Explore more than 7,000 objects on display from the National Collection. The Memorial's galleries and exhibitions explore Australia's involvement in major conflicts and help to tell Australia’s continuing story of service, sacrifice and military history.

Behind the scenes. Several teams across the Memorial work on different aspects of the digitisation project. They include the Research Centre (which manages the archival and printed collections), the Photograph, Film and Sound section (that includes the Multimedia team, which does a lot of the digitisation) and Collection Services (which …

The Memorial has an extensive collection of photographs and photographic material. The project is digitising photographic negatives made of glass, nitrate and acetate that are at risk of deterioration.

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 times favoured for launching an attack. Soldiers in defensive positions were woken in the dark before dawn, so by the time first light crept across the battlefield they were awake, alert, and ...

Researching Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander military service; Researching names on an honour board ; Local information sources about Australians at war

Barcode Call Suffix Volume Part Year Location Status; AWM000642: R 355.1342 W183R: Reference: On Shelf: 07633: MHT: Staff Use Only

This series comprises printed nominal rolls of individual Australian Imperial Force units and reinforcements as they embarked from Australia during the First World War.

Remembering 1942: The end of the Kokoda campaign. On this day in 1942 Australian troops were closing on Kokoda, the village on the northern side of the Owen Stanley Range which gave its name to one of the epic battles of the war in the Pacific.

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The Roll of Honour records and commemorates members of the Australian armed forces who have died during or as a result of war service, or for Post-1945 conflicts, warlike service, non-warlike service and certain peacetime operations.