Australia Tourist AttractionsArmy Museum of Western Australia, Perth
The Army Museum of Western Australia (AMWA) was established in 1977 and has five established galleries and several rotating exhibits and events. Visit and see a piece of Australia's military past, including artifacts and memorabilia like photographs, military vehicles and hardware, letters and other significant items. Their collection has pieces ranging from pre-Federation to the modern day and is a great insight into the past of Western Australia.
Museum Attractions
-Military Medal to a Nursing Sister in the Australian Army Nursing Service WW1 - 1 of only 7 awarded to Australian nurses
-Distinguished Service Order (GVR) to an Hon. 2Lt 44 Battalion
-Western Australian Mounted Infantry Queen's South Africa Medals and Colonial Long Service Medals and Decorations
-Campaign Medal group to a Western Australian nurse murdered by the Japanese on Banka Island
-The famous 1st AIF Western Australia Foss brothers medals - 3 brothers all KIA.
-Medal group to a Western Australian soldier who fought at the battle of Long Tan in South Vietnam
-Important original oil on canvas portait of Lt. General Sir Talbot Hobbs by the famous Australian artist Ernest Buckmaster
-Objects relating to Western Australians who were Prisoners of War of the Japanese, Italians and Germans during the Second World War
-Original uniforms, equipment and insignia
-DCM and bar, MM to 11th Battalion,1st AIF (one of only 7 such combinations to the 1st AIF)
-2 Military Medals to brothers
-DCM to 10th Light Horse for ES Salt, WW1
-DCM to 2/16 Battalion for Gona. Died of wounds
-DCM 2/16 Battalion for Shaggy Ridge
-MC awarded to a 3RAR officer for the Battle of Maryang San during the Korean War