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- 42nd Australian Infantry Battalion 1939/45 - Continuation of the story of the efforts of the 42nd Battalion. Deals with WW2. Plenty of photos and also Japanese weapons and equipment. Weapons,tanks,planes, maps, documents and an Honour Roll. Very comprehensive.
au.geocities.com/thefortysecondinww2
- 42nd Battalion AIF & 42nd AIB Honour Roll - 554 Officers & men fell with the 42nd Battalion AIF in WWI and 63 more fell in WW2 serving in the 42nd Australian Infantry Battalion. Here are the names, dates, burial places and next of kin details. Lots of photos of the 82 different War Cemeteries that provide a final resting place.
au.geocities.com/thefallenofthe42nd
- 42nd Battalion AIF 1916/19 - An Australian Infantry Battalion in WW1 with details of the men, medals, weapons and the enemy. A comprehensive look at what life was like in the trenches.The site is rich with images and contains the Battalion History written in 1938.
au.geocities.com/fortysecondbattalion
- Anzac Research - A site dedicated to the Anzacs of World War One. Lists peoples' interests in different units, formations, etc., and contains a selection of photographs; some identified, some waiting for identification.
www.diggerz.org/users/anzacs
- Anzacs of the 5th Light Horse Regiment, AIF 1914 - 1919 - A biographic listing of each of the 2,543 soldiers who served with the 5th (Queensland and northern NSW) Light Horse Regiment during the Great War, 1914 - 1919. Includes those who were not actually 'taken on strength' of the regiment, as well as those who transferred in from, or out to, other units.
balder.prohosting.com/anzacs/index.html
- Anzacs: Officers died at Gallipoli, 1915 - Biographic details of approximately 500 officers of the Anzac Corps who died due to service on the Gallipoli Peninsula, Turkey, in 1915. Photographs and maps as well as details on how eligible families may apply for an Anzac commemorative medallion.
www.surfline.ne.jp/3dolans/Anzac%20Pages/Index.html
- Aussie Korean War Combat Photo-Story Album - Personal photos and tales by Australian Korean War veterans.
www.kmike.com/oz
- Australia's Involvement in the UN - A site dedicated to Australians who have served as Peacekeepers or Peacemakers around the world.
www.diggerz.org/~austun/default.htm
- Australia's involvement in UN peace-keeping missions - Maintained by a former Australian peace-keeper to Cambodia. It has details of the United Nations missions in which Australia has been, and is currently, involved.
www.diggerz.org/index.php
- Australian Army Formation Signs (TAC Signs) - The 1st and 2nd AIF both used formation signs (TAC Signs) to identify bases, vehicles and property. This is a full listing of them taken directly from the Australian Army documents. These are the genuine article not reproductions. Also there is some camouflage detail.
au.geocities.com/digger_history_tac_signs
- Australian Memorial Pages - Commemorates Australian Vietnam Veterans. Tells the story of the Australian involvement in Vietnam, with photos, and provides a list of veterans' organisations.
www.geocities.com/ozvets/main.html
- Australian Non Military War Badges - Australia had a lot of badges for civilians and former sailors, soldiers,airmen and nurses. It also had badges for men who had volunteered but were not allowed to enlist and for people who worked in war related activities.See many of them here
au.geocities.com/digger_history_nmwb
- Australian Service Nurses National Memorial - A developing list of Australian nurses who have died during, or as a result of, war service in any conflict since the Boer War.
members.optushome.com.au/lenorefrost/nurses.html
- Australian War Graves in South Africa 1899 - 1902 - A project which aims to publish a database of burial and memorial locations of all Australians who died during the second Anglo-Boer War in South Africa, 1899 - 1902.
www.hagsoc.org.au/sagraves/index.html
- Australian War Graves Photographic Archive - Creating a virtual Australian National War Grave Archive Web Site containing a digital photograph of every Australian War Grave and Memorial Commemoration of Armed Forces Personnel deceased through service of their country.
www.australianwargraves.org
- Australian War Memorial - One of the great military museums of the world. Covers Australian involvement in conflicts since the Maori Wars of the 1860s. Contains online databases of all official and private records, art, sound recordings, film and photographs held by the memorial. Visits to the memorial and / or its research section may be planned, and items ordered either from this section or from the museum's shop.
