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	The Australian War Memorial and Anzac Parade: Factsheet
		The majestic Australian War Memorial (AWM) and Anzac Parade are at the heart of the nation's tribute to the courage and sacrifice of generations of the men and women who have helped defend our nation.
		The AWM was originally planned to commemorate only the First World War, yet it soon became apparent that the new war raging overseas was comparable in scale and affect.
		The unknown Australian soldier was buried in a Tasmanian flwood coffin with a slouch hat and a sprig of wattle, and soil from the Pozieres battlefield was scattered in his tomb.
	www.environment.gov.au /heritage/national/sites/war-memorial-factsheet.html (1129 words)

	Australian War Memorial - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The Australian War Memorial is Australia's national memorial to the members of all its armed forces and supporting organizations who have died in the wars of the Commonwealth of Australia.
		The Memorial is a two-storey building with a floor plan in the shape of a cross, beneath and around the courtyard of the commemorative area, with a broad annex called Anzac Hall to the north.
		The Remembrance Park behind the War Memorial is the Canberra terminus of the Remembrance Driveway, a system of arboreal parks, landmarks and road-side stops between Sydney and Canberra commemorating the 24 World War II and Vietnam War Victoria Cross recipients.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Australian_War_Memorial (1645 words)

	Register of War Memorials in New South Wales - Bowral Memorial
		The memorial is a concrete and marble obelisk surmounted by a cross, surrounded by a garden.
		Australian War Memorial records show that W Napier was awarded a DFM, and R B Smith a DFC.
		This memorial was erected by the people of Bowral and Glenquarry in honour of those who served the Empire during the GREAT WAR 1914 1918.
	www.warmemorialsnsw.asn.au /Details.cfm?MemNo=834 (451 words)

	Australian Boer War Memorial Site Home
		Australians had also fought in the Maori wars in New Zealand and, in 1885, New South Wales sent a 700 strong contingent of infantry and artillery, with a small medical detachment, to the Sudan in North Africa.
		Australians in irregular units took part in both the epic defence and the relief of the Siege of Mafeking and a number of Australians died during the defence of the town.
		On 1 March 2007 the Canberra National Memorials Committee (CNMC) chaired by the Prime Minister approved the proposal by the Royal Australian Armoured Corps Association for Section 41 Reid on Anzac Parade be set aside for the construction of a suitable memorial subject to design approval by the CNMC and progress by 2010.
	www.bwm.org.au (1013 words)

	Memorial Details: Australian Vietnam War Memorial
		The war was part of a larger regional conflict involving the neighboring countries of Cambodia and Laos, known as the Second Indochina War.
		This interview with Australian architect Peter Tonkin was conducted in the office of the architect bureau, Tonkin Zulaikha Greer, in Sydney in Nov 2003.
		Peter Tonkin has designed several war memorials, often in collaboration with artists, for example the Memorial to the Australian Forces in the Vietnam War, in Canberra, and the Memorial to the Australian Forces in WWI and WWII, in London.
	www.war-memorial.net /mem_det.asp?ID=6 (442 words)

	Australian War Memorial - AJRP Essays
		To Australians in 1941 the Singapore Naval Base represented the shield with which the Royal Navy protected the northern approaches to Australia should it ever be threatened by the ships of an Asian navy.
		Australian anti-tank gunners in a position overlooking the Straits of Johore and the Causeway which connects Singapore Island with the city of Johore Bahru on the Malayan mainland.
		The front-line defence of the island at Kranji in the north and along the north-west coast was given to the Australian 27th and 22nd Brigade respectively.
	ajrp.awm.gov.au /ajrp/ajrp2.nsf/437f72f8ac2c07238525661a00063aa6/e2909070f075fdbeca256946001ef8ab?OpenDocument (1576 words)

	Australian War Memorial, London - Battle Names and Place Names
		The Australian War Memorial in London, officially opened on 11 November 2003, features a long, curving wall of West Australian green granite, reflecting the sweep of the Australian landscape.
		Inscribed on the wall are the names of many of the battle sites where Australian and British military personnel fought, superimposed upon the names of thousands of home towns of Australian men and women who served during the two world wars, many of whom were never to return home.
		The 47 battle names inscribed on to the face of the memorial reflect the geographical spread of Australia's service and recall the great sacrifice of Australian life during the conflicts.
	www.dva.gov.au /commem/oawg/memorials/london/index.htm (571 words)

	Mekong Mart. English and the Australian Science Festival, Canberra, Australia.
		The Australian Science Festival is one of the biggest and most innovative science festivals in the world.
		The Australian War Memorial remembers Australia's war dead and honours the troops who have served the nation in wartime.
		The Australian fighting men, stuck in the trenches and surrounded by death and destruction, wanted a shrine in their homeland to remember their fallen comrades.
	www.mekongmart.com /ToursAustralia/T3AUEC00.htm (3489 words)

