In 1995 the Royal Australian Corps of Signals commissioned Ken McFadyen to complete a series of paintings that portray the work of the Royal Australian Corps of Signals on UN duty overseas. An image ...

In between field returns and daily reports in the Second World War diaries of the 8 Australian Advanced Ordnance Depot (8 AAOD), for example, are issues of The Troppo Tribune. The “News Mouthpiece” of ...

In fact, Gordon Naley was not Afghan, but an Indigenous Australian. His mother was a Mirning woman: a people whose ...

An Australian war journalist, Pat Burgess, said of Burchett: No correspondent was better loved by his colleagues or more bitterly detested. Wilfred Burchett's career as a journalist reporting from war ...

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 ...

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, ...

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 ...

Born into modest circumstances, and after leaving school at an early age, Albert Coates undertook night study and excelled as a student. In 1914 he enlisted in the 7th Battalion as a medical orderly ...

The Napier Waller Art Prize is open to all current and former service personnel in the Australian Defence Force. The prize encourages artistic excellence, promotes the transformative power of ...

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 ...

This volume covers the last six months of the war, beginning with the weeks of "peaceful penetration" (when the AIF almost alone was constantly on the offensive), then the model battle of Hamel on 4 ...

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 ...