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Lynn Arnold speaks into a microphone

Ripples of Wartime

Ripples of Wartime is a series of 12 short interviews with Australians about the Vietnam War.

By Sarah Kershaw

Vietnam War 1962 - 1975
Neil Davis leaps through the jungles of South Vietnam with his hand held Bell and Howell camera c. 1967

The crowded hours

Neil Davis lived on his instincts to produce startling footage of wars in Asia.

By Tim Bowden

Vietnam War 1962 - 1975
Japanese workmen wearing gas masks directing jet from a mobile flame-thrower towards a pile of gasoline-soaked debris.

Toxic Island

The messy and painstaking work of cleaning up munitions in the former theatres of WWII

By Emma White

Second World War 1939 - 1945
Corporal Alexander MacNeil c1915

A VC on any other day

The brave exploits of Lieutenant Alexander MacNeil at Bullecourt.

By Michael Kelly

First World War 1914 - 1918
Queensland Mounted Infantry drying their kit after a storm, Belmont, South Africa, c. 1900.

Letters from Elands River Post

The South African War was candidly described by colonial Australian soldiers.

By Dr Thomas Rogers

South African (Boer) War 1899 - 1902
Pilots Major Jason Duggan (left) and Captain Jason Otter, C Squadron, 5th Aviation Regiment in the cockpit of Chinook A15-201

Final Mission

How Sean Hobbs' photography became the cornerstone of the Memorial’s Afghanistan collection.

By Kate Dethridge

Afghanistan 2001 - 2021
Alfred Bolter, Governor Davey's Proclamation to the Aborigines, 1816 (c. 1866, lithograph, 48 x 28 cm)

A Painted Proclamation

A colonial artwork in the Memorial’s collection has its roots in brutal frontier warfare.

By Dr Thomas Rogers

Colonial 1788-1901