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Military

This section has been expanded to include all Australian and New Zealand sites that relate to the military forces.

Boer War

The centenary of the beginning of the Boer War is in October 1999

Australian contingents to the Boer War People looking for information on Australians involved in the Second Anglo-Boer War (1899-1902) can now search online for references that mention them.

The Commonwealth War Graves Commission - They have a searchable database of the Commonwealth dead ( Aust. Canada, India, NZ, Sth Africa, UK and Colonies) of WWI & WW2 called their "Debt of Honour Register"

Defending Victoria
This site also has other things such as Gallipoli, WW1, Eureka, Nurses, NZ Maori Wars, so is a good one to look at.

Boer War
facts at the Australian National Archives.

Tasmanians serving in the Boer War

WW I
A.N.Z.A.C. Memories

ANZAC Day Commemoration Committee (Queensland) includes about 30 articles that may be worthwhile for researchers and will be advantageous to school students

ANZAC's in France Somme, a land of history, in both french and english

Officers at Gallipoli

ANZAC

Light Horse Association Ltd.

10th Light horse Regiment

16th Battalions The outstanding history of the Western Australian 16th Battalion begins with the Great War Compiled by Neville Browning

Trenches on the Web
dedicated to WWI

WW II

460 Squadron RAAF
Australians serving in WWII

VIETNAM

104 Signal Squadron - Vietnam 1968
a series of photos

17 Construction Squadron Workshops
Includes full list of those who served April 1966 to November 1972.

Three troop 1 Field Squadron, Royal Australian Engineers
includes a lost of those who served 28 Oct 1969 to 29 October 1970.

Sunraysia Vietnam Veterans a non-political, non-affiliated look at Vietnam

Vietnam Veterans Links

DEFENCE FORCES

Australian Navy It has a history section that you can view ship histories & email them at Navy.History@dao.defence.gov.au You need to give them at least a name & a ship. If you already know the ship & your ancestors full name you can request the service records from Sailors Records section, Department of Defence, Russell Offices D-2-25, Canberra ACT 2600

MILITARY IN GENERAL

Australian Airforce and Navy badges and Tampions
pictures of the badges and tampions.

Regiments and Corps of AUSTRALIALinks lead to a dedicated regimental page. Bold face links indicate "added value" such as lists of battle honours, lists of colonels, etc. has been completed on the regimental page

Australian War Medals

Australian War Memorial
Includes a roll of Honor for WWI, Africa and WWII until now. This on-line searchable database is a must see for your military ancestors who died in a war. Further databases include 190,000 photos and 4,000 art.

Commonwealth War Graves Commission
Can give location, condition, and other information regarding the Commonwealth soldiers graves in their care.

First AIF Order of Battle 1914-1918

Gallipoli Medal how to claim

Illawarra at war
with emphasis on military history

Internee, POW & alien records WWI

Internee, POW & alien records WWII

Macleods of Tamworth

The Military Historical Society of Australia

Alternative site for data
Office of Australian War Graves

Queensland defence forces

Regiments and Corps of the AUSTRALIAN ARMY

Researching Armed Services Personnel

REX, Lt. Horace J.

REGIMENTS

First Queensland Regiment
Queensland military history.

10th Light horse Regiment

39th Battalion
a text file

AVIATION

"G" for George
The Avro Lancaster B1 on display in the Aeroplane Hall at the Australian War Memorial in Canberra, ACT, Australia

NEW ZEALAND
New Zealand Defence Forces, 1860 - 1883

New Zealand Fighter Pilots Museum

OTHER SOURCES

Fact Sheet 63 from Australian Archives (May 1998)lists the following addresses for Sources of information about military service:

WWI Personnel Records, National Archives of Australia, P O Box 7425, Canberra Mail Centre ACT 2610: email ww1prs@naa.gov.au

Army service during WWII and more recent campaigns and medal entitlements for all campaigns
Soldier Career Managemet Agency, G P O Box 393 D Melbourne Vic 3001

Boer War (South Africa War) nominal rolls & service dossiers; Permanent Military Forces (PMF) dossiers:
Melbourne Archives Centre, Casselden Place, 2 Lonsdale St, Melbourne Vic 3000 email: refvic@naa.gov.au

Citations, photogaphs, nominal and embarkation rolls, and unit diaries for WWI, WWII and later conflicts:
Australian War Memorial, G P O Box 345, Canberra ACT 2601 email info@awm.gov.au internet address: http://www.awm.gov.au

ADFA WWI Database ($25 per enquiry for a consolidated statement of service suitable for framing, together with a full prinout of information held on th database):
The AIF Project, Department of History, University College, Australian Defence Force Academy, Canberra ACT 2600 email: p-dennis@adfa.oz.au internet address: http://www.adfa.oz.au/HISTORY/

The Colour Sergeant Home Page of Military Living History and Re-enacting in Victoria, Australia.

Navy, RAAF, War Graves, pension entitlements and British service records and the Military Historical Society of Australia:

Naval records - Directorate of Sailors' Career management D-2-26, Department of Defence (Navy Office), Russell Offices, Canberra ACT 2600

War Graves - The Office of Australian War Graves, Department of Veterans' Affairs, P O Box 21, Woden ACT 2606

Military Historical Society, Federal Secretary, Military Historical Society of Austalia, P O Box 30, Garran ACT 2605

RAAF Records, National Archives of Australia, P O Box 7425, Canberra Mail Centre ACT 2610

Pension Entitlements - Veterans' Affairs Network, Department of Veterans' Affairs, G P O Box 802, Canberra ACT 2601

British Service - Army Records Centre, 2a Bourne Ave, Hayes, Middlesex UB3 1RF, United Kingdom.