	American Australian Memorial Canberra Australia
		E.K. White (later Sir Ernest), proposed that a Memorial be erected to express the thanks of the Australian people to the United States of America for its contribution to the defense of Australia.
		In 1948 the Federal Council of the Australian American Association resolved "to establish a Memorial in Canberra in the form of a monument or statue, to perpetuate the services and sacrifices of the United States forces in Australia and to symbolize Australian-American comradeship in arms".
		R.G. Casey, federal President of the Australian American Association (1946-1950), he was later crested Lord Casey of Berwick and appointed as the Governor General of Australia, Sir Keith Murdoch, Victorian President (1941-1946), father of media owner Rupert Murdoch.
	usembassy-australia.state.gov /coralsea/memorial.html (654 words)

	1918: Australians in France: An Australian War Memorial Travelling exhibition
		Australian soldiers earned world wide recognition for their fighting in the battles of Hamel and Amiens in France in 1918.
		CEW Bean, the Official war historian, played an important part in commencing the collection of relics, thereby laying the foundations for the Australian War Memorial collection.
		The Official War Art Scheme, commenced in 1917, is mentioned in the exhibition text as are AIF official photographers.
	www.shrine.org.au /content.asp?document_id=1233 (279 words)

	Australian War Memorial (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-17)
		The Memorial's presence in Australia's national capital forms the core of the nation's tribute to the men and women who served their country in time of war.
		The focus of the memorial, beyond the Pool, is the Hall of Memory with its distinctive copper-sheathed dome.
		Within the Hall of Memory is an official war grave and national shrine containing the remains of an unidentified soldier who died on the battlefields of the Western Front in World War I. The Unknown Australian Soldier was brought home and entombed in the Memorial on 11 November 1993.
	www.skp.com.au /memorials/pages/00001.htm (673 words)

	Australian War Memorial -Biographical Databases
		Digitised images of approximately 32,000 individual case files of Australian personnel reported as wounded or missing during the First World War.
		Australian Military Forces [AMF] Prisoner of War and Missing, Far East and South West Pacific Islands
		Details of approximately 23,000 AMF prisoners of war and missing personnel from operations in the Far East and South West Pacific Islands, as at 30 June 1944.
	www.awm.gov.au /database/biographical.asp (210 words)

	Using war records in Family History Research
		Available on microfiche (AWM 133) is available at the the Australian War Memorial and many other libraries including local family history groups.
		The Australian Defence Force Academy has developed a computer database of information on members of the First Australian Imperial Forces (AIF) and copies of entries may now be purchased if sufficient information is available to identify the person being researched.
		War Memorials are visited by members of the local community on Anzac Day (25 April) and Remembrance Day (11 November) each year to remember and pay respect to those who gave their all, in the fight for freedom.
	www.ulladulla.info /fhc/war.html (1244 words)

	Australian War Memorial
		The Australian War Memorial's Collection Databases use 'cookies' in order to retain search parameters and results during an enquiry session.
		Cookie information is not retained or forwarded to any other body or organisation and users may have complete confidence that the Australian War Memorial fully respects and applies the principles of privacy and confidentiality over the Internet.
		The Australian War Memorial is fully committed to protecting your privacy.
	www.awm.gov.au /website/privacy.htm (642 words)

	Australian War Memorial: One of the world's great museums
		The Australian War Memorial invites you to join us on Sunday 11 November at 10.15 am to commemorate those men and women who fought and died for Australia in all wars and armed conflict.
		An exciting new exhibition opening on 7 December tells the story of the legendary T. E Lawrence and the Australian Light Horse and their central roles in General Sir Edmund Allenby's campaign against the Turks from Gaza to the northern reaches of Syria during the First World War.
		Filled with striking colour images of relics and artworks, including Lancaster bomber G for George and the Hall of Memory, A Place to Remember is your personal tour of the Memorial, and an ideal introduction to its vast collection.
	www.awm.gov.au (304 words)

	Austr. War Memorial (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-17)
		At the same time as commemorating the 102,000 Australian soldiers who lost their lives in seven wars in the last hundred years, most movingly in the Hall of Memory, this is also a military museum, depicting war through miniature battle dioramas and old aircraft.
		Official Australian historiography continues to mythologize the battle for Gallipoli, elevating it to the level of a national legend on which Australian identity is founded.
		From this point of view, in the war’s baptism of fire, the Anzac soldiers proved themselves heroes who did the new nation proud, their loyalty and bravery evidence of how far Australia had developed.
	www.pacificislandtravel.com /australia/capitalterritory/cbr_warmemorial.asp (731 words)

	South Australian National War Memorial, Adelaide, South Australia
		In harmony with the sad retrospect of the theme, is the fountain of compassion fed from the mouth of a bronze lion, crowned with the Imperial crown as the symbol of the British Commonwealth of Nations.
		The murmur and movement of the water, being ceaseless, typifies the constant flow of memories of the heroes the memorial honors.
		This memorial is the seal of South Australia’s homage to her sons, who in the ranks of brave company from all parts of the Empire, gave their lives during the Great War." The News April 25 1931
	www.dva.gov.au /sa_nt/commemoration/memorials/sanwm.htm (689 words)

	About the Australian War Memorial
		Memorial Director, Steve Gower, outlines the scope of the website and some of its more interesting features.
		During the First World War, Australian troops were officially encouraged to collect relics of the battles in which they had fought.
		That tradition of acquisition and preservation continues today, enhancing the written record of war, and has produced one of the finest military artefact, document and media collections in the world.
	www.awm.gov.au /aboutus (310 words)

