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World War I: a select list
The following sources have been selected to indicate what is available on
participants in WWI and the contexts in which they may be found and so
shed light on their war experiences, of great interest to the family historian.
Defence department and cemetery records, photographs and diaries,
accounts of battalion experiences and specific battles are covered in the
bibliography.
In searching the State Library of Queensland’s catalogue, http://onesearch.slq.qld.gov.au,
use search terms such as ‘First World War’, ‘World War, 1914-1918’, ‘Australia’ or ‘Great
Britain’ in combination with phrases such as ‘regimental histories’, ‘battalion’ and ‘history’ or
‘biography’ or ‘campaigns’.
Defence and government records
National Archives of Australia
http://www.naa.gov.au/
This site has useful entry points into WWI information. Select ‘Fact Sheets’ on the home
page. Under the heading, ‘Defence, Armed Services and War’ select ‘Defence service
records for WWI and WWII’. Clear information is provided on a range of war service
records: what they contain and how to get them. Advice on other sources is also outlined.
‘WWI internee, alien and POW records’ may also be helpful. Highlights for WWI are:
• WWI service records; under ‘Search the collection’, use the RecordSearch facility, click
on ‘Name Search’ tab, type in surname and select ‘World War I’ from ‘Category of
Records’ drop down menu for an easy search. You can download a digital copy of the
records.
• Mapping our Anzacs, http://mappingouranzacs.naa.gov.au/, which will allow you to click
on a map and find the names of those who served according to where they were born.
This links to identifying information for those who served and their service records. It also
provides detail enabling a more useful search through the Australian War Memorial’s
biographical and collections databases.
• Discovering Anzacs, http://discoveringanzacs.naa.gov.au/, currently being developed
with New Zealand Archives that will have a unique profile of every Anzac who enlisted in
World War I.
Australian War Memorial
http://www.awm.gov.au/
This is an extremely rich, expanding, award-winning site covering:
• biographical databases related to all the overseas military events involving
Australians
• official records including a link to those in the National Archives
• over 7000 film items and 5000 sound recording items
• over 800 000 photographs
• over 7 500 private records
• Army war diaries
• an encyclopedia
• a glossary of terms used
• useful links
There are multiple ways of searching this database. Linkages of scanned citations to the
database and information updates mean you can find new material regularly.
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Last revised: June 2014 www.slq.qld.gov.auBiographical databases
Search for a Person is a useful entry point to search these databases as it provides a list of only
the relevant areas in response to the questions about surname, the conflict and whether or not the
soldier was killed.
Information for WWI covers:
AIF Nominal Roll including enlistment details and date of return or when killed
Unit Embarkation Nominal Rolls which document the first unit with which a soldier served. The
rolls are incomplete but provide information on next of kin.
Roll of Honour which provides a lot of information on those who died including place and date of
death and burial, information on next of kin and other detail extracted from the Roll of Honour cards
which may be attached as a scanned image.
Commemorative Roll which records the names of those Australians who died during or as a result of
wars in which Australians served, but who were not serving in the Australian Armed Forces.
Honours and Awards gazetted and recommended with scanned images sometimes attached
Australian Red Cross Wounded and Missing Enquiry Bureau Files which may include those
about whom there is little other information.
Collections database
The collections search feature is an entry point to a range of pictorial and audiovisual materials,
private records, books, maps and sheet music as well as Australian Army war diaries. The war
diaries, a means by which formations and units recorded their daily activities, are presented as
scanned images.
A section provides guidance for those using the records and researching family history.
There is also a large collection of Defence Department records held on microfiche at the State
Library including the following records:
Roll of Honour circulars, 1914-1918 war [microfiche]
Header title: AWM 131.
