The Australian flag can evoke a range of feelings from pride and camaraderie to exclusion and division. Here are some reasons ...

Australia says it will appoint a special investigator to consider prosecutions over alleged war crimes by its soldiers in Afghanistan. In recent years, reports have emerged alleging unlawful ...

Illustration for the wartime publication 'The Australian Soldier - A Portrait'. Depicts two Allied soldiers leaning in toward one another. The Australian soldier is smoking and is offering a cigarette ...

Army is leading The Korean War Project, which aims to update the case files of all Australian soldiers who remain missing in action and presumed dead from the Korean War. The ongoing work to account ...

Plans to honour an unknown Australian soldier were first put forward in the 1920s, but it was not until 1993 that one was at last brought home. To mark the 75th anniversary of the end of the First ...

Despite the efforts of recruitment offices to deny entry into the army to non-white Australians, Australian Chinese were so determined to play their part that they often had to lie about their ...

Over 60,000 Australians gave their lives during the First World War. Army continues to work towards finding those that have no known grave. After 2 years of careful investigation, excavations, ...

Merle and her sister Alva, an army nurse ... stories The National Archives of Australia has been painstakingly digitising over a million World War II service records of men and women.

Oscar Jenkins was a regular citizen when he joined the Ukrainian International Legion. Now the Australian government has been making "urgent enquiries" with Russian authorities about a report the ...

Source: Supplied by Amarinder Bajwa Contribution of Sikh troops The association of the Sikhs with the Australian Army can be traced as far back as 1885 when soldiers from the British Indian Army ...