Warsaw’s Jewish history museum has opened an exhibition featuring the works of a renowned contemporary Polish artist that confront the pervasive presence of the Holocaust in Poland, where Germany carried out its destruction of Europe's Jews.
To mark the 50th anniversary of the Battle of Long Khanh, one of Australia’s last battles during the Vietnam War, the Royal Australian Mint has released a new commemorative coin.
Blue Mountains council recently finished repairing and restoring three local war memorials which had deteriorated because of wear and tear over time, and vandalism.
They say nothing can inform your present and future as much as remembering the past, an act which Australians partake in regularly with the remembrance of the soldiers who sacrificed their lives.
New research into the little-known participation of Indigenous Australians in the Boer War has prompted the official dedication of a memorial grave in Sydney to one Aboriginal veteran forgotten by history.
Army musician and sax player, Jaime Grech, joins classical saxophonist, Christina Leonard, in a musical triumph over one of our most contentious wars ever.
The Australian Embassy in Greece proudly presents the photographic exhibition ‘Mates and Allies – A tribute to the bonds forged between Australians and Greeks during the Battle of Crete’ at Athens International Airport.
War memorials in the region will get a facelift in the latest round of funding being made available as part of the NSW Government’s Community War Memorials Fund.
A sad tale for Taree RSL Sub-branch finally has a happy ending. A new soldier statue was recently installed at the Taree War Memorial, more than one year after the original was desecrated by vandals. The replacement, created by Edsteins, was funded through a Department of Veterans' Affairs (DVA) grant and Club Taree donation.
David Campbell Church was just 20 years old in 1944 when his fighter plan crashed in the Norwegian city of Bergen. Thanks to the kindness of two strangers halfway across the world, David's dog tags came home.
The remains of an unknown soldier from the First World War has been identified following an investigation by Fallen Diggers Incorporated, the Commonwealth War Graves Commission and the Army’s Unrecovered War Casualties division this week.
War memorials are a place of pride across the length and breadth of Australia, ranging from the grand to the humble. They are a central feature of many country towns. But this Anzac Day, as services begin to take place again, another form of commemoration is in danger of being forgotten.
What started as a unique way to raise funds for a charity in Vietnam has turned into something just as significant for veterans in the NSW Southern Highlands.
Until 1967, First Nations people were not counted in the national population, which meant Indigenous Australians who fought in the Boer War, World War I, including at Gallipoli, and World War II were fighting for a country that did not acknowledge or recognise them.
Reading the long-lost poetry of an unknown Australian prisoner of war on the Burma-Thai “death railway”, the sense of fierce longing strikes the heart.
Charles Burgess was born in Vienna, Austria on March 31, 1917, a year before the end of the First World War, and passed away in Bellingen, NSW, on April 4 this year, four days after turning 104.
Emotions ran free at a special event in Ulladulla on Friday just gone. Voices cracked and tears flowed as plaques on Ulladulla's Frontline Services Memorial obelisk were officially unveiled.