Australian Soldiers, Memorials and Military History

https://recordsearch.naa.gov.au/SearchNRetrieve/Gallery151/dist/JGalleryViewer.aspx?B=4265509&S=4&N=28&R=0#/SearchNRetrieve/NAAMedia/ShowImage.aspx?B=4265509&T=P&S=4

WW2 Nominal Roll extract - Frank Griggs DFC DFM

https://nominal-rolls.dva.gov.au/veteran?id=1049322&c=WW2#R

NAA - Attestation Paper and Service Record

https://recordsearch.naa.gov.au/SearchNRetrieve/Interface/ViewImage.aspx?B=7983673&S=1&R=0

George Henry FINCH’s Commonwealth War Graves Commission record

http://www.cwgc.org/find-war-dead/casualty/462739/FINCH,%20GEORGE%20HENRY

No. 1 WAGS Memorial

https://www.1wags.org.au/people/display/888-william-neil-read_service-number-406700

NAA - Service Record

https://recordsearch.naa.gov.au/SearchNRetrieve/Interface/ViewImage.aspx?B=3400717&S=3&R=0

John Gordon HAMILTON's Recommendation for the Military Medal

https://s3-ap-southeast-2.amazonaws.com/awm-media/collection/RCDIG1068501/document/5506285.PDF

Theo Leslie SEABROOK's NAA Service Record

https://recordsearch.naa.gov.au/SearchNRetrieve/Interface/ViewImage.aspx?B=11587631

Service Record

NAA_ItemNumber3030671.pdf

Moora WA - 4th Battalion Mass Casualty Incident

https://heritagedetection.wordpress.com/2018/07/24/hidden-history-of-a-ww2-oven-at-moora/

Researching_a_person_WW1

Researching_a_person_WWI_2019_v2.pdf

Guide to Reading a WW1 Service Record 2021

Guide_to_Reading_a_Service_Record_2021.pdf

Abbreviations and Glossary

Abbrev___Glossary.pdf

Reading a Unit Diary

Guide_to_Reading_a_Unit_Diary_edited.pdf

Finding Photographs 2019

Finding_photographs_2019.pdf

Researching Trove 2019

Researching_Trove_2019.pdf

Building a profile student guide 2018

Student_Guide_Building_a_Profile_updated.pdf

McEwen_ Interview Transcript_Part 1 & 2

01_Transcript_-_Parts__01___02_Laurence_McEwen.pdf

McEwen_Interview Transcript_ Part 5

04_Transcript_-_Part_05_Laurence_McEwen.pdf

McEwen_Interview Transcript_ Part 6

05_Transcript_-_Part_06_Laurence_McEwen.pdf

Son of Sir David John Gordon and Lady Anna Louisa (nee PEEL) GORDON of Victoria Avenue, Unley Park, Adelaide South Australia. Sir David John Gordon (4 May 1865 – 12 February 1946) was an Australian politician. He was a member of the Australian House of Representatives from 1911 to 1913 and a member of the South Australian Legislative Council from 1913 to 1944. He was briefly Minister of Education and Minister of Repatriation under Archibald Peake in 1917. Husband of Annie Marjorie GORDON. Father of Heather Rutherford GORDON (born 2nd October 1925) John Llewellyn GORDON (born 27th July 1927) Richard Martin Peel GORDON (born 12th April 1932) Bruce Rutherford GORDON (born 16th August 1935) Brother of 845 Driver Douglas Peel GORDON - 4th Company Australan Army Service Corps, returned to Australia 25th November 1915 (born 1892) Ex - Wing Commander J.R. Gordon was presented with an Air Efficiency Award on 21st March 1968. The Air Efficiency Award, post-nominal letters AE for officers, was instituted in 1942. It could be awarded after ten years of meritorious service to part-time officers, airmen and airwomen in the Auxiliary and Volunteer Air Forces of the United Kingdom and the Territorial Air Forces and Air Force Reserves of the Dominions, the Indian Empire, Burma, the Colonies and Protectorates. The award of the decoration was discontinued in the United Kingdom on 1 April 1999, when it was superseded by the Volunteer Reserves Service Medal. The decoration is still being awarded in New Zealand, but between 1951 and 1975 it was superseded by local awards in other Dominions. In Canada, the Air Efficiency Award was superseded by the Canadian Forces Decoration in 1951. In South Africa, it was superseded by the John Chard Medal in 1952. In Australia, it was superseded by the National Medal in 1975. Daryl Jones

