The Australian War Memorial Collection. Test site
A rare image of an auxiliary unit of the colonial navy of Victoria depicted at a port in Melbourne. The Steamship Lady Loch was built for the Victorian Government as a customs cruiser and lighthouse tender; it was launched in 1886, well before the establishment of the Commonwealth Naval Forces in 1901. The ship was named after Lady Elizabeth Loch, wife of Sir Henry Loch, Governor of Victoria from 1884 -1889.
William Nicholls Anderson (1873 -1927) has combined a realistic depiction of the Lady Loch with an evocative rendering of the bay. Anderson's landscapes were influenced by the impressionistic style of the Heidelberg School of Painters.
Australian First World War banner poster issued by the Victorian Division of the Australian Comforts Fund (A.C.F) on behalf of the Lady Mayoress's Patriotic League. The banner features two small illus
Depicts the transport ship, the New South Artillery, 'A' Battery SS Warrigal steaming down the harbour on departure from Sydney for the Boer War. A number of small boats also farewell members of 'A' B
Photogravure from the front page of 'The Graphic', 10 June, 1893 (unrelated text on verso). Caption reads: "The Australian Artillery were very successful during the Tournament. On one day both prizes
Fort Denison was one of the last Martello towers to be built in the world and is situated on a small island in the middle of Sydney Harbour. The island had been identified from an early stage as an im
A German poster made towards the end of the First World War. It depicts a German city in flames on the banks of the Rhine, being devastated by huge French howitzer guns. The text "So Säh' es aus in de
Arguably Australia's most famous soldier, 'Simpson' was neither a general nor a Victoria Cross recipient, but a stretcher bearer who served briefly in the nation's first major campaign. The painting d
