The 2/43rd Australian Infantry Battalion was formed on 17 July 1940, after the start of the Second World War. It was ...

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After the fall of Singapore on 15 February 1942, Changi became home to some 15,000 Australian prisoners of war. Internees of ...

The Possums in front of one of their planes used for reconnaissance missions, Vung Tau Special Zone, Vietnam, c 1965-75. Photograph by Denis Stanley Gibbons. P04669.186 In 1965, an army aviation unit, ...

I am Major Angela Uphill, and I have had the privilege of serving as a Physiotherapist in the Royal Australian Army Medical Corps for 22 years. My service has taken me across the country, as well as ...

It is a great privilege to be with you this morning to honour the service and sacrifice of Australians over many generations… to our nation… in all wars, and in the sometimes-fractious peace that ...

The Australian War Memorial in Canberra will commemorate the service and sacrifice of St Kilda resident and Mawson polar expeditionist Captain Edward Frederick Robert Bage at the Last Post Ceremony on ...

Place Oceania: Australia, Victoria, Melbourne, St Kilda Road, Shrine of Remembrance ...

As part of the final throes of the British Army's Arras offensive, a renewed attempt was made to secure the fortified village of Bullecourt in the period 3-17 May. The Australian 2nd Division (5th and ...

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