Fowler, Simon. Tracing your army ancestors / Simon Fowler Pen & Sword Military Barnsley, England 2006.
Call number: RX 929.1072 F788
FIRST WORLD WAR
For help with locating records and information on Australians who served in the First World War see also our First World War research guide page on Finding a soldier.
Finding the family redcoat : tracing your British military ancestors in Australia / Lieutenant Colonel Neil C. Smith, AM Unlock the Past St Agnes, SA 2013
FURTHER READING
The following publications are held in our reference collection:
Digging for diggers: a guide to researching an Australian soldier of the Great War, 1914-1918
Call number:
RX 929.1072 H826
That elusive digger: tracing your Australian military ancestors
Call number:
RX 940.394 S655
Online
Ancestry (Library edition)
Visit the eResources portal, click the Browse eResources tab and search for 'ancestry'.
The Library's subscription to Ancestry currently includes the following Australian-related 'Military' resources via its online database.
- Australia's Fighting Sons of The Empire. Portraits and Biographies of Australians in the Great War
- New South Wales, Australia, Cowra Military Camps Personnel Photo Index, 1905-1970
- ANZAC Memorial, 1914-1918
- Australia, WWI Service Records, 1914-1920
Findmypast (World edition)
Visit the eResources portal, click the Browse eResources tab and search for 'findmypast'.
Currently, Findmypast has the following Australian -related 'Armed Forces & Conflict' records available:
- Australian Imperial Force Nominal Roll 1914 - 1918
- Australasian Imperial Expeditionary Forces Roll Of Honour
- Australian Imperial Force Embarkation Roll 1914-1918
- All Australia Memorial
- Australia’s Fighting Sons of the Empire (NSW – QLD)
- Australian Contingent
- Australian Contingents to South Africa
- British Garrison deserters in South Australia
- Education Department War Service
- New South Wales Roll Of Honour
- New Zealand Boer War servicemen
- New Zealand Division
- New Zealand War Medal Roll
- New Zealand Wars: Maori Campaigns
- New Zealand World War 1 Soldiers
- New Zealanders and The Boer War
- Queenslanders Who Fought in Great War
- British Army Service Records 1760 – 1915
Selected Websites
There are a number of other useful websites for locating military records and other information about Australians who served in military conflicts and records of British soldiers in Australia in the early days of settlement. The following are a small selection:
Pre-World War 1
- Defence and war service records (National Archives of Australia) - archival and other records about Australians and New Zealanders in World War I and the Boer War
- Official records of the Australian military contingents to the war in South Africa, 1899-1902 (Australian War Memorial)
- Pre First World War Conflicts Nominal Rolls (Australian War Memorial)
- Oz-Boer database
World War 1
- Defence and war service records (National Archives of Australia) - archival and other records about Australians and New Zealanders in World War I and the Boer War
- The AIF Project: Australian Anzacs in the Great War - provide details on the 330,000 men and women who served overseas in the (First) Australian Imperial Force, 1914-1918.
- First World War Nominal Roll
- First to Fall
World War 2
- World War II Nominal Roll
- RAAF World War 2 fatalities (Australian War Memorial)
Korean War
- Nominal Roll of Australian Veterans of the Korean War - provides information from the service records of individuals who served during the Korean War
Other
- Military Historical Society of Australia
- Digger History - an unofficial history of the Australian & New Zealand Armed Services
- Australian Army History Unit
- The War Graves Photographic project
- ACT Memorial
- Official histories of Australia at war (Australian War Memorial)
Networked resources in the Library
In addition to our subscription databases, the Library also provides access to the CDROM resources:
- Australian military contingents to the war in South Africa 1899-1902
- First to Fall: Killed in Action 25 April 1915 - available via our eResources portal and searching in the Browse eResources tab
- RAAF World War 2 fatalities
- Australasian Military History Database - MIHILIST
Microfilmed and other published material
The following microfilmed products and published works are available on open access in the Newspapers and Microforms Reading Room:
- The British Army in Australia 1788-1870 Index of personnel
This index shows the names and regiment(s) for each serving person. Use the regiment number to follow through a soldier's records in the AJCP WO12 Muster Books and Pay Lists
Microfiche compartment 7, Call Number mc N 1440 - Redcoats Down Under 1788-1870
1. 39th Dorset Regiment of Foot
2. 46th 5th Devonshire Regiment of Foot
Microfiche compartment 8, Call Number mc N 752 - Muster Books and Pay Lists WO12 AJCP
Request microfilm reels(s) via the Library's catalogue.
See our AJCP handbook to the War Office (WO) in our Reading Room to identify correct reel(s).
Smith, Fred T., Composer.
The soldier and his child [music]
1915 - 1918 (7 pages)
AWM
The Australian War Memorial provides biographical databases such as nominal commemorative and honour rolls, honours and awards, Australian Army war diaries, wounded missing and prisoner of war files and general information about Australian involvement in overseas conflict and peacekeeping.
War on the Veldt : tracing your Australian military ancestors in the Boer War 1899-1902 / Neil C. King Smith Unlock the Past St Agnes, SA 2014
Call number: RX 929.1072 S655
DEPARTMENT OF VETERANS' AFFAIRS
The Department of Veterans' Affairs publishes nominal rolls covering conflicts in which Australia has participated since Federation. These nominal rolls list members of Australia's defence forces who served during a particular conflict.
CWGC
The Commonwealth War Graves Commission's Debt of honour register lists details of men and women of the Commonwealth forces who died during the two world wars and Commonwealth civilians who died as a result of enemy action in the Second World War.