www.awm.gov.au
- Australian WW1 Personnel Service Records - National Archives of Australia's online order form for personnel records. Use this to obtain a copy of the complete service dossier of any Australian soldier, sailor, airman or nurse of the Great War.
www.naa.gov.au/forms/service_record_request.html
- Australians serving in the Boer War, South Africa (1899-1902) - Many Australians have a Boer War soldier in their ancestry. This site is intended to guide, inform and entertain those just starting the hunt as well as the more experienced researcher.
carmen.murdoch.edu.au/community/dps/military/index.html
- Boer War - Australians who served database project - The Australians in the Boer War (Oz-Boer) Database Project marks the centenary of the participation by Australia in the Second Anglo-Boer War by making it easier to locate source materials dealing with individual Australian participants.
www.pcug.org.au/~croe/oz_boer0.htm
- Burgess, Chris - Information about the Second World War and a soldier named Jeff Burgess, who found some letters on a Japanese soldier and a picture of his girlfriend. Also a picture gallery of Australia.
www.australiansoldier.com
- Diary of an Australian soldier of the Great War - Lance Corporal Reg. Part, a signaller with the 24th Battalion, A.I.F., served at Gallipoli and on the Western Front. He kept a diary which has been reproduced on this site.
www.scotch.sa.edu.au/WarDiary/RegPart.html
- Digger History WW2 Changi POW Camp - Changi is notorious as a "hell hole" but did it really earn that reputation? This site looks at the facts and trys to provide a clear and balanced view of an emotive subject. Lots of photos and maps. Some audio using Windows Media Player.
au.geocities.com/digger_history_ww2
- Digger History; Australia at War - All conflicts are covered in this MASSIVE site (350 pages) with details of Australian and enemy soldiers, uniforms, medals, equipment, planes, tanks, weapons, poetry, battles, units, leaders and maps. Probably the most comprehensive site on the subject and LOTS of fast load photos.
au.geocities.com/digger_history
- First AIF Order of Battle - The Order of Battle of the Australian Imperial Force, 1914 - 1919. Lists in detail the units composing the army raised in Australia for overseas service (the A.I.F.) during the course of the Great War. Includes the Gallipoli (Dardanelles), Middle East and Western Front theatres.
www.adfa.edu.au/~rmallett/index.html
- Following the Australians on the Western Front - An account of the author's travels through what was the Western Front, tracing the movements of his grandfather who fought there. Private Robert Ralph Abercromby, 44th Battalion A.I.F., also kept a diary, which is quoted at intervals throughout the narrative.
www.hellfire-corner.demon.co.uk/abercromby.htm
- Gallipoli 1915 - A concise account of the unsuccessful attempts by the Royal Navy and French Navy to force the Dardanelles, and of the consequent landing on the Gallipoli Peninsula by the British, French, Indians and Anzacs.
www.geocities.com/Broadway/Alley/5443/gall.htm
- Gallipoli Anzac Helles Suvla - Photos of Gallipoli then and now, a dictionary of Anzac slang, and some unusual photos of devices designed to fool the enemy. Account of how the author and his friend re-discovered a Turkish position on the southern Anzac flank. Also information on the 1/5th Norfolk Regiment, 'The Vanished Battalion' of Gallipoli.
user.glo.be/~snelders/index.html
- Gallipoli medical site - Examines the medical aspects of the Gallipoli campaign. Arrangements for evacuation and treatment of the wounded, the spread of disease, and the poor, monotonous diet are covered, and the effects these had on morale and the outcome of the campaign are investigated.
www.cimm.jcu.edu.au/hist/aif/gallip.htm
- Gallipoli; a glimpse of Turkey - A journey through Turkey in the form of a photographic essay. Includes photos of Turkey generally, as well as a number of the battlefields of the Anzac sector, Gallipoli Peninsula, as they appear today.
www.ptr.co.nz/turkey/index.html
- Gallipoli; History of the Anzacs - Contains contributed pages from other web sites, with links back to these, covering such topics as 'The Last Anzacs', 'Anzac Graves' and the 'Botched Landing'.
