Resources

Finding soldiers & nurses

There are a number of excellent databases and guides online.

Australians

• Search for a person – Australian War Memorial
• Discovering Anzacs – National Archives of Australia
• The AIF Project database – The AIF Project
• Red Cross Wounded and Missing – Approximately 32,000 individual case files of Australian personnel reported as wounded or missing
• Beyond 1914 – The University of Sydney and the Great War – an extensive, searchable database of biographies and archival information of members of the University community involved in the First World War

New Zealanders

• Cenotaph Database – Auckland War Memorial Museum

British

• How to find records of soldiers of the British Army of 1914-1918 – The Long, Long Trail
• Researching a nurse – Scarlet Finders
• UK World War One Collections

Airmen

• Australian Society of WW1 Aero Historians – the Society offers an extensive database of airmen, an oral history collection, photo galleries and aviation research expertise
• RAF, RFC and RNAS personnel after 1913 – The National Archives (UK)
• Flight magazine archives – useful reference for airmen in the RFC, RNAS and RAF, including the date of commissions, promotions, awards, resignations
• RFC/RAF personnel database – officers and other ranks who flew can be traced by casualty reports, promotions, etc
• Billy Stutt and the Richmond fly boys : a history of the New South Wales State Aviation School : 1915-1918 and beyond / by Neville F Hayes ; [compiled by Barry Hayes] – several Mosman men were graduates of the NSW State Aviation School at Richmond
• No empty chairs : the short and heroic lives of the young aviators who fought and died in the First World War / Ian Mackersey – a recent publication that gives a good account of aviation in the Great War
• Fire in the sky : the Australian Flying Corps in the First World War / Michael Molkentin – the story of the AFC
• Aircraft of World War I : 1914-1918 / Jack Herris and Bob Pearson – recent publication, copiously illustrated, that covers the development and use of aircraft very well, with narrative, statistics & photographs

Commonwealth War Graves

• Commonwealth War Graves Commission – the definitive database

War Memorials

• Register of War Memorials in NSW

Search newspapers

• Australian Newspapers Online – Trove – National Library of Australia
• Papers Past – National Library of New Zealand
• London Gazette

Maps

• Finding your Anzacs on a map
• Great War British Trench Map Coordinates Converter
• British First World War Trench Maps, 1915-1918 – overlays on Google Maps

Forums, groups & societies

• Great War Forum – a wealth of information & expertise

Research tools

• Tim’s Buildathon links
  Introduction
  Linked open data
  Narratives and interfaces
  Tools

• Zotero – collect, organize, cite, and share your research sources – Mosman1418 Zotero group

Abbreviations & acronyms

• Glossary – Australian War Memorial
• Abbreviations used in World War I and World War II service records – National Archives of Australia
• Common British military abbreviations – The Long, Long Trail

Dates, timelines & chronologies

• History of the great war, based on official documents : principal events, 1914-1918 – Committee of Imperial Defence, Historical Section, 1922

• Abbreviations – Unit – The National Archives, U.K.
• Abbreviations – Rank – The National Archives, U.K.