South Vietnam. 1968-05. Members of the 1st Armoured Regiment, Royal Australian Armoured Corps (RAAC), on the move with their Centurion tanks from Nui Dat to Fire Support Base (FSB) Coral in Bien Hoa ...

Collection of papers of General Sir John Monash, chiefly 1914-1919 covering his wartime military career and his related activities as Director-General, Repatriation and Demobilisation from 1918-1919.

The Dawn Service. It is often suggested that the Dawn Service observed on Anzac Day has its origins in a military routine still followed by the Australian Army. The half-light of dawn was one of the ...

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The Australian War Memorial is committed to supporting the employment and career development of people with disability. Our participation in APS RecruitAbility means we will progress an applicant with ...

The Lewis Type 92 aircraft machine gun is a gas operated, air cooled, full automatic only weapon that fires from an open bolt. It has a fixed barrel surrounded by an aluminum radiator which is ...

The Kokoda Trail was a path that linked Ower's Corner, approximately 40 km north-east of Port Moresby, and the small village of Wairopi, on the northern side of the Owen Stanley mountain range. From ...

Australian First World War recruitment poster. This poster was part of the First World War Australian Government Recruiting Kit. Depicts a group of armed German soldiers threatening a young man pinned ...

Anzac biscuits: a link to the Anzac Day Commemoration Committee (Qld) web site that contains a discussion of the evolution of the Anzac biscuit; Recipes for Anzac wafers and biscuits; Make hard tack ...

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These statistics were sourced from the appendix of On the offensive: the Australian Army in the Vietnam War 1967–1968. For details of the total number of Australians who died during the Vietnam War, ...

Although there had been some trench warfare in the American Civil War of 1861 - 65, and the Russian-Japanese War of 1904 - 05, it wasn't until the First World War that fixed trench warfare became the ...