Early in the Second World War, the Royal Australian Air Force (RAAF) recognised the need to quickly prepare for a new kind of ...

Thomas Blamey, born near Wagga Wagga on 24 January 1884, became the first Australian army officer to reach the rank of field marshal. Originally a teacher, Blamey received a commission in the ...

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, ...

Even sixty years after his death Damien Parer remains one of Australia's most well-known combat cameramen. He was born on 1 August 1912 at Malvern in Melbourne but was educated largely in Bathurst, at ...

Their activities are secret. Their missions are classified. Their identities are protected. They operate in secrecy to protect Australia’s people and national interests, and to support its allies.

“[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 ...

The Australian Field Ambulance has played a vital role during times of conflict, assessing injuries, providing initial medical care, and removing the wounded from combat zones. During the Vietnam War, ...

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 ...

During the First World War the principle long arms issued to Australian Forces were the Short Magazine Lee Enfield No 1 Mk III (SMLE No 1 Mk III) and the Short magazine Lee Enfield No 1 Mk III* (SMLE ...

The V2 rocket was the first ballistic guided missile to use advanced rocket technology and to be used in war by the Nazi’s against the Allies. Developed by Wernher von Braun in 1936, it was developed ...

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 ...

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 ...