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The 2/43rd Australian Infantry Battalion was formed on 17 July 1940, after the start of the Second World War. It was ...

After the fall of Singapore on 15 February 1942, Changi became home to some 15,000 Australian prisoners of war. Internees of ...

I am Major Angela Uphill, and I have had the privilege of serving as a Physiotherapist in the Royal Australian Army Medical Corps for 22 years. My service has taken me across the country, as well as ...

It is a great privilege to be with you this morning to honour the service and sacrifice of Australians over many generations… to our nation… in all wars, and in the sometimes-fractious peace that ...

The Australian War Memorial in Canberra will commemorate the service and sacrifice of St Kilda resident and Mawson polar expeditionist Captain Edward Frederick Robert Bage at the Last Post Ceremony on ...

In 1965, an army aviation unit, comprising small fixed-wing planes and various models of helicopters, was raised to support operations in the Vietnam War. From 1965 to 1972, 161 Independent ...

Place Oceania: Australia, Victoria, Melbourne, St Kilda Road, Shrine of Remembrance ...

The Dawn Service provides an opportunity for quiet reflection and returns to the Parade Ground for the first time since 2021. Prior to the service, beginning at 4:30 am, representatives from the ...

As part of the attempt to seize the Gallipoli Peninsula in order to suppress the Turkish defences guarding the Dardanelles, military landings were made at Cape Helles at the southern tip of the ...

*A revised estimate, dated January 26, 1919, in the same book gives the total number of Australians killed as 8,709. This larger figure is the accepted official estimate of the total number killed. In ...