South Australian Aviation Museum reference

https://www.saam.org.au/wp-content/uploads/2017/04/SAAM-Profiles-RAAF-Port-Pirie-History-v.-MM-15Apr2017.pdf

Australian Dictionary of Biography

http://adb.anu.edu.au/biography/curr-francis-lawrence-9882

John Talbot Wright, aged 32, a motor mechanic and former chauffeur, was arrested on 11 September 1920 by Constable Cecil Elliott after a sensational car chase through city streets. Wright had stolen a brand-new luxury car, a Studebaker limousine belonging to Albert Cosman Jones, managing director of a company called Australian Motor Services Limited. Jones told the press that he had parked the car in the street outside his flat in Bayswater Road, Rushcutters Bay. He was in conversation with a friend inside the flat when he heard the car being started. Rushing from the apartment, he found Constable Elliott on point duty nearby. Together they commandeered a passing car and gave chase to the limousine, Constable Elliott on the footboard firing his revolver at intervals. Eventually, just outside the Captain Cook Hotel in Paddington, the pursuing car drew abreast of the stolen car and Elliott jumped across to the footboard of the limousine, threatening to shoot the driver if he did not stop.1 Wright’s photograph shows him wearing a Returned from Active Service badge. When he came before the court on Monday 13 September, his solicitor pleaded in his client’s defence that Wright was a returned soldier who had enlisted in 1915 and been wounded in action and ‘badly buried as a result of a shell burst’, and that he was ‘a complete nervous wreck when he arrived home’. The solicitor had a letter from a medical specialist stating that Wright had a ‘morbid mental bearing’.2 The solicitor did not mention that Wright had enlisted under the assumed name Jack Russell, Russell being his mother’s maiden name. As Jack Russell he had embarked for the front on 30 September 1915 with the 4th Reinforcements of the 17th Battalion on HMAT Argyllshire. His service dossier shows that he saw active service in Egypt and on the Western Front, that he spent quite a bit of time in military detention for various offences, and that he was hospitalised on a number of occasions for mostly unspecified ailments, but it has nothing specific to say about his being wounded in action. In any event, when Wright appeared before the committal court in August neither the magistrate nor the police prosecutor was sympathetic to the solicitor’s shell-shock plea, the prosecutor asking: ‘If everyone came before the court with the excuse of shell-shock where would we be?’3 Constable Elliott’s actions, on the other hand, were much acclaimed. He was himself a returned soldier, only 22 years old and a policeman for just seven months. As one journalist put it: ‘Before Elliott joined the force he was engaged in the most exciting of all chases – for Germans in France’.4 1.The National Advocate (Bathurst), 13 September 1920, p1. 2.Evening News, 13 September 1920, p6. 3.Ibid. 4.The National Advocate, op cit.

Guide to Remembrance Day 2020

Guide_to_Remembrance_Day.pdf

DVA Nominal Roll

https://nominal-rolls.dva.gov.au/veteran?id=1060032&c=WW2#R

Albert Russell's NAA Service Record

https://recordsearch.naa.gov.au/SearchNRetrieve/Interface/ViewImage.aspx?B=8071539

Al Bridle's DVA Nominal Roll Extract

https://nominal-rolls.dva.gov.au/veteran?id=1246791&c=VIETNAM

Department of Veterans Affairs - Nominal Roll - Vietnam

https://nominal-rolls.dva.gov.au/veteran?id=1270858&c=VIETNAM

Court Martial Proceedings

https://recordsearch.naa.gov.au/SearchNRetrieve/Interface/ViewImage.aspx?B=8328172