MFC 940.46794 1987
Roll of Honour circulars, 1914-18 war. Supplementary series [microfiche]
Header title: AWM 164
MFC 940.46794 1987
Official history 1914-1918 war, biographical cards [microfiche]
Header title: AWM 140
MFC 940.394 1992
Roll of honour cards, 1914-1918 War, Royal Australian Navy [microfiche]
Header title: AWM 144
MFC 940.46794 1988
Nominal roll of AIF who left Australia for service abroad, 1914-1918 war [microfiche]
MFCB 940.41294 1989
AIF Unit embarkation nominal rolls, 1914-18 war [microfiche]
Header title: AWM 8
MFC 940.41294 1992
Nominal roll of deceased members of the A.I.F. & A.N. & M.E.F [microfiche]
Header title: AWM 136
MFC 940.46794 1984
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Page 2 of 11New Zealand Expeditionary Force & Reserve List, 1914-1918 War [microfiche]
Contents: New Zealand Expeditionary Force, 1914-1918 War; New Zealanders enlisting in the
Australian Expeditionary Force; Roll of Honour, 1914-1918 War; Medal Roll List from the New
Zealander Year Book of 1919; New Zealand Expeditionary Force Reserve.
MFC 940.467931 1987
New Zealand Expeditionary Force casualties - WWI [microfiche]
Each book for a given time period, contains a summary of casualties, in order of units, an index
containing Number, Rank, Name, Date reported, Casualty list number and Force plus a summary
of casualties to date. Header title: N.Z.E.F. casualties: World War I.
Reproduced from books held at the Kippenberger Military Archive & Research Library, Waiouru.
MFC 940.41293 2000
First NZEF reserve & military defaulters - WWI [microfiche]
'Each roll is a copy (at the date when compiled -September 1916) of the register. for the district.
Full name, occupation and address of more than 85,000 men are included'-Introd.
MFC 940.4002593 1999
Queensland State Archives
http://www.archives.qld.gov.au/Researchers/Resources/Pages/First-World-War.aspx
This institution has a large collection of state government material relating to the government’s
response to the declaration of World War 1 and the following years. To commemorate the
centenary of the First World War, they are working to locate materials that showcase the
government’s activities during this time. This includes:
• digitised material,
• virtual exhibitions,
• index and
• First World War blog (http://blogs.archives.qld.gov.au/category/first-world-war/)
The Commonwealth War Graves Commission
http://www.cwgc.org/
The Register, searchable by name or by cemetery, contains information on 1.7 million dead
Commonwealth servicemen from the 2 World Wars covering:
• personal and service details
• places of commemoration
• a certificate including this information
The Commonwealth War Graves Commission has also released information on microfiche. This is
initially searchable by place then by name. Various sets of fiches, available at the Library, cover:
• The war dead of the Commonwealth: the register of the names of those who fell in the
Great War and are buried in Basra War Cemetery and Basra Indian Forces Cemetery, Iraq
(Contents : Pt 2 M-Z) MFC 940.465567 1988
• The war dead of the Commonwealth: the register of the names of those who fell in the
Great War and are buried in Haynecourt British Cemetery and Cantimpre Canadian
Cemetery Sailly (Nord), France MFC 940.4654428 1988
• The war dead of the Commonwealth: the register of the names of those who fell in the
Great War and are buried in Fins New British Cemetery, Sorel-le-Grand, France, 1914-
1918 MFC 940.4654426 1988
• The war dead of the Commonwealth: the register of the names of those who fell in the
Great War and are buried in the South-West Hainault Group of Cemeteries, Belgium
MFC 940.46549342 1988
• The war dead of the Commonwealth: the register of the names of those who fell in the
Great War and are buried in Spoilbank Cemetery, Larch Wood (Railway Cutting) Cemetery,
Tuileries British Cemetery and Zillebeke Churchyard, Zillebeke, and Railway Chateau
Cemetery, Vlamertinghe, Belgium
MFC 940.46549312 1988
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Page 3 of 11• The war dead of the Commonwealth: the register of the names of those who fell in the
Great War and are buried in Bard Cottage Cemetery, Boezinge, Belgium
MFC 940.46549312 1988
• The war dead of the Commonwealth: the register of the names of those who fell in the
Great War and are buried in Hamburg Cemetery, Ohlsdorf, Germany
MFC 940.46543515 1988
• The war dead of the Commonwealth: the register of the names of those who fell in the
Great War and are buried in La Brique Military Cemeteries Nos 1 and 2, Wieltje Farm
