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Norman Lee and Bob Macintosh - Typhoon Ruth (Oral history)

Norman Lee and Bob Macintosh - Typhoon Ruth (Video)

Norman Lee enlisted in the Royal Australian Navy in May 1948. Following initial naval training in HMAS Cerberus, he commenced pilot training with the RAAF at Point Cook

Norman Lee and Bob Macintosh - The leans (Video)

Norman Lee enlisted in the Royal Australian Navy in May 1948. Following initial naval training in HMAS Cerberus, he commenced pilot training with the RAAF at Point Cook

Norman Lee and Bob Macintosh - Meteors vs MiGs (Video)

Norman Lee enlisted in the Royal Australian Navy in May 1948. Following initial naval training in HMAS Cerberus, he commenced pilot training with the RAAF at Point Cook

Norman Lee and Bob Macintosh - Deck landings (Video)

Norman Lee enlisted in the Royal Australian Navy in May 1948. Following initial naval training in HMAS Cerberus, he commenced pilot training with the RAAF at Point Cook

Norman Lee and Bob Macintosh - Bombing raids (Video)

Norman Lee enlisted in the Royal Australian Navy in May 1948. Following initial naval training in HMAS Cerberus, he commenced pilot training with the RAAF at Point Cook

North Korea, China and the USSR

The three communist nations which went to war with the United Nations were North Korea, China and the Soviet Union...

Other prisoners

The first year of the Korean War saw four great military disasters befall the armies on either side...

Out in the Cold: Australia's Involvement in the Korean War 1950-53 (Book)

This commemorative publication explores Australian's involvement in the Korean War.

Peace negotiations

In the first, manoeuvre, phase of the Korean War both sides aspired to total victory to unify the country under either the northern or the southern government...

Peacekeeping: In Their Own Words (Online lesson), (Video), (Student activity), (Educational)

Australian veterans talk about their peacekeeping experiences

Peter Scott - Korean War veteran (Oral history)

Peter Scott - Korean War veteran (Video)

Francis 'Peter' Scott was born in Elsternwick, Victoria, in 1929. A keen cadet in his school days, Peter joined the Royal Military College – Duntroon in February 1946.

Policing the ceasefire: post-ceasefire operations 1953 to 1957

The ceasefire of 27 July 1953 brought about no immediate reduction of Australian forces in Korea...

Prisoners of War

Some armies have refused to take prisoners and executed all who fell into their hands. Other armies accept prisoners but do not treat them well. A third and rarer case is when prisoners are taken,…

Private Bob Parker

Private Robert Parker, 3 Battalion Royal Australian Regiment, was captured at the Battle of Kapyong...

Ray Seaver - Korean War veteran (Oral history)

Rayene Stewart Simpson

Rayene 'Ray' Simpson was a highly-decorated and experienced soldier who served in 4 major conflicts. He was fearless, did not always follow the rules and 'knew every swear word in the book'.

Dudley Goodwin and Raymond Deed - Korean War veterans (Video)

Raymond Deed joined the Australian Army and was assigned to the 3rd Battalion, The Royal Australian Regiment (

Reginald Saunders: Stories of Service (Online lesson), (Video), (Student activity), (Educational)

Reginald Walter Saunders was from the Gunditjmara people of southern Victoria. His father and uncle had served in the First World War, which motivated Reg to enlist in the Second Australian Imperial…

Reginald Walter Saunders

Reg Saunders survived 11 months on the enemy-occupied island of Crete. He later served in the Korean War and championed Indigenous equality after the war.

Remembrance

In the country where it was fought, the Korean War is by no means 'the forgotten war'. In both North and South Korea there are numerous memorials to the more than one million Koreans who died.

