These links have been checked as at beginning of January 2018.
I have completed the five week course from Future Learn called World War 1: 100 stories put together by Bruce, Rebecca and Laura from Monash University. It has been a brilliant course with so much information about WWI.
- The silent, black and white videos showing the stories of men and women engaged in something related to WWI
- The discussions with leading historians about certain aspects of WWI
- The visits to the Melbourne Museum and the Love and Sorrow Exhibition
- The visits to the different monuments and battlefields
The knowledge of online records that we can now use to flesh out our relatives time during WWI
Australian War Memorial records including:
- Red Cross Missing persons files– these are in over 200 boxes
- Rolls of honour
- Commemorative roll
- Nominal Rolls
- Honours and awards – mainly from Vietnam
- War diaries
- AIF war diaries
- Official history volumes
- First World War history with links to other sites
- Diaries of CEW Bean
- Glossary of terms used
- Indigenous service
- Researching a person
- Researching a unit
- Researching an event
- Understanding military structure
- Australians at war – overview
- Encyclopedia of articles on AWM site
National Archives of Australia records including:
- World War 1 AIF records includes links to other records
- Other service records including soldier settlement, court martials
- Repatriation files – just type your soldiers name in the search collection box
- Service Dossiers for Australian and New Zealand – discovering ANZACs website
- Fact sheet for army service records in each state
Commonwealth War Graves including:
- search for a person
- search for a cemetery or memorial
- an app for cemeteries if you are travelling
- war graves photographic project
Red Cross
Prisoners of war WWI includes actual digitized documents
British Red Cross Volunteers and hospitals
British Military Forces
British Army WWI service records
UK military records – lots of links
National Army Museum with lots of links
Old Royal Naval College at Greenwich
Great websites about WWI in general
1914-1918 online gives links to many other websites
Cora Num’s links to military websites
Lancashire celebrates WWI
Holocaust searching
Steve Morse – Dachau Concentration Camp Records
Steve Morse Auschwitz Prisoner Photos
Holocaust Survivors and Victims Database
Readers: If you have any great sources I haven’t mentioned, please leave a comment. Which of my sources did you find most useful?