Cemetery and Buffs Road Cemetery, St. Jean-les-Ypres and La Belle Alliance Cemetery,
Boesinghe, Belgium MFC 940.46549312 1988
• The war dead of the Commonwealth : the register of the names of those who fell in the
Great War and are buried in Dozinghem Military Cemetery, Westvleteren, Belgium
MFC 940.46549312 1988
• The Ieper (Menin Gate) Memorial, Belgium: containing the names of those soldiers of the
Commonwealth who fell in Flanders during the Great War and having no known graves are
commemorated on the Menin Gate MFC 940.46549312 1988
• Pozieres Memorial France: bearing the names of those soldiers from the United Kingdom
and South Africa who fell in the Great War in the Fifth and Fourth Army areas, 21st March
to 7th August 1918, and whose graves are not known
MFC 940.4654426 1988
• Memorials to the naval ranks and ratings of the Commonwealth who fell in the Great War
and have no other grave than the sea: the register of the names inscribed on the memorial
at the Port of Plymouth (Pt 5 only held) MFC 940.46542358 1988
• The Ypres (Menin Gate) memorial register: containing the names of those soldiers of the
Commonwealth who fell in the Ypres Salient in the battles and engagements of 1914-17
and have no known graves (Pt 33 only held) MFC 940.46549312 1988
• Introduction to the register of the Vimy Memorial MFC 940.4654427 1988
• Thiepval Memorial, France: bearing the names of those sailors and soldiers from the United
Kingdom and South Africa who fell fighting on the Somme and the Ancre, 1916-1917, and
whose graves are not known (Pts 20, 38, 44 and 45only held)
MFC 940.4654426 1988
History and biography
This is a selection of what may be found at the State Library.
The official history of Australia in the war of 1914-1918 / by C. E. W. Bean ... [et al.].
V. 1. The story of ANZAC, from the outbreak of war to the end of the first phase of the
Gallipoli campaign, May 4, 1915;
V. 2. The story of ANZAC, from 4 May, 1915, to the evacuation of the Gallipoli Peninsula;
V. 3. The Australian Imperial Force in France, 1916;
V. 4. The Australian Imperial Force in France, 1917;
V. 5. The Australian Imperial Force in France, during the main German offensive, 1918;
V. 6. The Australian Imperial Force in France, during the Allied offensive, 1918;
V. 7. The Australian Imperial Force in Sinai and Palestine, 1914-1918 / by H. S. Gullett;
V. 8. The Australian Flying Corps, in the western and eastern theatres of war, 1914-1918 /
by F. M. Cutlack;
V. 9 The Royal Australian Navy: 1914-1918 / Arthur W Jose (not held at SLQ)
V. 10. The Australians at Rabaul, the capture and administration of the German possessions
in the southern Pacific / by S. S. MacKenzie;
V. 11. Australia during the war / by Ernest Scott;
V. 12. Photographic record of the war, reproductions of pictures taken by the Australian
official photographers / annotated by C. E. W. Bean and H. S. Gullett (14th ed.)
C E W Bean was a journalist before being Australia’s official war correspondent and this is
reflected in his aim of reaching a non-military audience. There is less concern with overall battle
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Page 4 of 11strategies and causes of the war which typified other nation’ war histories. Features of his writing
include very detailed narratives of battles and small biographies of 6 500 soldiers. He is credited
with developing the ANZAC legend and was a major force behind the Australian War Memorial.
He brought back one of the landing craft from the Gallipoli campaign, commissioned art works and
collected battlefield artefacts from 1916. The history, which he thought might take five years,
actually took twenty-three.
This history is also available via the Australian War Memorial website
http://www.awm.gov.au/histories/first_world_war/
REFJ 940.40994 OFF (Level 4) or OSG 940.394 1921-1942 (Level 3)
Broken nation : Australians in the Great War / Joanna Beaumont
This book covers all aspects of World War 1, from the home front to the battlefields.
940.394 2013
The Diggers, makers of the Australian military tradition : lives from the Australian dictionary
of biography / selected and condensed by Chris Coulthard-Clark
G 355.00922 1993
The Oxford companion to Australian military history / Peter Dennis ...
REF 355.00994 1995
Australasian biographical archive [microfiche]
This extensive collection of biographical extracts from many sources covers WWI individuals.
MFC 920 1990
The Great War : gains and losses - ANZAC and empire / Craig Wilcox, Janice Aldridge,
Australian War Memorial and Australian National University. Includes bibliographical references.
