Military ancestors

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).