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Syrian Campaign

The Syrian Campaign is one of the least-known Australian operations of the Second World War. Between 7 June and 11 July 1941, Australian troops, principally from the 7th Division, fought as part of an ...
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Kokoda Trail Campaign

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 ...
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The charge of the 3rd Light Horse Brigade at the Nek, 7 August 1915

Place Middle East: Ottoman Empire, Turkey, Dardanelles, Gallipoli, Anzac Area (Gallipoli), Nek (Gallipoli) ...
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Official Opening of Anzac Hall and the Atrium

Last week, the Australian War Memorial welcomed guests to the official opening of the new Anzac Hall, with the Prime Minister and Governor-General joining the occasion to mark this significant ...
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Digitising the AWM’s Mega Maps

The digitisation of mega maps is an essential component of the Memorial's ongoing project to digitise some 1,900 selected maps in our collections. Through the process of digitisation, collections once ...
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Volume VI – The New Guinea Offensives (1st edition, 1961)

This volume relates how the Australian Army, supported by Allied naval and air forces, and with the help of some American regiments, drove the Japanese out of most of the mainland of Australian New ...
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Volume IV – The Japanese Thrust (1st edition, 1957)

This volume of the army series of the Australian official war history relates mainly to the operations on Malaya in the first ten weeks of the war against Japan. It has, however, an introductory ...
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Volume III – Tobruk and El Alamein (1st edition, 1966)

This volume's main theme is the 9th Australian Division's contribution in 1941-42 to the defeat in North Africa of the German and Italian Army commanded by Field Marshal Rommel. In March 1941, soon ...
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Volume II – Greece, Crete and Syria (1st edition, 1953)

This second volume of the army series of the official history of Australia in the war of 1939-1945 describes the campaigns in Greece, Crete and Syria in 1941. In Greece the main British force in the ...
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Volume VII – The Final Campaigns (1st edition, 1963)

This volume concludes the Army Series. It describes the Australian Army campaigns in the last months of 1944 and in 1945. It tells the full story of the fighting in Bougainville, New Britain, round ...
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Nominal roll of Australian Imperial Force who left Australia for service abroad

Copying Provisions Copyright restrictions apply. Only personal, non-commercial, research and study use permitted. Permission of copyright holder required for any ...
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Steel lifeboat from HMT Ascot (A33) used in the landings at Gallipoli by 13 Battalion AIF

The number 6 white painted steel lifeboat from the British transport ship HMT (A33) Ascot. The lifeboat has a rivetted beam along its keel, and the steel sheets that the hull is constructed from are ...