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The Australian War Records Section was an Australian military unit of World War I responsible for collecting and preserving records and artifacts relating to Australia's experiences in the war. The section was formed on 16 May 1917 under the command of Captain John Treloar and eventually grew to a strength of over 600 military and civilian ...
Commanded the Australian War Records Section from 1917, and a key figure in establishing the Australian War Memorial following the war. [259] His diary was published in 1993. [260] Trevan, Robert B. C. [261] Lance Sergeant: Western Front: 17th Garrison Battalion 2nd Machine Gunth Battalion 23rd Battalion: Trousselot, Henry E. [262] Major ...
Pages in category "Australian recipients of the Military Cross" The following 144 pages are in this category, out of 144 total.
Served in the 1st Division Headquarters and worked with Charles Bean, official war historian. He later worked at the Australian War Memorial and was part of their project to collect diaries [87]: 144 Beach, John Edward Charles [88] Sapper: France: 4 Division Signals: Served in the 4 Division Signals and was awarded a Military Medal
Soldiers from the 4th Division near Chateau Wood, Ypres, in 1917. In Australia, the outbreak of World War I was greeted with considerable enthusiasm. Even before Britain declared war on Germany on 4 August 1914, the nation pledged its support alongside other states of the British Empire and almost immediately began preparations to send forces overseas to engage in the conflict.
So far from home : the remarkable diaries of Eric Evans, an Australian soldier during World War I. Kangaroo Press. ISBN 9780731810680. Fussell, Paul (2000). The Great War and Modern Memory. Oxford University Press. ISBN 9780195021714. Gammage, Bill (1974). The Broken Years: Australian Soldiers in the Great War. Australian National University Press.
The Virtual War Memorial Australia is an online war memorial designed to commemorate all Australian service personnel. The conflicts covered by the Virtual War Memorial include the Boer War , World War One , World War Two , Vietnam War as well as all modern conflicts and peacekeeping operations.
The three volumes of the Official History of the Australian Army Medical Services, 1914–1918, mostly written by Arthur Butler, are also considered by the Australian War Memorial to be Volumes XIII, XIV & XV of the Official History. Volume I – Gallipoli, Palestine and New Guinea (2nd edition, 1938) first published 1930