Fifty years ago, on Christmas Day 1974, Judith Rowe stood in shock, staring at the collapsed building where she had sought shelter. The roof was gone, the structure reduced to rubble. Cyclone Tracy had unleashed its catastrophic force on Darwin, leaving the city in ruins and a nation in shock.
From Australian War Memorial
“Edith Blake was born on the 22nd of September 1885 in the Sydney suburb of Darlington. Known affectionately as Edie, she was the eldest of three daughters born to Charles Blake and his wife Kate.”
From Australian War Memorial
On Remembrance Day in Latrobe, Tasmania, Chief of Navy Vice Admiral Mark Hammond AO RAN, alongside Tasmanian Deputy Premier Guy Barnett MHA, Latrobe Council’s Mayor Peter Freshney, and Sheean’s nephew, Garry Ivory, unveiled a life-sized statue of Edward “Teddy” Sheean VC as part of the commemoration service.
From Australian Government Department of Veterans' Affairs
One of the Australian War Memorial’s most beloved sculptures has reclaimed pride of place at the new Main Entrance having been carefully craned into position on Friday morning.
From Australian War Memorial
On its return home from Singapore after Indo-Pacific Endeavour, HMAS Adelaide sailed to Bangka Island where personnel commemorated sacrifices made by nurses in the Second World War.
From Contact Magazine
Works are well underway on a like-for-like replacement of one of the iconic statues in Ballarat. The Boer War Memorial Statue was removed from the Sturt Street Gardens in October 2024 for a replacement statue to be made.
From City of Ballarat
For more than a century, on Anzac Day Australians have recognised those who have served our country in wars, conflicts and peace operations.
From Australian Government Department of Veterans' Affairs
Sydney’s Anzac Memorial will celebrate its 90th anniversary this Sunday with a public open day with tours, performances and talks for members of the public to enjoy, concluding with a twilight commemoration service to mark the milestone.
From Australian Seniors News
The Australian War Memorial in Canberra will next week pay tribute to the service and sacrifice of Leeton airman Oswald Mountford who died in Britain in the late stages of the Second World War.
From Region Riverina
The National Archive of Australia has digitised over a million service records from World War II, many of which haven’t been seen for 80 years.
The project has given a new perspective on women’s service during the conflict.
From ABC News
Remembrance Day, formerly known as Armistice Day, commemorates the cease-fire at the end of World War I (1914 – 1918), 106 years ago.
From Northern Beaches Advocate
Memorials to Victoria's World War I diggers have become something of an obsession for Clayton Tremlett.
From ABC News
Thirroul’s First World War memorial will undergo some much-needed conservation work thanks to almost $10,000 in funding from the NSW Government.
From Region Illawarra
Have you got a bit of military memorabilia that you would like to share? Then the Mount Isa RSL sub-branch may be the place to go.
From The North West Star
In September, a new Memorial Wall to 569 servicemen who died in the Second World War was officially unveiled at the former Royal Australian Air Force Station Maryborough in Queensland.
From Australian Government Department of Veterans' Affairs
In October 1944, a large combined United States and Allied fleet, also including Royal Australian Navy vessels, launched an assault to begin liberating the Philippines from Japanese occupation.
The fleet, in excess of 600 vessels, was about to prevail in the largest naval battle of the Second World War, the Battle of Leyte Gulf.
From Australian Government Department of Veterans' Affairs
In the middle of a lush green park, resting under shady trees stands a statue of a man, who became one of Australia's most decorated soldiers.
From ABC News
It was the spring of 1943 when an A9-317 Beaufort Bomber aircraft took off into the afternoon sky.
With five people on board, the aircraft was scheduled to patrol for enemy ships from the RAAF Base in Busselton, 220 kilometres south of Perth, on September 9.
From ABC News
On 14 September 1947, Australians were among the world's first peacekeepers deployed into the field, when working alongside personnel from Belgium, Britain, China, France and the United States, they help Indonesia gain independence from the Netherlands. This heralded the start of United Nations (UN) peacekeeping operations.
From Australian Government Department of Veterans' Affairs
A new war memorial commemorating the Second World War Battle of Crete was unveiled in Perth’s King Park.
The memorial honours the almost 800 Australians who were killed or wounded and more than 3,000 who were captured defending the Greek island, which German forces invaded in a massive parachute assault in May 1941.
From Australian Government Department of Veterans' Affairs
The Australian War Memorial in Canberra will be commemorating the service and sacrifice of Vietnam veteran Lance Corporal Jack Jewry at the Last Post Ceremony on Sunday 18 August, Vietnam Veterans’ Day.
From Australian War Memorial
The Greater Geelong community will recognise people who served and died in the Vietnam War with a memorial service and march this Vietnam Veteran’s Day.
From Ocean Grove Voice
A newly installed memorial to Australian airmen who lost their lives in a World War II plane crash in the Dornoch Firth, has been unveiled.
From The Northern Times
While alongside at Pearl Harbor, crew of HMAS Sydney toured the historical battleship USS Missouri and the USS Arizona memorial.
From Australian Government Defence