Sinking of the SS Barunga, after it was hit by a torpedo from a German submarine 150 miles south west of the Scilly Isles. Barunga was on its way to Australia with 800 sick and wounded on board and ...

This volume describes the fighting on land in the South-West Pacific from mid-1942 to March 1943, including the critical operations in the Owen Stanley mountains, at Milne Bay and round Buna, Gona and ...

The Australian War Memorial holds a Private Records collection that contains a letter written by Alf Garland in 1991 while he was the National President of RSL Australia. If you are a copyright holder ...

Early in the Second World War, the Royal Australian Navy had an urgent need for a new kind of small and versatile ship that ...

Remembrance Day National Ceremony at 10.45 am on the Parade Ground Last Post Ceremony at 4.30 pm in the Commemorative Area The Memorial’s galleries and Commemorative Area will open from 1 pm, tickets ...

Since its inception, the Australian War Memorial has sponsored the production of Australia’s official war histories. In 2016 the Memorial, with funding from the Australian government, began writing ...

This volume deals not only with the Light Horse but also with the new Australian Flying Corps, the logistical basis of the various operations and the general ...

It looked like a scene out of Dante’s Inferno. Bombadier Hugh Clarke, 2/10th Field Regiment In 1943 Japan’s high command decided to build a railway linking Thailand and Burma, to supply its campaign ...

Five Australians, members of a field artillery brigade, passing along a duckboard track over mud and water among gaunt bare tree trunks in the devastated Chateau Wood, a portion of one of the ...

The presence of the radio remained secret to all but four of Wright’s fellow officers who shared living space in Wright’s hut ...

This first volume starts with the outbreak of war and ends on 4 May 1915 - just nine day after the fateful Gallipoli landing. It sets the whole campaign in perspective, starting with the assassination ...