By Carmen Burton, Assistant Curator, Queensland Stories, Queensland Museum Women’s experiences of war are an important part of the ANZAC Day commemorations and traditions. Their stories reshape how we might understand the experience of living through conflict. This year for ANZAC Day, we are honouring and acknowledging the contribution of the young women who were married during these periods of history by sharing a 1940s … Continue reading War Brides
Written by Assistant Curator, Social History, Lyn Petrie.
Do you remember attending an ANZAC Day ceremony at school and learning about the ANZAC tradition?
Continue reading “ANZAC Day 1916 – Queensland School Journal”
Written by Senior Curator of Social History, Mark Clayton
In 1988 the Queensland Museum was gifted a collection of twenty-eight purple Anzac Day ribbons documenting Miss Jean Hardie’s [almost] unswerving attendance at the nation’s annual day of commemoration.
Written by Mark Clayton, Senior Curator, Social History, Queensland Museum.
You won’t find the name Alfred Warner mentioned in any Australian military history, but as Australia’s only airship pilot, you’ll discover his story is a remarkable one.
Continue reading “The Gallipoli Campaign from above the clouds”
Written by Mark Clayton, Senior Curator, Social History, Queensland Museum.
This hand-drawn map of Quinn’s Post, Gallipoli, documents – in great detail – the disposition of Australian forces including the location of mines, trenches, tunnels, and winzes. The right-hand table also chronicles the forty-seven mine explosions that occurred there during the eight month campaign.
Continue reading “Quinn’s Post: Gallipoli”
They say a picture is worth a thousand words, yet the haunting images of the Remember Me: the lost diggers of Vignacourt exhibition currently on at the Queensland Museum seem to be worth so many more. Continue reading “Lost Love Letters inspire Gallipoli Art Prize”
