In the darkness of the early hours of the morning of 9 August 1942 the RAN heavy cruiser HMAS Canberra was severely damaged off Guadalcanal (Solomon Islands) in a surprise attack by a powerful ...

Map showing the course taken by Australian, Canadian and French corps in the 8 August offensive, from Wartime, No. 3, Spring 1998 - the official magazine of the Australian War Memorial. At 4.20 am the ...

The Battle of Amiens was the crucial Allied breakthrough counter-offensive, launched on the Western Front around Amiens, in the Somme sector. An "all arms battle", the Allies made effective use of ...

One of the most famous assaults of the Gallipoli campaign, the Battle of Lone Pine was originally intended as a diversion from attempts by New Zealand and Australian units to force a breakout from the ...

Western Australia's 2/4th Machine Gun Battalion was raised at the end of 1940 as one of the support units for the ill-fated 8th Division. Formed with men from across the state, they all came together ...

Part of the 17th Brigade of the 6th Australian Division, the 2/7th Battalion opened its headquarters at the Royal Melbourne Showgrounds on 25 October 1939. It relocated to the newly-established camp ...

The 2/9th, the first Queensland battalion of the Second AIF, assembled for the first time at Redbank Camp in Brisbane on 13 November 1939. It became part of the 18th Brigade of the 6th Australian ...

“We have brought a national icon back home and next year people will get to see G for George as you have never seen her before in new Anzac Hall,” Matt Anderson, Director of the Australian War ...

The Third Battle of Ypres was the major British offensive in Flanders in 1917. It was planned to break through the strongly fortified and in-depth German defences enclosing the Ypres salient, a ...

Isador Goodman’s New Guinea Fantasy is more than a piece of music, but a tribute to sacrifice, solidarity and the power of art in wartime. In the most difficult circumstances, Goodman brought light ...

On Thursday 31 July, the iconic fuselage of the Lancaster bomber G for George will make its historic return to the Memorial, ahead of its installation as the centrepiece of the new Australians in ...

Over 22,000 Australian servicemen and almost forty nurses were captured by the Japanese. Most were captured early in 1942 when Japanese forces captured Malaya, Singapore, New Britain, and the ...