The AIF project lists Australian Anzacs in the Great War 1914-1918 and is hosted by the University of Canberra. You can search the database by Name, Regimental number and address.
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Major holdings include records for the Australian Army, Navy, Merchant Navy and Air Force, conscription and national service and records relating to the Boer War, WW1, WW2 and the Vietnam War. The ANA also holds Victorian colonial defence force personnel records which were transferred to the Commonwealth following Federation in 1901. The National Archives has a number of fact sheets on its military records which are available on thier website.
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Compiled by Phyllis Wilson of the Returned Service Nurses Club of Victoria, this website lists 102 Australian nurses who died as a result of war service in the Boer War (1), World War 1 (24), World War 2 (76) and the Vietnam War (1).
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Federal Department of Veterans' Affairs website providing access to the following military nominal rolls: (1) First World War Nominal Roll (2) World War Two Nominal Roll (3) Australian Veterans of the Korean War Also listed are some 1,600 Australian civilians awarded or eligible to receive the Vietnam Logistics and Support Medal (VLSM).
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The Australian War Memorial's national collection covers Australia's past involvment in the following armed conflicts : New Zealand (Maori Wars) 1860-1866; Sudan (NSW contigent) 1885; South Africa (Boer War) 1899-1902; China (Boxer Uprising) 1900-1901; the First World War (1914-1918); the Second World War (1939-1945); British Commonwealth Occupation Forces (1946-1952); the Malayan Emergency (1948-1960); the Korean War (1950-1953); Indonesian Confrontation (1963-1966); the Vietnam War (1962-1972); the Gulf War (1990-1991); East Timor (1999 - ); Afghanistan (2000 - ); Iraq (2003 - ) and various peacekeeping operations.
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This site provides personal and service details and places of commemoration for the 1.7 million members of the Commonwealth forces who died in the First or Second World Wars. A record of some 60 000 civilian casualties of the Second World War is provided without details of burial location.
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Explore a diverse selection of government records about Australians and New Zealanders in World War I and the Boer War. Enhance a profile dedicated to the wartime journey of someone who served. Uncover the personal stories of service men and women through original archival records.
A growing number of Australian profiles on Discovering Anzacs have a repatriation record attached which shows what happened to that person after the war.
National Archives of Australia website Mapping our Anzacs is a tool to browse 375,971 records of service in the Australian Army during World War I according to the person's place of birth or enlistment.
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This website contains: South African Graves database which comprises the records of Australians in the Victims of Conflict database of the National Memorials Council (NMC) of South Africa; Australian Memorials database. Also provides brief biographies, photographs, information on memorials in Australia and South African maps for 1900 and 1905. There are also links to Boer War related websites.
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This website aims to cover the history of Australian Imperial Forces (WW1 ) soldier settlement in NSW. A joint project of the Australian Research Council, the Aust. Department of Veterans Affairs, Monash University, State Records NSW and the University of New England, the resources page provides links to State Records NSW online soldier settlement indexes.
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The NSW War Memorials Register is a database of war memorials in New South Wales. It currently holds more than 3000 war memorial records, and more than 200,000 veteran records. The Register enables communities to record accurate information about war memorials, provides best practice information about war memorial conservation, and connects memorials and veterans to sustain NSW military and commemorative history.
Search their database to find images of the graves or memorial listings of war dead and particularly those of the Commonwealth since the outbreak of the First World War. The project has photographed over 1.7 million named graves and memorials and have partnered with Commonwealth War Graves Commission. The ongoing project is run by volunteers.
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