www.anzacday.org
- In memory of Norman Henry Sohier - Dedicated to the memory of Private Henry Sohier, 4th Battalion, A.I.F., killed in action at Gallipoli, Turkey, on 13th July 1915. Includes family photos, WW1 photos and links for the genealogist researching Anzac ancestors.
anzac.homestead.com
- Indigenous Australians At War - Research into Australian Aboriginal servicemen in the defence of Australia. Provides information on a not-well-known aspect of Australian military history.
www.fortunecity.com/meltingpot/statuepark/620/index.html
- Men of Anzac - John Simpson Kirkpatrick - A page about and dedicated to John Simpson Kirkpatrick, a stretcher-bearer with the 3rd Field Ambulance, Australian Army Medical Corps, remembered as "the man with the donkey". Killed in action at Gallipoli, 19 May 1915.
www.anzachouse.com/simpson.shtml
- Military Historical Society of Australia - The MHSA site contains details of membership, back-issues of its journal 'Sabretache,' and articles covering all wars in which Australia has been involved.
www.tip.net.au/~astaunto/mhsa.htm
- Royal Australian Regiment - Service in Vietnam by the Australian Infantry Battalions of the RAR. A short but well laid out and reasonably comprehensive report of the 9 Battalions, their weapons and equipment, their tours of duty and what it was like in the "Funny Country".
www.ausvets.com.au/vietnam/rarviet.htm
- Royal Military College (RMC) Duntroon - The life and experiences of staff cadets at Australia's Royal Military College Duntroon, Canberra, during the 1960's. Includes details of military and academic training, traditions, routines, legends, and of more contoversial topics. Includes many photos and links. Created by several staff cadets and graduates who served in the Australian Army at the time.
mywebpage.netscape.com/rmcduntroon
- The Anzac Day Commemoration Committee of Queensland - Information for schools concerning the role played by Australian forces in war. Helps to organise the annual Anzac Day ceremonies in Queensland. Hosts articles related to different aspects of the Australian experience of war.
www.anzacday.org.au
- The Australian Commemorative Plaques Project. - Ross Bastiaan was awarded the Medal of the Order of Australia (OAM) for his single-handed work in placing - all over the world - over 100 large bronze plaques commemorating the sites of Australia's finest military achievements. Not only did Ross - whose site this is - place the plaques voluntarily, he also personally hand sculpted each of them and conducted the fund-raising and negotiations necessary for such a large project.
www.plaques.satlink.com.au
- The Australian Warbirds Association - A non profit company for aircraft owners, operators, restorers, maintainers, historians and enthusiasts to share their passion for ex-military aviation, and to promote and preserve Australia's proud military aviation heritage.
www.australianwarbirds.com.au
- The Battle for Australia - A site that dedicates itself to providing a full yet concise picture of the dark days in Australia's life when invasion by Japanese land and naval forces seemed more than possible. All the important battles are here and the layout allows you to easily get to your point of interest.
www.battleforaustralia.org.au/index.html
- The Gallipoli Association - The Association's objective is to preserve the memory of the men who served in, and commemorate the events of the Great War campaign on, the Gallipoli peninsula, Turkey, between April 1915 and January 1916.
www.gallipoli-association.org
- The Gun Plot - History of the Royal Australian Navy, covering WW1 and Gallipoli, WW2, Malaya, Korea, Indonesia and Vietnam. Provides details of warships, weapons, battles and heroes.
www.gunplot.net
- The Light Horse Association - Few Australian military units create as much interest as the Light Horse. This site is a well designed and informative one with lots of factual information about their activities including the famous "last great cavalry charge" at Beersheba. All aspects of the life of a Mounted Infantry Regiment are well covered.
www.lighthorse.org.au
- The Military Photograph Museum And Registry of Australia - A growing collection of Australian military photographs including portraits of those who served. Special software (suitable only for Windows) must be downloaded from the site and used to access the photographs.
members.aol.com/ForCountry/austral.htm
- The Shrine of Remembrance - Located in Melbourne, the shrine commemorates the lives lost in the Great War of 1914-1918.
www.shrine.org.au
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