Remembrance Day Kitbag for hosting a commemorative event (Fact sheet)

Host resources for a Remembrance Day service. Our kitbag includes a suggested order of service with flag protocols, music, sample speeches, the Ode of Remembrance and craft activities for children.…

Remembrance Day poster 2024 (Poster)

We've created this poster to commemorate Remembrance Day in 2024. Our poster features an Australian Army Officer wearing a yarn poppy on their shoulder as a symbol of remembrance. The poppy…

Remembrance Day Posters 2010 (Poster)

A commemorative poster was produced for the 60th anniversary of the commencement of the Korean War. The image shows a Korean War veteran laying a wreath on the Tomb of the Unknown Australian Soldier…

Remembrance Day Posters 2013 (Poster)

This poster shows two members of the 3rd Battalion, The Royal Australian Regiment (3RAR), carrying a wounded soldier from the Republic of Korea (ROK) Army along a snow-covered track towards a medical…

Remembrance Day Posters 2022 (Poster)

This poster has been created to commemorate Remembrance Day in 2022. Display our poster to help remember and recognise all those who lost their lives in wars, conflicts and peacekeeping or…

Richard Arundel (Oral history)

Robert O'Neill (Australian Army), Counter-insurgency (Video)

Bob O'Neill served as an intelligence officer in Vietnam. His work in counter-insurgency took him out into Vietnamese villages gathering intelligence.

Royal Australian Air Force in the Korean War

All Royal Australian Air Force (RAAF) units serving with the United Nations Command in Korea were administered by 91 Composite Wing...

Royal Australian Navy in the Korean War

When North Korea invaded South Korea the RAN had two destroyers, Bataan and Warramunga attached to the British Commonwealth Occupation Force in Japan...

Shot down over Korea

For an Australian pilot forced down over enemy territory in Korea, fate offered three alternatives. The fortunate were rescued.

SLWA NR-0003378 (Image)

Snapshots: Australians in War and Conflict (Book), (Student activity), (Educational)

This book introduces readers to 24 interesting and perhaps lesser-known experiences of those who served in wars and conflicts and their families on the home front. The stories are gathered from World…

Ray Seaver - Korean War veteran (Video)

Born in Forbes in 1931, Ray Seaver wanted to fly and saw the Korean War as his opportunity to become a fighter pilot.

Sport and Australian military life (Fact sheet)

For Australians, the connection between sport and military service dates to the colonial era. Through more than a century of war, conflict and peacekeeping operations, military personnel have found…

Stalemate, the war in 1952–1953

A war of rapid movement was replaced by one of night patrols in no-mans-land and set-piece offensives launched from trenches across enemy minefields and barbed wire with massive artillery support.

Stanley Connolly (Oral history)

Stanley Connolly served with 3rd Battalion Royal Australian Regiment at the Battle of Kapyong.

John Hickman, Stanley Starcevich and Walter Perkins - World War II veterans (Video)

Stanley joined the Australian Army due to a lack of employment opportunities in Western Australia.

Taffy Hughes - Enlistment (Oral history)

The aircraft carrier HMAS Sydney

HMAS Sydney was one of a class of relatively small and uncomplicated light fleet carriers which in Korea operated 24 Hawker Sea Fury and 14 Fairey Firefly fighter bombers...

The Armed Forces in the Korean War

More than three million of these were communists from North Korea, China and Russia. Opposing them were almost three million from South Korea and from 21 United Nations (UN) countries including…

The Art of Remembrance short film (Video)

Explores the role of paintings and sketches that represent the experiences of Australia's service personnel and how visual art can help us learn more about Australia's military history. Rated PG (…

Grace Halstead (Video)

The interview excerpts here are drawn from over 2,000 interviews with Australian war veterans conducted by the Department of Veterans' Affairs. The project, called the Australians at War Film Archive…

Stanley Connolly (Video)

Stanley Connolly served with 3rd Battalion Royal Australian Regiment at the Battle of Kapyong.

Richard Arundel (Video)

Kerry Smith (Video)

Kerry Smith recalls visiting the grave of his friend in Korea when the war ended and again 40 years later.

Bill Simmond (Video)

Maxwell Veale (Video)

The Battle of Kapyong, 23 to 25 April 1951

In late April 1951 three Chinese army groups launched the Fifth Phase Offensive...

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