Stories from the ACT Memorial |
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These stories are submitted by families and volunteer researchers.
The ACT Memorial honours men and women who have an association with the ACT and who served in conflicts, peacekeeping missions and related service throughout the world. To be eligible for inclusion on the ACT Memorial, the individual must have been associated with the ACT prior to enlistment. If you consider that you, a family member, or someone you know should be included on the ACT Memorial, data can be provided online using the nomination form on the ACT Memorial website, or by contacting the ACT Heritage Library.
World War I
- Gallipoli Landing
- Gallipoli Evacuation
- The Sheepfold of the Little Rock - Stan Grady at Gallipoli
- Bounce of the Ball
- Ainslie Challenges the 'Kultur' Club
- Cotter Boys from Tharwa to France
- Come Play in the 'Great Game'
- Defending Villers-Bretonneux
- Boy Soldier, Colin Hamilton
- Who Shot the Red Baron?
- Brilliant Redemption
- Hill of Lambs
- Chairman of the Board - Richard Boyer
- Swinging the Banjo from Gallipoli to Bullecourt
- Prisoner of War
- On the Somme Where I Have Found You
- The Road to Peronne
- Dangerous Seas
- Honour Guard at the Canberra Commencement Ceremony 12 March 1913
- Pioneering Phillips Family in Two World Wars
- The Bachelor Quarters
- A Brother and Sister at Arms at Gallipoli
- The Love Story
- The French Australian Memorial
- The dog barked and the "little lion" roared - Jack Webb at Doignies, April 1917
- The Stretcher Bearer - Ernest Corey, MM and Three Bars
- Democracy comes to the Territory
- Life on Gallipoli
- Postcards to the Cotter
- The Men from Snowy River
- Hell Opened at Fromelles
- Lone Pine and the Anguish of Jessie Meech
- The Crowded Mile
- The Winter of 1916
World War II
- Cotter Boys from Tharwa to Tobruk
- Brotherhood of Man
- One of Jackson's Few
- The Dam Buster of Blundell's Cottage
- Dangerous Seas
- The Dairyman of Sandakan
- Recce Patrol to Kokoda
- John Garran - Survivor of the Thai-Burma Railway
- Hal Buttsworth - Prisoner of War
- Pioneering Phillips Family in Two World Wars
- Ian Ross Ingram
- Kokoda Campaign 3rd Battalion
- Kokoda Campaign Sister May Hayman
- Kokoda Campaign Templeton's Crossing
- Kokoda Campaign Ioribaiwa and Imita
- Kokoda Campaign Bert Kienzle
- Kokoda Campaign - the agony of the wounded
- The Rats of Tobruk
- Over the River There Lies My Way
- The Exemption Court