Doris Evelyn Jeffs was born in Perth in June 1922. She joined the Women’s Royal Australian Naval Service (WRANS) at Fremantle, Western Australia on the 8 February 1943 and was posted to the local ...

The human toll at Broome was enormous. Most of the flying boats had been crammed with Dutch refugees, and burning fuel on the water, as well as the strong tidal currents in Roebuck Bay, made escape ...

Established in 2018, the Napier Waller Art Prize is named after Mervyn Napier Waller, an Australian artist who enlisted in the Australian Imperial Force in August 1915. In May 1917, he was wounded in ...

Over 400,000 people enlisted to serve for Australia in the First World War. While some volunteers were rejected because of their age, height, or size, the Defence Act stated that people “not ...

British settlement of Australia began as a penal colony governed by a captain of the Royal Navy. Until the 1850s, when local forces began to be recruited, British regular troops garrisoned the ...

Anzac Day is our national day of commemoration. On Saturday 25 April 2026, the Australian War Memorial will mark the 111th anniversary of the Gallipoli landings and commemorate all Australians who ...

In 1919 official war historian and Memorial founder Charles Bean sketched a design for the building he envisioned would become the Australian War Memorial. That design has been digitally created here ...

Dioramas or "picture models", as they were first called, have been a part of the Memorial’s displays since its inception. They were first suggested by official war artist Will Dyson and official war ...

Tattoos are a conversation starter. Many members and veterans of the Australian Defence Forces have tattoos, and while their reasons for getting tattooed are as varied as the people themselves, ...

The First World War Galleries present the story of Australia in the Great War chronologically, covering all major theatres of operations: Gallipoli the Western Front Sinai and Palestine and the war at ...

Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people please be advised that the following pages contain the names, images and objects of deceased people. Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples have a ...

On the morning of 16 June 1948 three European estate managers were murdered in two separate incidents in the Malaysian state of Perak by members of the Malayan Communist Party (MCP). That evening, the ...