Doris Evelyn Jeffs was born in Perth in June 1922. She joined the Women’s Royal Australian Naval Service (WRANS) at Fremantle, Western Australia on the 8 February 1943 and was posted to the local ...

Built in 1928, the SS Vyner Brooke was a British-registered cargo vessel of 1,670 tons. She was named after the Third Rajah of Sarawak - Sir Charles Vyner Brooke. Up until the outbreak of war with the ...

To enable anyone in Australia or overseas to view the Last Post Ceremony, it is broadcast live daily on the Memorial's dedicated Last Post Ceremony YouTube Channel ...

Memorial Boxes are engaging learning resources, filled with real and replica uniforms, equipment, artefacts, and more. They are supported by a range of case studies and activities which are available ...

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 ...

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 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 ...

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 ...

This is one in a series of blogs that covers the basic aspects of Australian uniforms during the First World War. There is a great diversity between nursing uniforms of the First World War. This ...

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 ...

It has become known as Australia’s blackest night. On 19 July 1916, the troops of the 5th Australian and 61st British Divisions attacked a strong German position, at the centre of which stood the ...