Encyclopedia
The Memorial receives many public inquiries covering a wide range of topics. The Encyclopedia features answers to frequently asked questions about Australians at war. It will allow you to search the contents of the Memorial's databases, and provides links to other resources.
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- Aborigines and Torres Strait Islanders in the Australian Defence Force
- AE1 and AE2 submarines
- Air raids on the Australian mainland
- Amiens gun
- Angel of Mons
- ANZAC acronym
- ANZAC badge A
- ANZAC biscuit
- ANZAC commemorative medallion and badge
- ANZAC Day
- ANZAC Hall
- ANZAC Parade memorials
- ANZAC spirit
- Armidale, HMAS
- Artists, official war artists
- Atatürk
- Australia–Japan Research Project
- Australian Army
- Australian Army war diaries
- Australian Flying Corps
- Australian Imperial Force Order of Battle, 1914–18
- Australian military units
- Australian national flag
- Australian Naval and Military Expeditionary Force (ANMEF)
- Australian Red Cross
- Australian War Memorial: origins
- Australian War Memorial summer scholarships
- Australian war memorials and war graves
- Australian Women's Army Service (AWAS)
- Australian Women's Land Army (AWLA)
B
- Battlefield tours
- Battle of Britain
- Battle of Britain lace
- Bean, Charles
- Beersheba
- Bellona, goddess of war
- Biographies: who's who in Australian military history
- Birdwood, William Riddell
- Blamey, Thomas Albert
- Boer War (South African War), 1899–1902
- Boer War records
- Boxer Rebellion (China), 1900–01
- Boy soldiers
- Brisbane Line
- Bullwinkel, Vivian
C
- Canberra, HMAS
- Carley float
- Casualty: definition
- Casualty statistics: Deaths as a result of service with Australian units forces
- Causes of war
- Centaur hospital ship
- Central West Boomerangs recruiting march
- Chalk badges of Wiltshire
- Changi
- Changi quilts
- Chauvel, Henry (Harry) George
- Christmas books
- Colonial period, The, 1788–1901
- Colour patches
- Coo-ees recruiting march
- Conscription
- Conscription during the First World War, 1914–18
- Conscription during the Second World War, 1939–45
- Conservation
- Coral (Fire Support Base)
- Coral Sea, battle of, 4–8 May 1942
- Cowra breakout
- Crete, 1941
D
- D-Day
- Darwin air raids
- Davis, Neil Brian
- Dead man's penny
- Deakin, Vera
- Desertion and the death penalty
- Dickin Medal for animals and birds
- Dioramas
- "Dog tags"
- Donating items to the Memorial
- Drip rifle
- Dungarees recruiting march
- Dunlop, Sir (Ernest) Edward "Weary"
E
- El Alamein
- Elliott, Harold Edward "Pompey"
- Empire Air Training Scheme
- Enlistment standards
- Enigma
- Eternal flame
F
- Family history
- Female Relatives Badge
- Field punishment
- First World War, 1914–18
- First World War biographies of generals
- First World War Official Histories
- French–Australian League of Help
- Fromelles, The battle of
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H
- Hall of Memory
- Harefield Park Hospital (No. 1 Australian Auxilliary)
- Home front: Second World War
- Horrie the wog dog
- Horses
- Howell-Price brothers
I
J
- Jacka, Albert
- Japanese midget submarine
- Jaywick, Operation
- Jeffrey, Agnes Betty
- Journal of the Australian War Memorial
K
- Kangaroos recruiting march
- Kapyong
- Kirkpatrick, John Simpson
- Kittyhawk A29-133 Curtiss P-40E, “Polly”
- Kokoda Track/Trail
- Kookaburras recruiting march
- Korean War, 1950–53
- Korean War, United Nations Force contributions
- Krait (Operation Jaywick)
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M
- Malayan Emergency, 1950–60
- Man in the mud
- Martin, James Charles (Jim), 1901–15
- Maryang San
- Medals
- Memorial scroll and plaque, 1914–18
- Menin Gate at midnight
- Menin Gate lions
- Men from Snowy River recruiting march
