Home Page Archives
The following is a collection of all articles previously published on the VWMA Home Page. They have been sorted by conflict and/or themes
Boxer Rebellion
The Boxers and the Protector: Australian Engagement with Asia at the Turn of the Century
Boer War
120th Anniversary of the Relief of Kimberley - Boer War
140th Anniversary of a Colonial Catastrophe - and SA's first native born soldier to die in combat
South Australian Nurses and the Second Anglo-Boer War
World War One
John Simpson Kirkpatrick and his Donkey
The Anzac spirit embodied in SA’s 10th Battalion
The Worst Day in Australian Military History – Fromelles 19/20 July 1916
"Poor Devils": The Battle of Pozières
"I would rather be on Gallipoli": The Battle of Pozieres
Hill 60 Gallipoli – the last gasp for the 3rd Light Horse Brigade
The Australasian Soldiers Dardanelles Cenotaph & the Origins of Anzac Day
Letter to the Prime Minister 23rd September 1915
A WWI Selfie - A South Australian Fighter Ace
The South Australian Red Cross Information Bureau
The Battle of Adelaide: The Cheer-Up Society and the Returned Soldiers Association
Patrick Andreas Ohlstrom Trailer
HMAS-AE1 - Australia's most enduring naval mystery solved 21 December 2017
Patrick Andreas Ohlstrom - His Journey through the Great War
‘Thunder of a light horse charge’ - 100 Years of Controversy
Evacuation of Gallipoli - 105 Years
Remembering ANZAC after 105 years
31 October - Beersheba Anniversary
The Last to Fall - Australians Killed in Action WW1
Peaceful Penetration - Low-Cost, High-Gain tactics on the Western Front
Le Hamel 4th July 1918 - Blueprint for Victory
Mont St Quentin / Peronne 30th August -2 September 1918
One Hundred Years since the signing of the Treaty of Versailles
Archaeology on the Anzac battlefield
November 1918 - by Robert S Kearney
Someone to Watch Over Them - AIF Nurses
The Political Battle at the Beginning of the War: the 1914 Federal Election
The Long And The Short Of It - The AIF’s Most Uniquely Sized Soldiers
The Australian Merchant Navy during the Great War
The Western Front – The War Underground
Russia - The October Revolution and its impact on the First World War
Company Runners - The AIFs Real-Life Movie Stars
Diary of a Destroyer: the HMAS Parramatta in German New Guinea
World War Two
February 1942 - The Loss of Ambon and Gull Force
February 1942 - Singapore Triptych
Anniversary of the Bombing of Darwin
Java, March 1942- 'Blackforce' and the loss of the HMAS Perth
Battle Honours - RAAF Pilot Awarded The Silver Star - Edward Mobsby
The Campaign in Dutch Timor and Sparrow Force - Daniel Minchin
The Vyner Brooke / Radji Beach Atrocity
Kokoda Campaign 1942 “Australia’s Thermopylae”
75th Anniversary of the Formation of the Australian Women's Army Service
An Outstanding Pilot - Dudley Marrows DSO DFC
‘Dutch Courage’ - Hans de Vries’ (April 22, 1923 – January 12, 2019) and No. 18 Squadron NEI / RAAF
80 Years since the declaration of War on Germany to begin the Second World War
Completion of the Thai Burma Railway
Australians in the Battle of Britain
The Battle of Britain – Part 2
Australia's shift from the United Kingdom to the United States
The First and the Last – RAAF Kittyhawk Fighter Pilots in the SW Pacific
Victory in Europe (VE ) Day 2020 - 8th May
VE Day - 75 Years Later by Ned Young
Remembering the Sandakan Prisoner of War Camp and Death Marches
"Operation Chastise" The Dams Raid 16/17 May 1943
The POW Death Ships – Australia’s Worst Maritime Disasters
19 November - Anniversary of the Sinking of HMAS Sydney
Sister Mary Hamilton McFarlane and the Tragedy of the AHS Centaur
BCOF - The Forgotten Battalions
Malaya and Borneo
Konfrontasi- Coming Home: The 111th Light Anti Aircraft Battery in 1966
Vietnam War
January 1968 - Remembering Corporal Graham Norley
The RSL Virtual War Memorial welcomes Professor Robert O’Neill AO as its Military History Ambassador
18th August 1966 - The Battle of Long Tan - an overview
Crystal Brook Commemorates Vietnam
Remembering Gang Toi - 55 Years
The Cross of Long Tan's return to Australian War Memorial
My ANZAC Days - Vietnam 19 Apr 1966 to 12 May 1967
Peacekeeping
Individuals
Book Launch: The Private War of Solomon William Jacobs
Corporal Frank McLean MM – A proud great grand-daughter honours his service in Singapore
Ex-POW Leader Bill Schmitt dies at 97
From Prisoner to Guard: The Life and Service of Leslie Walter Parish
Harold Box - The 49th Man Executed in South Australia
Interned: An Italian Prince in South Australia
Leon Maxwell Gellert – Adelaide’s Own Soldier-Poet of the Great War
Megan Spencer a winner in the MEAA State Media Awards
Posthumous honour for Lieutenant Ronald George WILLIAMS TX2146 2nd/40th Battalion
Private Max Gordon HUDSON SX 17807 A Family Dedication
Ronald Lindsay Johnson and his corner of Australia
Saving Private Bishop - Andrew Faulkner
Stanley Melbourne Bruce: Soldier, Politician, Statesman, Viscount
The Fisherman's Friend - Ray Frauenfelder (5RAR)
The Life and Poetry of Kenneth Slessor
The life and times of Hugh Bower - celebrating 100 years
The Many Talents of Sir Hubert Wilkins
Events
A Christmas Truce of a Different Kind
Reflections on Remembrance Day
The 1914 Christmas Truce - Determining Fact From Fiction
The Christmas Truce - a remarkable Australian connection
The Origins of Remembrance Day
Memorials
An Outstanding Innings - 102 not out! Adelaide's War Memorial Oak
Flanders Memorial Garden Unveiled
Vale David Whitlock Hesketh Jones: 4 June 1922 - 13 June 2020
VALE William (Bill) Park CBE AM: A Crusader at Rest
Maryborough ANZAC Memorial Walk during the recent floods
VWMA News
"Don't Forget Me, Cobber" Luncheon - Port Lincoln
Don’t Forget me Cobber Lunch - Adelaide 6 October 2017
General the Honourable Sir Peter Cosgrove is National Patron of Virtual war memorial Australia
Robert Kearney Honoured with an OAM
Two years on and so much to be proud of!
VP Day Reflections by Peter L Williams
Western Front to Normandy Tour 2018
New Team Member - VWMA School Manager
Australians and the Road to Damascus
Lines of Communication: News from the Front
Recitation - The Creeping Barrage : Siegfried Sassoon
Welcome Home - the Return of the Unknown Soldier
Violet Town: Commemorating a Community
The First Conscription Referendum
Kapara: Convalescence during the World Wars
The Tale of an Enduring Friendship - MeWei 3027
Education and Remembrance - Telling Their Story
Hallowed Ground - Women Doctors at War
Remembering the Dead, Ancient and Modern
Kicking Goals Behind the Barbed Wire
The Bayonet - All you need to know.
THE ANZAC SPIRIT - Alive and well in our young people
ANZAC DAY REFLECTIONS ‘ON OPERATIONS’
Silent His Wings - A Sister’s Tribute
Bringing the Boys Home - Repatriation and Demobilisation