G 940.3 1995
An awfully big adventure : New Zealand World War One veterans tell their stories /
Jane Tolerton. The reminiscences and reflections of 80 veterans interviewed for the World War
One Oral History Archive.
940.393 2013
Shattered glory : the New Zealand experience at Gallipoli and the Western Front /
Matthew Wright. Includes bibliographical references (p.384-395) and index.
940.41293 2010
Queenslanders who fought in the Great War [CD-ROM] / Owen Wildman.
Brief biographies mostly with accompanying photographs are included. Originally published in
1919 with information supplied by relatives. It is now keyword searchable in this format.
QCFS 940.409943 2004
All-Australia Memorial: Victoria [CD-ROM] / George Pearce, Ellis Ashmead-Bartlett & Harry
Manderson
It includes over 1,000 double-tone illustrations from original photographs, drawings, maps,
portraits, etc. It is divided into 4 parts, which includes a biographical record of service and photos
of hundreds of Australia's fighting men
QCFS 940.394 2007
War services old Melburnians 1914-1918 [CD-ROM] / J Kiddle
It contains details of all 1353 members of the ‘Old Melburnians Society’ who fought in Gallipoli,
Egypt, Palestine, Mesopotamia, Salonkia, France, Belgium, Africa, and Rabaul.
QCFS 940.39451 2007
Australia’s fighting sons of the Empire (New South Wales and Queensland) [CD-ROM] /
It contains approximately 1800 biographies and photographs of New South Wales and
Queenslander soldiers who fought in the Great War. Information was supplied by family members.
QCFS 940.40994 2007
Tasmania's war record, 1914-1918 [CD-ROM] / L. Broinowski
It is a comprehensive record of Tasmanians in the First World War, and includes photos.
QCFS 940.409946 2005
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Page 5 of 11Indigenous participation in WWI
Biographical register of Queensland Aborigines who served in the Great War, 1914-1918 /
compiled by Rod Pratt
P 940.403 pra
Forgotten heroes : aborigines at war from the Somme to Vietnam /
Alick Jackomos and Derek Fowell
Q 940.403 jac
Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander volunteers for the AIF : the Indigenous response to
World War One / Philippa Scarlett
Includes a referenced alphabetical listing of men of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander heritage
who volunteered for the first AIF and bibliographical references.
Q 940.40994 SCA
Histories of battalions and specific services
Queensland battalions
Campaigning with the fighting 9th : (in and out of the line with the 9bn A.I.F.) 1914-1919 /
C. M. Wrench
G 940.41294 1985
History of the 15th Battalion Australian Imperial Forces : war 1914-1918 / by T. P. Chataway ;
revised and edited by Paul Goldenstedt
G 940.394 1948
Black over blue : the 25th Battalion, AIF at war 1915-1918 / Bob Doneley
G 940.41294 1997
Fromelles to Nauroy : 31st Battalion AIF 1915-1919 / Neville Browning
Included are Nominal Rolls, Honour Roll, Awards, Nominal Index and a detailed list of Prisoners of
War and their fate.
J 940.412 BRO
The Forty first
Cover subtitle: Being a record of the 41st Battalion A.I.F., during the Great War, 1914-18. Includes
roll of members.
G 940.41294 1990
The spirit of the Forty Second : narrative of the 42nd Battalion, 11th Infantry Brigade, 3rd
Division, Australian Imperial Forces, during the Great War, 1914-1918 / written and compiled
by Vivian Brahms
G 940.41294 1938
Always faithful : a history of the 49th Australian Infantry Battalion, 1916-1982 / F. Cranston
G 940.41294 1983
Other Australian battalions
The History of the First Battalion A.I.F. 1914-1919 /
G 355.31 198-
Nulli secundus : a history of the Second Battalion, A.I.F., 1914-1919 / compilators : F.W.
Taylor and T.A. Cusack ; foreword by Lt. Colonel E.E. Herrod
Facsimile edition. of: Sydney : New Century Press, 1942.
