Australian War Memorial at: https://www.awm.gov.au
Collection> Understanding the Collection. This has information on “Researching a Person” and “Researching a Unit” – which includes an explanation of the military structure of ranks.
Search various areas – All, Military events, Units, Library, People, Articles and (Memorials) Collections
Embarkation Roll.
Embarkation roll record includes:
· Conflict, Roll title – Battalion, Embarkation date, Embarkation port, Embarkation Ship
This lists personal information that includes:
· Regimental number, Name, Rank, Age, Trade or calling, Married or single, Address, next of kin and address of next of kin, Religion, Date of joining, Rate of pay, Remarks (sometimes)
Roll of Honour
Names of over 103,000 members of the Australian armed forces who have died during or as a result of warlike service, non-warlike service and certain peacetime operations
o Roll of honour database at: https://www.awm.gov.au/advanced-search/people?roll=Roll%20of%20Honour
First World War Nominal Rolls
· Service number (Officers and nursing sisters were not allocated service numbers), Final rank
· Surname, first name (including some but not all honours)
· Unit of service at the time of death or at the end of the war
· Date of enlistment,
· Date of death or start date of non-effect
AIF Project at: https://aif.adfa.edu.au/index.html
Contains a lot of information about soldiers that served in WW1 – information is taken from various sources and is a great overview of a soldier’s history of involvement in the war.
http://www.naa.gov.au/collection/explore/defence/service-records/army-wwi.aspx
Search and view original war records related to personnel who fought in wars in the National Archives.
https://recordsearch.naa.gov.au/SearchNRetrieve/Interface/SearchScreens/NameSearch.aspx
Explore original government records about Australians and New Zealanders in World War I and the Boer War.
Commonwealth War Graves at: www.cwgc.org
This is main website for all CWGC cemeteries and burial location details.
Find Records TAB – Find War Dead at: https://www.cwgc.org/find/find-war-dead/
Service number, Regiment, Date of death, Burial location, Country of Service and Additional information (That can include “Next of Kin” information).
South Australian Red Cross Records
South Australian Red Cross Information Bureau at: https://sarcib.ww1.collections.slsa.sa.gov.au/
Records of the South Australian Red Cross Information Bureau held in the collection of the State Library of South Australia (SLSA). From 1916 until 1919, the South Australian Red Cross Information Bureau (SARCIB) performed the service of undertaking research into 8,033 enquiries from family and friends of missing Australian Imperial Force (AIF) personnel fighting in World War 1.
This includes letters of enquiry from people in Australia about soldiers fighting overseas. Personal view in these letters about the war.
Trove at: www.trove.nla.gov.au
Image search. There are many war photos that can be searched for on TROVE . As TROVE has links to the State Libraries image collections, you can come across many great collections of military photographs held in each State.
Two South Australian photographs that photographed the Vietnam War were Geoffrey Barnes and Jean Debelle Lamensdorf. Their photographs can be found via TROVE but more records of their photographs can be found on the individual SLSA website.
National Archives – Serviceman photos on Flickr
Images of World War I Australian servicemen
https://www.flickr.com/photos/national-archives-of-australia/collections/72157628184430675/
Department of Veterans’ Affairs
Anzac Portal at: www.anzacportal.dva.gov.au
Website contains information about the war as well as a list of education and community web resources. Links to: WW1 & WW2, Korean and Vietnam records.
Nominal Rolls on the DVA website at: https://nominal-rolls.dva.gov.au/
Nominal Rolls for WWII, Korean War, Vietnamese War and First Gulf War. The Nominal Roll for WWII covers both soldiers who served overseas and personnel serving at home like support staff.
Australian Military Records on Ancestry Library Edition
You can access Ancestry from within the library using the following link. IN Library use ONLY from the Charles Sturt Digital Library page at: https://www.charlessturt.sa.gov.au/community/library/digital-library
British WW1 records
Ancestry UK – World War 1 records
Currently there are130 databases with UK military records and information on Ancestry Library Edition view these via Ancestry Library Edition.
The Great War at: http://www.greatwar.co.uk/
Educational resources and information about WW1. History of battles and detailed maps, cemetery locations.
Tracing your World War 1 Family History
http://www.greatwar.co.uk/research/family-history/tracing-ww1-family-history.htm
Service records
Information on finding service records for solders who served in WW1. Note: 40% of the British WW1 records survived were destroyed in a fire in WW2.
http://www.greatwar.co.uk/research/military-records/ww1-service-records.htm
Commonwealth War Graves
This is main website for all CWGC cemeteries and burial location details for both British and Commonwealth graves.
British Army Service Records
Surviving Service Records (WO 363) and Service Records with Pension Records (WO 364) are available to the public to view in two ways:
They can be accessed on microfilm for free in person at the National Archives in Kew, Surrey, where the original records are stored. Website: https://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/
Ancestry also has a list of
casualties in its database: UK, World War II Army Casualty Lists, 1939-1945
at: https://www.ancestrylibrary.com/search/collections/62623/
This database also has links (RHS
of the page) to Nurse casualties listed for various years.
https://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/explore-the-collection/explore-by-topic/military-and-war/
London Gazette (for events that occurred during the war)
https://www.thegazette.co.uk/London/issue/29328/page/10154
Reports of acts of bravery reported in the London Gazette during the war. The link above shows an example.
