Sister Mona Margaret Wilton was one of twelve Australian Army nurses who died at sea after the bombing of the SS Vyner Brooke ...

The most highly decorated soldier in the Australian army. Dashing, brave and handsome, Murray rose from the ranks to command a battalion. He described his occupation as a “bushman” when he joined the ...

An Australian actor serving with the RAAF. Goffage’s air force service was interrupted when he was seconded to act in a number of films, including some famous Australian war classics. John Goffage had ...

The inland regional town of Albury offered various advantages as a hub of military activity during the Second World War. The ...

Breaker Morant is famous for the manner of his death, but little is known of his birth. He claimed to be the son of Admiral Sir George Digby Morant of Devon but it is likely that he was Edwin Murrant, ...

Ranks Held Capt and QMR, Captain, Honorary Lieutenant, Lance Corporal, Quartermaster Honorary Captain ...

On Tuesday 11 November 2025 the Australian War Memorial commemorated Remembrance Day with the National Ceremony. A recording of the ceremony is now available to watch. Watch the recording on ABC iView ...

Vivian Bullwinkel was born in Kapunda, South Australia, and trained as a nurse in Broken Hill, New South Wales. In 1941, aged 25, she enlisted in the Australian Army Nursing Service. She was posted to ...

Jan O’Herne was born in 1923 at Bandoeng, in central Java. After the Japanese invasion of the NEI, she, her mother, and her two sisters were interned, along with thousands of other Dutch women and ...

Thousands of English war brides came to Australia after the First World War, but one would become notorious as a leading Sydney criminal. Matilda Twiss married Sapper James Devine, a former Queensland ...

This Member of the Order of the British Empire (OBE) was awarded to Reg Saunders for his long and dedicated service to the Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander community. Reginald Walter Saunders was ...

The son of a South Australian member of parliament, Shannon enlisted in the RAAF as soon as he was old enough. After completing his flying training he was sent to England and posted to No. 106 ...