Honours and awards list - 2nd Battalion, A.I.F.:
G 940.41294 1992
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Page 6 of 11Forward with the Fifth : the story of five years' war service, Fifth Inf. Battalion, A.I.F. /
by A. W. Keown
GR 940.41294 1921
Silent voices : the story of the 10th Battalion AIF in Australia, Egypt, Gallipoli, France and
Belgium during the Great War 1914-1918 / by Robert Kearney
G 940.41294 2005
The story of the twelfth : a record of the 12th Battalion, A.I.F. during the Great War of 1914-
1918 / L. M. Newton
GSB 356.10994 2000
The history of the Fourteenth Battalion, A.I.F. : being the story of the vicissitudes of an
Australian unit during the Great War / by Newton Wanliss ; with a foreword by John Monash
CAG 940.41294 1929
The old sixteenth : being a record of the 16th Battalion, A.I.F., during the Great War, 1914-
1918 / by C. Longmore ; with foreword by Sir John Monash
CAG 940.412941 1929
The red and black diamond : the history of the 21st Battalion 1915-18 / Neil C. Smith
G 940.41294 1997
'With the Twenty-Second' : a history of the Twenty-Second Battalion, A.I.F /
by E. Gorman ; with an introduction by Sir W. R. Birdwood ; frontispiece by Will Dyson
CAG 940.41294 1919
Suvla to the Somme : the wartime letters of Bert Webster, R.A.N. Bridging Train & 23rd
Battalion, A.I.F. / Helen Mitchell
G 940.481 2001
The blue & white diamond : the history of the 28th Battalion 1915-1919 / by Neville Browning
G 940.3941 2002.
Never a backward step : a history of the First 33rd Battalion, AIF / John Edwards ; edited by
Patricia Edwards
G 940.41294 1996
The thirty-seventh : history of the thirty-seventh Battalion A.I.F. / by N. G. McNicol
CAG 940.412945 1936
The Thirty-ninth : the history of the 39th Battalion, Australian Imperial Force /
Includes nominal roll
J 940.412 pat
The fortieth : a record of the 40th Battalion, A.I.F. /
by F. C. Green ; with a foreword by Sir John Monash.
GR 940.4129423 1922
The forty-third : the story and official history of the 43rd Battalion, A.I.F. / narrative and
compilation by E.J. Colliver and B.H. Richardson ; foreword by Jas. H. Cannan
CAG 940.4129423 1920
The chronicle of the 45th Battalion A.I.F. / by Major J.E. Lee
Facsimile edition of: Sydney : Mortons Ltd, 1927.Offical nominal roll: p. 109-132
G 940.41294 1991
We were the 46th : the history of the 46th Battalion in the Great War of 1914-18 /
by Ian Leonard Polanski
G 940.41294 1
Leane's Battalion : the history of the 48th Battalion A.I.F. 1916-1919 / Neville Browning
This history includes Nominal Rolls, Honour Roll, Awards and Citations, Nominal Index and a
detailed list of P.O.W.s and their fate.
940.41294 2009
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Page 7 of 11Hurcombe's hungry half hundred : a memorial history of the 50th Battalion A.I.F. 1916-1919 /
compiled by R.R. Freeman Norwood, S. Aust : Peacock Publications, 1991
GSB 940.41294 1991
1914-18 war history of Nicholas Archibald Elphinstone, no. 2159 56th Battalion, 14 Brigade,
5th Division, 1st A.I.F / by K.M. Hayes
Q 940.4144 hay
The whale oil guards / by J. J. Kennedy
Includes an account of the 53rd Battalion
CAG 940.4120994 1919
The Light Horse
History of the 2nd Light Horse Regiment Australian Imperial Force August 1914 - April 1919
/ George Bourne & Sir Henry Chauvel
G 940.41294 1994
The Third Australian Light Horse Regiment, 1914-1918 : a short history and listing of those
who served /
G 940.41294 1994
History of the Fourth Light Horse Brigade, Australian Imperial Forces, War 1914-1918 and
Egyptian Rebellion 1919 / by G.W. Nutting
J 940.41294 nut
History of the Fifth Light Horse Regiment (Australian Imperial Force) from 1914 to October,
1917dby L. C. Wilson. and from October, 1917 to June 1919 / by H. Wetherell.
G 940.41294 1926
Under furred hats : 6th A. L. H. Regt. / by Geo L. Berrie
G 940.41294 1919
Maygar’s boys : a biographical history of the 8th Light Horse Regiment AIF 1914-19 /
Cameron Simpson.
