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Celebrating all our heroes 14 Mar 2013 | 03:26 am
This is the opinion piece I wrote for the Canberra Times; it appears in the 14 March 2013 edition of the paper. Success in life requires three things – show humanity toward others, nurture the inner i...
‘An upright, sterling character’ Sergeant Douglas Bernard Matthew Adams, 10 Battalion, AIF 12 Mar 2013 | 05:08 am
c March 1915. Sergeant Douglas Bernard Matthew Adams, D Company, 10 Battalion, AIF. Photograph taken just prior to embarkation for service abroad. H06022 During my first visit to Gallipoli in May 1996...
From the Film and Sound Collection – The Great Arrival/My Hero 13 Feb 2013 | 06:57 am
The Great Arrival/My Hero // This footage is an edited down version of a recent donation to the Australian War Memorial - F11790 - entitled ‘The Great Arrival.’ The footage shows Arthur John Carmody...
War isn’t the way it looks back here: Free Sunday Film Screening Series 6 Feb 2013 | 05:24 am
To complement Remember Me: The lost diggers of Vignacourt and its unique images of Australians on the Western Front, the Australian War Memorial is showing five classic films that all present distinc...
Would you like to volunteer at one of the world’s great museums? 30 Jan 2013 | 06:55 am
The Australian War Memorial is looking for people who would like to train to become Voluntary Guides. Applications close soon. If you enjoy working with the public, are confident about speaking in pu...
For Australia’s Heroes – the other ‘Australia Day’, 30 July 1915. 22 Jan 2013 | 08:26 am
‘It is unlikely that ‘Australia Day’ will ever be wholly forgotten by any who were privileged to take part in that magnificent outburst of giving. […] It seemed as if the whole community had abandoned...
Happy 5th birthday, Flickr Commons 16 Jan 2013 | 10:29 am
January 16, 2013 marks the 5th anniversary of the Commons on Flickr. The pool of images has grown to more than 250,000 from 56 different libraries, archives, and museums around the world. To celebrate...
Private Carl Renner 14 Jan 2013 | 03:35 am
My name is Thomas Mittwollen. I’m 16 years old and I am in year 10 at Bulli High School on the South Coast. I am currently doing work experience at the Australian War Memorial. In December I was put i...
Summer programs at the Memorial 21 Dec 2012 | 06:38 am
Summer programs at the Memorial Things are starting to heat up in the Capital which can only mean that summer is well underway and the New Year is approaching fast. The Memorial has some exciting acti...
At war for Christmas 20 Dec 2012 | 07:19 am
On Christmas Eve 1914, soldiers of the British, French and German armies were hunkered down in trenches on the Western Front, their thoughts on their loved ones at home. As night fell, the sound of Ge...
