Dr Lachlan Grant

Senior Historian, Military History

Dr Lachlan Grant is a Senior Historian at the Memorial and the Concept Developer for the new Australians in Bomber Command 1939–1945 exhibition for the new Anzac Hall. He is currently completing a book on Australians on D-Day and the battle of Normandy for publication next year.

The landing beaches at Normandy from the air, 1944

The Royal Australian Navy at Normandy

Australian sailors played many important roles in D-Day’s Operation Neptune.

By Dr Lachlan Grant

Second World War 1939 - 1945

Three members of the 3rd Battalion, The Royal Australian Regiment (3RAR), confer with a North Korean interpreter (left) who is serving with the battalion. Saunders is second from the right, smoking a pipe.

The fighting Gunditjmara

Indigenous people have fought for Country and for nation, from frontier wars to world wars.

By Dr Lachlan Grant

Lancaster bomber aircraft during an air attack on the city of Hamburg

Failed to Return

The search for missing aircrew in the Second World War was painstaking and painful.

By Dr Lachlan Grant

Second World War 1939 - 1945