Military History Section (L-R): Michael Kelly, David Sutton, Garth O'Connell, Karl James, Lachlan Grant, Tom Rogers, Craig ...

Private John Leak VC, of the 9th Battalion surrounded by friends and well-wishers outside Buckingham Palace on the occasion of being awarded the Victoria Cross. Pte Leak is holding the hand of most ...

Most Australians called 15 August “VP” Day – Victory in the Pacific – rather than “VJ” – Victory over Japan. The governments of Britain, the United States and New Zealand preferred “VJ”: hence the ...

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 ...

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 ...

The standard bayonet for the SMLE No 1 MK III and the SMLE No 1 Mk III* rifle was the Pattern 1907 Bayonet. Every SMLE rifle produced had a bayonet with a matching serial number issued with it.

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 ...

Prime Minister Anthony Albanese has marked a major milestone at the Australian War Memorial by officially opening its new Main Entrance.

Today marks the anniversary of the Fall of Singapore, one of the worst military disasters to befall Australia, and one of the greatest defeats in British history. Since 1923 Singapore had been ...

Eighty years ago, on 15 August 1945, Emperor Hirohito publicly announced Japan’s acceptance of the Allies’ terms and Japan’s surrender. Nazi Germany had surrendered to the Allies three months earlier.

The Honourable Kim Beazley AC has been appointed as Chair of the Australian War Memorial Council. Mr Beazley, a former Labor Leader, Defence Minister and Governor of Western Australia first served as ...

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 ...