Sinking of the SS Barunga, after it was hit by a torpedo from a German submarine 150 miles south ...
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 ...
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 ...
The artworks in the Hall of Memory had not been installed by the end of the Second World War, but it was decided that the stained-glass windows would still be dedicated to the First World War, and the ...
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 ...
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 ...
Preface by Professor Robert O'Neill Volume I – The Story of ANZAC from the outbreak of war to the end of the first phase of the Gallipoli Campaign, May 4, 1915 (11th edition, 1941) Volume II – The ...
Depicts a still life of flowers and foliage in a biscuit tin. Lambert picked these flowers from the site of 'Beachy Bill', and painted them when the Australian Historical Mission was held up by rain. ...
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The Women's Auxiliary Australian Air Force (WAAAF) was formed in March 1941 after considerable lobbying by women keen to serve and by the Chief of the Air Staff who wanted to release male personnel ...
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