	Corporate Information
		The Australian War Memorial is established as a corporation by the Australian War Memorial Act 1980.
		The current members of the Council of the Australian War Memorial, which is responsible for the conduct and control of the affairs of the Memorial.
		The Council of the Australian War Memorial's response to the Minister for Veterans' Affairs expectations.
	www.awm.gov.au /corporate (218 words)

	Subject: Apprentice Memorial Plaque – Australian War Memorial
		I met with the AWM to discuss the feasibility and was given a very favourable reception and a brief of what was required.
		It would probable be sometime in 2007 and intakes may care to utilize this gathering for their own reunions, or as a group we could hold a gala dinner with tables arranged by intakes.
		The AWM has intimated it may be possible to utilize Anzac Hall for such a gathering.
	home.vicnet.net.au /~rasigsau/apprentice_memorial_awm.htm (537 words)

	GAA Feature: Victoria trip, part I: Canberra
		The boulevard divided by red gravel leading up to the War Memorial is ANZAC Parade, so named for the ANZACs: Australia-New Zealand Army Corps, who were instrumental to Australia's youth as a country not only in their military capacity but also for their influence on the nation's concept of itself.
		One of our favorites was the Navy Memorial (left), though we were also amused to note that one of the memorials honored the general who led the Turkish forces against the ANZACS during WWI and eventually drove them away in one of the first and most famous battles in Australian history.
		We visited the War Memorial on a Wednesday afternoon, 16 February, which just happened to be the day they scheduled the once-a-month ceremonial mounting of the honour guard on the tomb of the unknown Australian soldier (we had no idea this was scheduled to happen).
	www-personal.umich.edu /~drossz/personal/oz/canberra.htm (1095 words)

	Cheltonians Commemorated on the Australian War Memorial
		He is commemorated on the Cheltenham War Memorial and the Holy Apostles Church Roll of Honour.
		Cpl Chidley is commemorated on the Cheltenham War Memorial and on the Cambray Baptist Church Roll of Honour.
		He is commemorated on the Cheltenham War Memorial, the St Paul's Church War Memorial and the Salem Baptist Church Roll of Honour.
	www.remembering.org.uk /australian_war_memorial.htm (967 words)

	George Lambert
		In early 2007 the Australian War Memorial appointed Charles Green and Lyndell Brown as official artists to Iraq and Afghanistan.
		On their first day in the ‘Old ANZAC area’, Lambert and Hubert Wilkins (the official photographer of the Australian* Historical Mission) were taken down to ANZAC Cove by Charles Bean.
		This Australian War Memorial Travelling Exhibition is funded by Saluting Their Service, the Department of Veterans' Affairs commemorations program and supported by Visions of Australia, an Australian Government Program supporting touring exhibitions by providing funding assistance for the development and touring of cultural material across Australia, WIN Television and MIX 106.3.
	blog.awm.gov.au /lambert (3667 words)

	Australian War Memorial (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-17)
		Thematic approaches such as memorializing war, war diaries, or the role of women in war are possible through advanced searching.
		Under Australians at War, a subsection entitled Australia’s Prime Ministers has collected primary sources for each of Australia’s leaders, from Edmund Barton (1901—03), to the current Prime Minister, John Howard, with reference to their role in war.
		This is a particularly useful comparative source in a world history context for students to analyze the connections between war and ideas of leadership and nation over the course of the twentieth century.
	www.chnm.gmu.edu /worldhistorysources/r/206/whm.html (631 words)

	AUSTRALIAN WAR MEMORIAL
		As a young Canadian the image of war is immortalized in stories, and I must rely on historical data and artifacts to remind me of the many young soldiers who fought for freedom, something we all take for granted today.
		The Australian War Memorial is a testament to the bravery of the men and women who served in the war.
		The bronze and copper sculptures in all of the war halls seem almost life-like clearly defining the roles of Australians in war, armed conflict and peacekeeping.
	www.travel-travel-travel.com /spot/archives/7/Australia_War_Memorial.htm (583 words)

	Airminded · Australian War Memorial blogs!
		The AWM is to be applauded for this.
		It’s about the Australian War Records Section, formed in London in May 1917, effectively the origins of the AWM itself, and features some photographs and artefacts associated with it, such as a 1918-pattern pair of anti-gas goggles and a stuffed carrier pigeon.
		There’s also some more good news: the AWM is digitising the war diaries of Australian Army units involved in the various wars of the twentieth century.
	airminded.org /2007/06/22/australian-war-memorial-blogs (1911 words)

	AUSTRALIAN WAR MEMORIAL - CANBERRA
		The War Memorial is considered one of the nation's greatest.
		The memorial hosts a range of activities, a vast collection of information and pays tribute to over 100,000 Australian men and women who died serving their country both here and overseas.
		Every year the Australian War Memorial hosts both Anzac Day and Remembrance Day commemorations that are attended by hundreds of people, both old and young.
	www.australianexplorer.com /canberra_australian_war_memorial.htm (298 words)

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