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Read to understand the Memorial’s enduring significance to the people of NSW

Today the Anzac Memorial stands proudly as one of the state’s most significant cultural and commemorative institutions, continuing in its original purpose as a war memorial and as a place of commemoration, remembrance, education and reflection. Read about the Memorial, its collection, and the people for whom it was built. 

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Point & Shoot; Australian Veteran Photography Exhibition
A slouch hat on D-Day
A Slouch Hat on D-Day
When the Grief Came From Home
Battles of the Java and Coral Seas: Defeat and Victory in Australia’s northern waters
Battle of the Atlantic: the wrestle for control of Britain’s maritime supply lines
HERstory Photography Exhibition
HERstory: Remembering Australia’s Military Women
Stories of the Dat Do Dogs
Armistice in Korea, 1953-2023
Broome Attacked, 3 March 1942
Home and Away; Australian Nurses during the Vietnam War
Proud to Serve; Able Seaman William Morgan RAN and HMAS Arunta during the Pacific War
Australia and Lemnos in the Great War
Artillery in Colonial New South Wales
Inaugural Veteran Artist in Residence Cory Rinaldi
War in the Pacific, 1942
Australians and the battles of El Alamein, 1942
7 June 1917; The Battle of Messines
Japanese submarines in Sydney Harbour
To End a War; the Treaty of Vereeniging, 31 May 1902
Mercury on Crete, May 1941
Tinker, Tailor, Soldier; The Oswald Walter Moore Collection
The 24 May Truce on Gallipoli
Jean Garling
Kapyong and Alexander Lavell
Location of the ANZAC Landing, a question that will not die
Tobruk; The AIF’s Great Siege
From ‘Rat of Tobruk’ to Prisoner of the Japanese; NX21644 Private Claude Relton Barker
Lewis Gun on display at the Anzac Memorial
‘Anxious about you hope you are well’; Remembering 1942 and the Bombing of Darwin
Captured on Java; Rodney Marwood Costley, POW
An excellent stamp of Officer; William Cheeseman, MC, DSO
Through adversity to the stars; women and aviation in Australia
Captain George Redfearn Hamilton
Sister Florence Elizabeth McMillan
Lark Force Lost; Rabaul, 23 January 1942
Lieutenant Mavis Claudia Cullen: POW in the wake of the Fall of Rabaul, 20-24 January 1942
No. 24 Squadron and the Fall of Rabaul, 20—24 January 1942
A Sailor in a Soldier’s Battle: A Crimean War VC in Australia
Echoes of the Crimean War, 1853–56
The Anzac Memorial Star Certificate, 1934
The ‘Sydney’–‘Emden’ Engagement and the Story of Stoker Stan Newton, RAN
Death in the Skies: The Story of Second Lieutenant Gilbert Perry, AFC
Witness to Death Throes of an Empire: Sapper Beresford Goodsell
A Warrior Born: Corporal Eddie Wright at war in Korea, Malaya and Borneo
Peacekeeping in East Timor, 1999—2000
‘The greatest bravery and devotion to duty’: A Broodseinde Ridge Military Medal
The Battle for Maryang San, October 1951
Sergeant George Haskew and the Battle of Polygon Wood
Battle Honour on a Ditty Box, 11 September 1914
For Conspicuous Gallantry: The Story of Pilot Officer Frank Mathers CGM
Giggle Hat Recycled: The Story of Internment Camps in NSW
From Labuan to Japan: The Peacetime Casualties of No. 81 Wing, RAAF
Australians in Afghanistan,1839–2021
All for Nothing: Private Alfred Turner and the Battle for Hill 60
From Landing to Lone Pine: Private James Smith’s Gallipoli Diary
Fragments from the Boer War: The Diary of Private Patrick Murray
Commemorating the Battle of Cape Spada, 19 July 1940
The Syria-Lebanon Campaign, June-July 1941
Nigel Love: Aviator, Entrepreneur and Man of Firsts
'ANZAC': Acronym or Proper Noun?
A Remarkable Object: Private McLennan's Boer War Helmet
A Battle in Australian Waters: The Story of Lieutenant Bruce Harvey DSC, RAN
The Foundation Stones and Plaques
The Hall of Service Artwork
The Architectural Composition of the Centenary Extension
The Centenary Project
The Military Service of George Rayner Hoff
The Sculptor: George Rayner Hoff
The Architect: Charles Bruce Dellit
The History of the Anzac Memorial

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