Q 940.31294 SIM
History of the 11th Light Horse Regiment, Fourth Light Horse Brigade, Australian Imperial
Forces : War 1914-1919 / by Ernest W. Hammond
It contains nominal roll, roll of honour and a list of commendations awarded.
G 940.41294 1942
Thunder of the hooves : a history of 12 Light Horse Regiment 1915-1919 / Kenneth Hollis
12 Australian Light Horse Regiment was formed at Holsworth, NSW, in 1915. This book tells of the
leading roles played out by the regiment at Beesheba, Gallipoli and Damascus.
J 357.099 HOL
ANZAC Light Horse & NZ Mounted Rifles in pictures, 1914-1919. Volume 1 : a photographic
volume compiled from original unit histories of selected Australian Light Horse regiments
and New Zealand Mounted Rifles
It covers the Fifth Light Horse Regiment, the 7th Light Horse Regiment, the Ninth Light Horse
Regiment, the Tenth Light Horse Regiment, 11th Light Horse Regiment, and the New Zealand
Mounted Riflemen in Sinai and Palestine.
J 940.41294 ANZ
Air Force
Flying squadrons of the Australian Defence Force / Steve Eather
G 940.544994 1995
Highest traditions : the history of No. 2 Squadron RAAF / John Bennett
G 358.4130994 1995
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The Australian army medical services in the war of 1914-1918 / by A.G. Butler
It is also available on the War memorial website. http://www.awm.gov.au/histories/first_world_war/
G 940.475 1930
Gallipoli : the medical war : the Australian Army medical services in the Dardanelles
campaign of 1915 / Michael B. Tyquin
G 940.47594 1993
The body snatchers : the history of the 3rd Australian Field Ambulance, 1914-1918 /
Sue Austin and Ron Austin
G 940.47594 1995
Just wanted to be there : Australian Service nurses, 1899-1999 /
G 355.3450994 1999
Scarlet poppies : the army experience of Australian nurses during World War One /
Ruth Rae.
G 940.47594 2004
Nightingales in the mud : the Digger sisters of the Great War, 1914-1918 /
Marianne Barker
G 940.47594 1989
Newspapers
The State Library holds an extensive collection of Queensland newspapers as well as major
interstate and overseas papers. The list may be searched by place or title using handbooks held at
the Desk in the Micrographics reading room on Level 3.
These can be an excellent way of finding information about individuals in a particular area. Local
heroes were celebrated and their photographs were displayed in the paper.
The Queenslander, a weekly newspaper, included pages of individual, small portraits of soldiers as
they embarked for overseas. Photographs of a contingent at the time of leaving and a feature
article were also often included. These individual portraits have been indexed in a card catalogue
held in the Heritage reading room on Level 4, plus a typed list is available at the Desk in the
Micrographics Reading Room on Level 3. The Queenslander is on open access in the
Micrographics Reading Room on Level 3.
Digitised newspapers online
You may also be able to find stories and/or photos relating to World War 1 and the people who
served through the following online resources:
Historic Australian Newspapers, http://trove.nla.gov.au/newspaper, available through the National
Library of Australia. It includes publications from all States.
Papers Past, http://paperspast.natlib.govt.nz/cgi-bin/paperspast, made available through the
National Library of New Zealand. It includes publications from all regions of New Zealand.
Databases http://www.slq.qld.gov.au/search/eresources/search-databases
(Log in from home if you are a Queensland resident, using your library card or QPL account)
Irish Newspaper Archive – A digitised collection of around 40 historical and current newspapers
from Ireland dating back to the 18th century.
Times Digital Archives - Complete digital edition of The Times (London), searchable by keyword,
and including all articles, advertisements plus illustrations and photos.
Onsite only at library - British Newspaper Archives – features more than 200 newspaper titles
from every part of the UK and Ireland, which mainly date from the 19th century, but include runs
dating back to the first half of the 18th century. Registration (free) is required to use this database
so clients will need a current email address.
