Well-planned successful limited Allied action on the Western Front, 4 July 1918. Designed to straighten the Allied line the battle was notable for the careful co-ordination of infantry, artillery, ...

Last week, the Australian War Memorial welcomed guests to the official opening of the new Anzac Hall, with the Prime Minister and Governor-General joining the occasion to mark this significant ...

The digitisation of mega maps is an essential component of the Memorial's ongoing project to digitise some 1,900 selected maps in our collections. Through the process of digitisation, collections once ...

Born in 1873 in Rose Bay, Sydney, John Saumarez Dumaresq was the son of pastoralist William Alexander Dumaresq and his ...

This volume of the army series of the Australian official war history relates mainly to the operations on Malaya in the first ten weeks of the war against Japan. It has, however, an introductory ...

This volume's main theme is the 9th Australian Division's contribution in 1941-42 to the defeat in North Africa of the German and Italian Army commanded by Field Marshal Rommel. In March 1941, soon ...

This volume concludes the Army Series. It describes the Australian Army campaigns in the last months of 1944 and in 1945. It tells the full story of the fighting in Bougainville, New Britain, round ...

The number 6 white painted steel lifeboat from the British transport ship HMT (A33) Ascot. The lifeboat has a rivetted beam along its keel, and the steel sheets that the hull is constructed from are ...

This series comprises the War Diaries created by the units of the Australian Imperial Force (AIF) during the First World War. While on active service, Army headquarters, formations and units were ...

Successful British assault on the Messines-Wytschaete Ridge, a strongly held strategic position on the Western Front, which had been held by the Germans since late 1914. The offensive operation was ...

Tracked Armoured Personnel Carrier with aluminium hull and equipped with a steel T50 (Aust) turret with provision for one .50 inch M2HB and one .30 L3A3 Browning machine guns. There are five rubber ...

15 Squadron was formed late in the Second World War at Camden in New South Wales on 27 January 1944. The unit soon moved to Menangle, where its duties included daily anti-submarine and convoy patrols, ...