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Victoria Cross for Australia: Corporal B Roberts-Smith, Special Air Service Regiment, Australian Army

Benjamin 'Ben' Roberts-Smith was born in Perth, Western Australia, in 1978. He joined the Australian Regular Army in 1996 and was posted to the 3rd Battalion, Royal Australian Regiment, with whom he ...
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First Battle of Bullecourt

Bullecourt, a village in northern France, was one of several villages to be heavily fortified and incorporated into the defences of the Hindenburg Line in 1917. In March 1917, the German army had ...
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Unit embarkation nominal rolls, 1914-18 War

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AWM232 A - Malaya

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A New Anzac Documentary

A New Anzac is a four-part documentary series which follows the latest redevelopment of the Australian War Memorial (AWM). Discover the AWM’s unique purpose as a memorial, museum, and archive, and the ...
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Not yet diagnosed: Australian psychiatric casualties during the Kokoda campaign, 1942 by David E Woolley

“[R]eading against the grain, looking for the silences or omissions in the official records and listening to the voices in the film archive … Woolley unearths the SIWs and the NYDs, the impact of ...
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Don't forget me, cobber: the battle of Fromelles

It has become known as Australia’s blackest night. On 19 July 1916, the troops of the 5th Australian and 61st British Divisions attacked a strong German position, at the centre of which stood the ...
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The Australian Imperial Force (AIF) headwear 1914-1918

This is the third in a series of blogs about First World War uniforms and covers the basic aspects of the Australian Imperial Force headwear during the First World War. The most distinctive and ...
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Australian War Memorial flicks on green energy power

The Australian War Memorial has switched on its world-class sustainable green energy project in a purpose-built Central Energy Plant (CEP). The largest closed loop Geothermal Heat Exchange system in ...
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8 August 1918: The Black Day of the German Army

At 4.20 am on 8 August 1918 the Australian Corps — together with the Canadian Corps, and with the support of a British corps on the left and the French First Army on the right — attacked the German ...
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Nancy Grace Augusta Wake

Nancy Wake, a prominent figure in the French Resistance during the Second World War, was born in Wellington, New Zealand, on 30 August 1912. Her family moved to Sydney, where she grew up, when Nancy ...
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'You were never told what you were going to do'

Jack Tredrea was just 24 years old when he parachuted into Borneo in March 1945, armed with only a few maps, some guns and grenades, and a cyanide pill to swallow in case he was captured. “You didn’t ...