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The First World War : personal experiences
Containing digital images of primary source documents from archives around the world -- a wide
range of original documents, including diaries, letters, personal narratives, trench journals,
scrapbooks, objects, and a wealth of visual sources, this resource provides a rich seam of
information on personal experiences of war. Supplementing the primary sources is a wealth of
secondary resources including interactive maps, 360° panoramas and walk-throughs of the
Sanctuary Wood Trench System, the Memory Wall, In Their Own Words feature, scholarly essays,
a slideshow gallery, chronology and glossaries. It Includes materials relating to the following
theatres of war and battlefields: Western Front, Eastern Front, Africa, Middle East, Greece,
Gallipoli, Salonika, Dardanelles, Algeria, Serbia, Russia, Netherlands, Italy, Poland, Belgium,
Czechoslovakia, Armenia, Balkans, Arras, Ypres, Somme, and Cambrai. It also includes materials
by or about the armed forces of: Britain, France, Belgium, Poland, Germany, United States,
Canada, Australia, and New Zealand.
FindMyPast, available onsite only at the State Library
It contains searchable WW1 records for Australia, New Zealand, United Kingdom and Ireland. The
records are located under ‘Armed Forces and Conflict’.
Ancestry, available onsite only at the State Library
It holds some searchable WW1 records for USA, UK, Canada, Australia, and New Zealand among
other European records.
Websites
51 links for Australian military history and research
http://www.gouldgenealogy.com/2011/12/51-links-for-australian-military-history-and-research/
Alona Tester collated these sites in December 2011. They cover the Boer War, WW1 and 11.
Facebook sites are also included
Australian ANZACs in the Great War 1914-1918
https://www.aif.adfa.edu.au/index.html
This database has been created from a variety of publicly available resources, and as such may
not be a complete record of all who served.
Australian War Graves Photographic Archive
http://www.australianwargraves.org/
"The Australian War Graves Photographic Archive is committed to digitally photographing every
Australian War Grave and Memorial Commemoration of Australia's Armed Forces."
Can ‘Search the Archive’ for war graves. It is an educational site for people who are interested in
material on WWI and WWII.
Australians at war
http://www.australiansatwar.gov.au/
Australians at war commemorates the service and sacrifice of Australia's veterans over the past
one hundred years. The site complements the ABC television series of the same name.
Digger history : an unofficial history of the Australian & New Zealand Armed
Services.
http://www.diggerhistory.info/00-pages-top-level/master-index.htm
"This site covers all conflicts with details of Australian and New Zealand soldiers as well as enemy
soldiers. It includes information about uniforms, medals, posters and signs, badges, armour,
military history, memorials, colours and flags, planes, tanks, weapons, food, nurses, poetry, and
humour."
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Page 10 of 11World War I Document Archive
http://wwi.lib.byu.edu/
Principally contains copies of documents relating to World War I, such as treaties, conventions and
official papers. It also contains a wealth of other war related material, such as personal memoirs,
accounts of the medical service, biographical data, and war images.
Blogs
State Library of Queensland
Queensland's World War 1 Centenary - http://blogs.slq.qld.gov.au/ww1/
Queensland State Archives
First World War blog - http://blogs.archives.qld.gov.au/category/first-world-war/)
Australian War Memorial
Blog - https://www.awm.gov.au/blog/
The National Archives (Great Britain)
First World War - http://blog.nationalarchives.gov.uk/blog/tag/first-world-war/
University of Oxford
World War I : Continuations and beginnings - http://ww1centenary.oucs.ox.ac.uk/
The British Library
World War One - http://www.bl.uk/world-war-one
Guides
There are many guides to assist in researching military history. Two which may provide a starting
point are listed below.
A soldier in the family : a source book for Australian military genealogy : the First Fleet to
the Gulf War / Allan Box
It covers the span of Australia’s military involvement from colonial days and provides detailed
information on how to research a military person. The internet had yet to make its impact but it still
has a compact collection of useful information.
FAMHIS 929.1072 1994
Digging for diggers : a guide to researching an Australian soldier of the Great War, 1914-
1918 / Graeme Hosken
Find some ideas for Queensland research.
G 929.1072 2002
Need further information?
State Library of Queensland, Queensland Cultural Centre, Stanley Place, South Bank, Level 3,
Information Services. t. +61 7 3840 7810, w. http://www.slq.qld.gov.au/services/ask-us
Visit http://www.slq.qld.gov.au/resources/family-history/info-guides to access all family history Info
Guides.
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