25 April 2015 – Centenary of ANZAC Day Commemorations
Research
ANZAC Centenary - WWI Research Information Links
If you are wanting to research ANZAC enlistees, or researching soldiers killed or wounded in WWI, the Australian War Memorial has provided the following information:
The best place to start looking for people based on the Town where they were born or enlisted is on the Discovering ANZACs site run by the National Archives of Australia: http://discoveringanzacs.naa.gov.au/browse/places.
Once you have identified the people, you can then check their service records to see whether they were killed or wounded.
There is no single easy way to find everyone killed or wounded from a particular town; this generally will involve researching in their personal service records, which are linked from the entries in Discovering Anzacs.
Personal service records are the authoritative record of an individual’s service, and are held by the National Archives of Australia. The First World War service records have been digitised and can be viewed online: http://www.naa.gov.au.
To find people based on their address when they enlisted, you can consult the AIF Project, which allows searching based on residential address: https://www.aif.adfa.edu.au/index.html. The individual entries in this database should indicate if someone was killed.
There is more detailed guidance, including other potential sources you can try, available from AWM information sheet on researching names for an honour roll, which is available here:https://www.awm.gov.au/research/infosheets/honour-boards/.
If you have any questions, please contact:
Australian War Memorial: Email: [email protected], Phone: (02) 6243 4315, Fax: (02) 6243 4545,Address: GPO Box 345 Canberra ACT 2601, Website: www.awm.gov.au
National Archives of Australia: Email: [email protected], Phone: (02) 6212 3600, Address: PO Box 7425, Canberra Business Centre ACT 2610.
If you are wanting to research ANZAC enlistees, or researching soldiers killed or wounded in WWI, the Australian War Memorial has provided the following information:
The best place to start looking for people based on the Town where they were born or enlisted is on the Discovering ANZACs site run by the National Archives of Australia: http://discoveringanzacs.naa.gov.au/browse/places.
Once you have identified the people, you can then check their service records to see whether they were killed or wounded.
There is no single easy way to find everyone killed or wounded from a particular town; this generally will involve researching in their personal service records, which are linked from the entries in Discovering Anzacs.
Personal service records are the authoritative record of an individual’s service, and are held by the National Archives of Australia. The First World War service records have been digitised and can be viewed online: http://www.naa.gov.au.
To find people based on their address when they enlisted, you can consult the AIF Project, which allows searching based on residential address: https://www.aif.adfa.edu.au/index.html. The individual entries in this database should indicate if someone was killed.
There is more detailed guidance, including other potential sources you can try, available from AWM information sheet on researching names for an honour roll, which is available here:https://www.awm.gov.au/research/infosheets/honour-boards/.
If you have any questions, please contact:
Australian War Memorial: Email: [email protected], Phone: (02) 6243 4315, Fax: (02) 6243 4545,Address: GPO Box 345 Canberra ACT 2601, Website: www.awm.gov.au
National Archives of Australia: Email: [email protected], Phone: (02) 6212 3600, Address: PO Box 7425, Canberra Business Centre ACT 2610.