Memorial Articles
The Memorial boasts a staff of subject specialists in all aspects of military history and museum practice.
Our articles and our Encyclopedia allow subject specialists to share their knowledge on Australian military history.
They also provide a way for us to take a closer look at the people and the stories behind the history and our museum collection.
Almost exactly four months earlier, on 10 December 1941, the Australian destroyer had been with Force Z when that squadron was met and overwhelmed by Japanese aircraft off the east coast of Malaya. The core of Force Z was the new battleship Prince of Wales and the First World War-vintage battle cruiser Repulse, neither of which survived their first encounter with the enemy.
We stand here by the Roll of Honour to remember those who died in the defence of New Britain and Ambon and in the aftermath of those defeats. We do so not with any sense of embarrassment but with a profound sympathy for those who suffered and died during the darkest days of the Second World War in south-east Asia.