- Menzies's, Prime Minister Robert Gordon, wartime broadcast
- Merchant Navy: Second World War
- Missing in action in Korea
- Missing in action in Vietnam
- Monash, John
- Montevideo Maru
- Morant, Harry "Breaker"
- Morshead, Leslie James
- Mothers and Widows Badge
- Mutinies: 1st AIF
N
- National Service Scheme
- National Service Scheme, Vietnam
- North Russia Relief Force, 1918–19
- N'oublions jamais l'Australie [Let us never forget Australia]
- Nurses memorial
- Nurse survivors of the Vyner Brooke
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- Oaths of enlistment
- Ode: For the fallen
- Official History: First World War
- Official History: Second World War
- Official records
- Official war artists
- Official war photographers
- Operation Jaywick
- Origins of the Australian War Memorial
P
- Peacekeeping
- Peacekeepers in Indonesia: then and now
- Peacekeeping: faces of Australian peacekeeping
- Periscope rifle
- Personal service records information
- Personal service records information: First World War
- Perth, HMAS
- Photograph database
- Pigeons in war
- Poppies
- Princess Mary's Christmas gift
- Prisoners of war: Ballarat memorial
- Prisoners of War: First World War
- Prisoners of war: Second World War –Europe
- Prisoners of war: Second World War – prisoners of the Japanese
- Prisoners of war: Second World War – prisoners of the Japanese, civilian internees, Pacific and South-East Asia
- Prisoners of war: Korean war
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R
- RAAF squadron codes: Second World War
- Rank
- Rationing: food and clothing
- Rationing: petrol
- Reading lists
- Recessional
- Recruiting marches: First World War
- Red Baron
- Red Cross
- Remembrance Day
- Reserved occupations
- Rising Sun badge
- Roll of Honour
- Roll of Honour circulars from the First World War, 1914–18
- Rouse/Reveille
- Royal Australian Air Force (RAAF)
- Royal Australian Air Force (RAAF) squadron histories
- Royal Australian Navy (RAN)
- Royal Australian Navy (RAN) badge
- Royal Australian Navy (RAN) fleet
- Royal Australian Navy: Reports of Proceedings
- Royal Australian Navy (RAN) ship histories
- Rules for field punishment
S
- "Sandy" (Major General Sir William Bridges' horse)
- Saunders, Captain Reg
- Savo Island
- Second World War, 1939–45
- Second World War Official History
- Service records
- Sheean, Edward "Teddy"
- Silver War Badge
- Simpson and his donkey, John Simpson Kirkpatrick
- Slouch hat
- Statistics: Australian casualties in the Vietnam War, 1962–72
- Statistics: Deaths as a result of service with Australian units
- Statistics: frequently asked questions about Australian military statistics
- Sudan (NSW Contingent), March to June 1885
- Sydney II, HMAS and the Kormoran
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U
- Unit histories: Pacific War
- Unit histories: Australian military
- United States citation: 3rd Battalion, Royal Australian Regiment
- United States forces in Australia, 1939–45
- Universal Service Scheme, 1911–29
- Unknown Soldier eulogy
V
- Vampire, HMAS
- Victoria Cross
- Victory gardens
- Victory in Europe (VE) Day
- Victory in the Pacific (VP) Day
- Vietnam, National Service Scheme
- Vietnam Veterans' memorial
- Vietnam War, 1962–75
- Voluntary Aid Detachments (VAD)
- Von Richthofen, Baron
W
- War graves
- War service records, First World War
- War trophies, First World War
- Wake, Nancy ("The white mouse")
- Wallabies recruiting march
- Wallaby airlines
- Waratahs recruiting march
- White, Cyril Brudenell Bingham
- Who's who in Australian military history
- Winnie the war winner
- Women's Auxiliary Australian Air Force (WAAAF)
- Women's Royal Australian Air Force (WRAAF)
- Women's Royal Australian Army Corps (WRAAC)
- Women's Royal Australian Naval Service (WRANS)
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