In fact, Gordon Naley was not Afghan, but an Indigenous Australian. His mother was a Mirning woman: a people whose ...

The Memorial’s Research Centre Digitised Collections team digitises archival collections at risk of deterioration. This process helps to preserve the original items and enables the selected ...

This Member of the Order of the British Empire (OBE) was awarded to Reg Saunders for his long and dedicated service to the Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander community. Reginald Walter Saunders was ...

An Australian actor serving with the RAAF. Goffage’s air force service was interrupted when he was seconded to act in a number of films, including some famous Australian war classics. John Goffage had ...

“The head of the most famous family of soldiers in Australian history.” There were so many members of the Leane family in the 48th Battalion AIF, it was called the “Joan of Arc battalion” – that is, ...

The son of a South Australian member of parliament, Shannon enlisted in the RAAF as soon as he was old enough. After completing his flying training he was sent to England and posted to No. 106 ...

Thousands of English war brides came to Australia after the First World War, but one would become notorious as a leading Sydney criminal. Matilda Twiss married Sapper James Devine, a former Queensland ...

The Napier Waller Art Prize is open to all current and former service personnel in the Australian Defence Force. The prize encourages artistic excellence, promotes the transformative power of ...

Sister Mona Margaret Wilton was one of twelve Australian Army nurses who died at sea after the bombing of the SS Vyner Brooke on 14 February 1942.

This volume covers the last six months of the war, beginning with the weeks of "peaceful penetration" (when the AIF almost alone was constantly on the offensive), then the model battle of Hamel on 4 ...

Transcript of diaries relating to the First World War service of Sister Alice Ross-King, Australian Army Nursing Service. The transcript contains all of Sister Ross-King's diaries covering her wartime ...

Vivian Bullwinkel was born in Kapunda, South Australia, and trained as a nurse in Broken Hill, New South Wales. In 1941, aged 25, she enlisted in the Australian Army Nursing Service. She was posted to ...