Collected: Stories from the Australian War Memorial
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Collected: Stories from the Australian War Memorial
Collected: Stories from the Australian War Memorial explores the artefacts that make up the museum of the Australian War Memorial and uncovers the stories that the public don’t always get to hear.
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Collected Episode 32: Boy Soldiers
The Australian Army has always had rules about who is allowed to fight for their country. But during the First World War those rules were sidestepped...
Collected Episode 31: Women in the Airforce
Women now comprise more than 25 per cent of service personnel in the Royal Australian Air Force (RAAF) and there are no restrictions on what they’re a...
Collected Episode 30: Nazi V2 Rocket
The V2 rocket developed by the Germans in World War Two was the world’s first strategic ballistic missile and a forerunner of the rocket that took hum...
Collected Episode 29: Sweetheart Jewellery
Jewellery given and received in war is a symbol of love, pride and support. It comes in many forms, from expensive, commercially manufactured pieces i...
Collected Episode 28: The Lone Pine
The Lone Pine
The magnificent Lone Pine planted at the Memorial is 1934 is a living symbol of the sacrifice of war.
It was grown by a bere...
Collected Episode 27: From Monoplanes to Fighter Jets
The history of military aviation is told in the stories of the Memorial’s oldest and newest aircraft. Built 70 years apart, these two planes demonstra...
Collected Episode 26: HMAS Brisbane’s Bridge
HMAS Brisbane was one of the first three major Australian war ships designed and built in the United States and the last steam powered ship in the Roy...
Collected Episode 25: The tail gunner
The Australian tail gunners who served in World War Two had a particularly dangerous job. They spent hours in cramped, freezing conditions, perched in...
Collected - 024 Acknowledging Indigenous Service
In 1945, a young Indigenous Australian solider recently released from a German prisoner-of-war camp sat to have his portrait painted by war artist, St...
Collected-023 A tale of two dresses
How do you preserve fragile items of clothing that tell remarkable stories about two young women whose lives were transformed by World War Two? Henryk...
Collected-022 Places of Pride
Nearly every town across Australia has its own war memorial. They range from small monuments – perhaps a stained glass window in a church – to communi...
Collected-021Peacekeeping
Australia has a proud record of peacekeeping around the world, from the Middle East to Asia, Africa to the Pacific. These operations have often involv...
Collected-020 VP Day
When the war in the Pacific ended on August 15, 1945, Australians went wild with joy. That day – VP (Victory in the Pacific) Day – was celebrated acro...
Collected-019 Women and War Pt 2
Opportunities were limited for women who wanted to serve in World War One. But many women found a way to use their social position, skills, ingenuity...
Collected-018 Shinyo
Towards the end of World War Two, Japan built and mobilised thousands of killer boats to defend its homeland and occupied territories from possible Al...
Collected-017 Recorded letters
Just months before he sailed for Gallipoli a young Australian soldier on leave in Egypt recorded a letter to send home. This unique artefact is the ol...
Collected-016 Tomb of the Unknown Australian Soldier
In 1993, the remains of a WWI Australian soldier were brought home from the battlefields of France and laid to rest in the Hall of Memory at the Austr...
Collected-015 G for George
During the Second World War, 10,000 Australians served in British-based Bomber Command. More than one in three were killed during air raids over Europ...
Collected-014 Military Working Dogs
Dogs have always accompanied Australians to war, as mascots, messengers, scouts, guards - and comforting companions in tough times. These days, dogs i...
Collected -013 Against all odds
During the Second World War, the oceans of the world became even more perilous – for civilians and merchant seamen as well as naval forces. In Episode...
Collected. Episode 12. Christmas during wartime
Christmas is a meant to be a time of joy and celebration. So how have Australian servicemen and women – and their families at home – coped during time...
collected-011 Women and War
Women have always played a vital role on the home front, supporting the war effort in a variety of ways from factory work to fund-raising. But women h...
Collected - 010 Damien Parer and the Oscar
The first Oscar awarded to an Australian film shines a spotlight on the work of ace war cinematographer Damien Parer. In Episode 10 of Collected, Loui...
Collected - 009 Anzac biscuits and secret cookbooks
It’s 100 years since the first recipe for what we know as Anzac biscuits was published in a cookbook. In Episode 9 of Collected, Louise Maher explores...
Collected - 008 Jim's POW loin cloth
Jim Easton and Lou Engledow were young men thrown together in the Second World War as prisoners of the Japanese on the Burma-Thailand Railway. In Epis...
Collected - 007 D-Day and the Australian Connection
It’s 75 years since the D-Day landings in Normandy, France – the Allied invasion which led to the liberation of Western Europe from Nazi Germany. In E...
Collected - 006 Framing Memory - Rare World War One Portraits
Reverse-painted glass framed photographs are a rare and fragile part of the Memorial’s collection.
The Memorial has the largest-known collection...
Collected - 005 Music and the First World War
Music has the ability to express feelings and ideas in simple, relatable ways; it has the capacity to bring people together and galvanise the spirit....
Collected - 004 Australia's military tattoos
Episode four reveals the history and meaning of tattoos in the Australian Defence Force. In conversation with curator Stephanie Boyle, Canberra tattoo...
Collected - 003 The Bushmaster
Episode three - The Bushmaster
Episode three examines the innovative design and overseas deployment of the Australian-made Bushmaster Infantry M...
Collected - 002 A mother's love and memory
Episode two - A mother's love and memory
Episode two explores the different ways mothers have dealt with the grief of losing sons in war. In con...
Collected - 001 Treaty of Versailles
Collected: Stories from the Australian War Memorial explores artefacts in the museum of the Australian War Memorial. Join journalist Louise Maher over...