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Book your free ticket to enter Learn about the development. Plan your visit. The Australian War Memorial is open to the public. Visitors require timed tickets to enter the Memorial, and also to attend the daily Last Post Ceremony at 4:30 pm in the Commemorative Area. Access to the Memorial entrance and visitor carpark is via Fairbairn Avenue.
Official Histories, Rolls & Unit Diaries - Australian War Memorial
The Official Histories. Official Histories are commissioned by government as the national record of Australia’s involvement in particular conflicts. Often compiled from first hand accounts, unit diaries and a range of other reference data, they are a detailed, chronological record of all services and theatres of conflict.
Visit - Australian War Memorial
Tickets. You need a free two-hour timed ticket to visit the Galleries and Commemorative Area. A separate ticket is required to attend the daily Last Post Ceremony held in the Commemorative Area from 4 pm. Free tickets can be booked online in advance or in person on arrival (availability dependent). Need help with a ticket?
2024 Royal Visit - Australian War Memorial
4 天之前 · 2024 Royal Visit. His Majesty King Charles III and Her Majesty Queen Camilla will visit the Australian War Memorial on 21 October. Their Majesties will pay their respects privately in the Australian War Memorial Commemorative Area and lay a wreath and floral tribute. The public will be able to view Their Majesties when they visit the Aboriginal ...
First World War, 1914-1918 - Australian War Memorial
Details of approximately 330,000 AIF personnel, recorded as they embarked from Australia for overseas service during the First World War. Nominal roll of the military component of the AN&MEF to New Guinea, 1914–1918. Duplicates of AWM190 [4] can be found in official records AWM190 [1]- [3] which are available for viewing in the Research Centre.
Official Histories - Australian War Memorial
2023年11月23日 · Since its inception, the Memorial has sponsored Australia's official war histories. Australian governments have commissioned four separate series of official war histories over this period, one for each of the major conflicts in which Australia has been involved: the two world wars and the Cold War–conflicts in Korea and south-east Asia.
First World War 1914–18 - Australian War Memorial
Summary. Australia’s involvement in the First World War began when Britain and Germany went to war on 4 August 1914, and both Prime Minister Joseph Cook and Opposition Leader Andrew Fisher, who were in the midst of an election campaign, pledged full support for Britain. The outbreak of war was greeted in Australia, as in many other places ...
Second World War, 1939–45 - Australian War Memorial
Memorial Articles. Second World War, 1939–45. Second World War, 1939–45. On 3 September 1939 Prime Minister Robert Gordon Menzies announced the beginning of Australia's involvement in the Second World War on every national and commercial radio station in Australia. Almost a million Australians, both men and women, served in the Second World ...
Plan your visit - Australian War Memorial
Poppy’s Café. 9 am – 3 pm daily. Research Centre Reading Room. Visits to the Reading Room are for the purpose of viewing Research Centre collection material only. Researchers are required to request an appointment four weeks in advance to facilitate collection retrieval and delivery. Monday – Friday: 10 am – 12.45 pm, 1.45 pm – 4.30 pm.
Commemorate - Australian War Memorial
Daily at 4.55pm approx. The Memorial farewells visitors with its moving Last Post Ceremony, held in Memorial’s Commemorative courtyard. Each night the Last Post Ceremony tells the story behind one of the names on the Roll of Honour which lists more than 103,000 Australians who have given their lives in war. More information & live broadcast.