A number of Australian organisations provide information and digital resources about service people and their experiences.
The State Library of Victoria has a project to digitise World War I unit histories -http://handle.slv.vic.gov.au/10381/90000
A major NAA project was Mapping our Anzacs. This has now been absorbed into Discovering Anzacs - http://discoveringanzacs.naa.gov.au/
Discovering Anzacs is a database of service people who enlisted in Australia and New Zealand and provides digital copies of their service records. Information about those who served in the Boer War will also be added. Registered users of Discovering Anzacs can transcribe records, add key data from the military records to the summary for a serviceman and upload images and stories. There is also a detailed timeline of events during the Boer War and World War I.
The Australian War Memorial is another essential site for information about Australian military history. - https://www.awm.gov.au/
The website includes a section for those doing family history research.
The Australian War Memorial website has digitised copies of the official histories for World War I and World War II.
First World War diaries have also been digitised
Many sites exist for recording military information. One site is Forces War Records - http://www.forces-war-records.co.uk
This British site is a subscription website containing information about British service people serving in many wars including Crimean War, Napoleonic wars, Boer War, World War I and World War II. There is no cost involved in searching the index but you need to subscribe to view the information.
I did take out a one month subscription to view the information for some family members who served in the Crimean War. The information provided was limited, mainly where they served and any medals awarded to them. The site has a section on military medals which may be useful. -
http://www.forces-war-records.co.uk/Medals
A recent feature is the provision of war diaries that have been digitised and may be downloaded for no charge - http://www.forces-war-records.co.uk/Library/Search?category=War+Diary.
This British site is a subscription website containing information about British service people serving in many wars including Crimean War, Napoleonic wars, Boer War, World War I and World War II. There is no cost involved in searching the index but you need to subscribe to view the information.
http://www.forces-war-records.co.uk/Medals
A recent feature is the provision of war diaries that have been digitised and may be downloaded for no charge - http://www.forces-war-records.co.uk/Library/Search?category=War+Diary.
Hi Vicki, thanks for the great post. You may also be interested in the "Inside History" magazine project World War One Link which launches in November and will be a central register for WW1 projects. This will be a good place for both public libraries and local history groups to resgister their events.
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The State Library of Victoria also have a lot of aerial photos in their collection which they are currently digitising. These are a good resource to use in conjunction with maps
ReplyDeleteThe State Library of Victoria has digitised a collection of military aerial photographs. To view the digitised items, type aerial photographs in the search box and when the first screen of images appears select the Show Only Online Resources option. The column on the left can be used to further refine the search in the Refine the Search by Subject scction.
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