Interesting way to search Australian records

[Chris_Baker]

http://www.h-net.org/announce/show.cgi?ID=165162

Novel.

[Stephen Nulty]

Slick, I like it!

[Chris_Baker]

44000 British born Anzacs.

[eltoro1960]

Nice idea, but I don't think it's complete , there are 3 men on local memorials (Newtongrange / Newbattle / Dalkeith ) who served and died with AIF and none of them made the list. That said it is a nice piece of software. One shed load of Scotsmen in Australia going by these numbers.

Edit - they are listed under Midlothian or Edinburgh(shire)

John

[gillchadwick]

Really good, the records are much clearer and easier to read than the actual 'Archivesof Australia'

Thank you

Gill

[barkalotloudly]

excellent site!

[Kookaburra]

Thank you for bringing this site to our attention Chris.

Cheers, Kooky

[Procat]

Thanks Chris,

a great idea,

Doug

[Terry Carter]

Thanks Chris

Spent hours, so far, reading info on Birmingham born ANZACS

Terry

[David B]

I reckon I could drive to the NAA and back more quickly than look up this web site. Too much messing around

to get to where you want.

David/Canberra

[Kevin O'Marah]

One Welshman, Linda's Great Uncle from Natmor, Sir Gaernarfon. Pte 2993 John Williams, 6th Reinforcement, 31 Battalion, 8th Infantry Brigade AIF.

KIA 25/05/1918 Bouzencourt.

Mewn cof

Kevin

[Charles Fair]

Great site - 50+ men born locally to where I live, 2 men from my parents village in Hertfordshire. I wonder if I can track down any pre-war TF men who emigrated.... Will have to have a dig around.

Here is the direct link to the site: Mapping Our Anzacs.

Chris - I don't suppose you could please update the title of this thread with 'Mapping Our Anzacs' in the subtitle? I nearly missed this thread and set up a new one.

[Fedelmar]

With the NAA ... particularly if the images are hard to read click 'enlarge' at the top left hand corner.

Bright Blessings

Sandra

[Myrtle]

Maybe this site came out of the research that went into the Australian War Memorial at Hyde Park Corner. I was talking to someone who was involved with the initial design of the memorial. It involved a huge amount of research into the attestation papers that provided the thousands of places of enlistment and birth engraved onto the stones.

Myrtle

P.S. So far two Welsh soldiers missing from those men who fought and died with the Australian Infantry.

[barkalotloudly]

Out of the 4 listed for Briston in Norfolk closer examination has shown 2 should be listed as Bristol and 1 as Bilston!

regards John

[green_acorn]

Hey Chris,

As Charles Fair has mentioned, how about updating the link and description? The Dept of Veterans Affairs (which includes the AWM) here in Australia really do some good work in getting veterans stories and records onto the Internet and it would be nice to see them get appropriate attributution.

I'm sure there are at least a couple of hundred Australian born members of the British Army in WW1, I wouldn't think 44,000 members born in the UK was significant, in fact I would argue the opposite given the high immigration intake of Australia with the preference for British Citizens of the time. If anything I would suggest Victoria's very low number of British born in the 1st AIF is worthy of investigation, I would have expected significantly more, on par with WA and Qld. WA being where many first got of the ships and stayed and Melbourne, Victoria being the next major port. The figures for WA and Qld at first glance may indicate the younger more recent arrivals from the UK. Nevertheless the figures for Victoria are interesting and may indicate a more nationalistic, anti-British view of the world and the states background with the gold miners of the 1850's and Irish immigration. Nevertheless someone could make another study trip to Australia on this one!

You will also find Belgian's, Russian's, Frenchmen, Canadians, Egyptians and so forth, in one very small section I am researching only 1 member was born in Australia, the other ten were Russian, Belgian ...............

Cheers,

Chris Henderson

[agedpink]

Thanks Chris it opens up a whole new area of research

Regards Richard

[tharkin56]

Great link and i was wondering how i was going to add in to a database the men from coventry who emigrated to australia. As this includes place of birth, and enlisted it may miss out soldiers you are trying to research like the following

BARTLETT, Private, Albert. 377, 18th Bn., Australian Infantry, A.I.F., Killed in action, Mereaucourt Wood, 28th August, 1918. Age 23. Son of Francis S. L. and Alice Bartlett, of 43, Aldbourne Rd., Coventry. Born at West Bromwich, England. Born 22nd November, 1894. Resided at Coventry until 1914 when he emigrated to Australia. Boundary Rider. Enlisted May 1915. Grave Ref. II. E. 3. Assevillers New British Cemetery, Somme, France.

A few i didn't know about Arthur Shoebridge atkins killed 6/10/1917 being one.

Nice if the CWGC website did this

[Adam Llewellyn]

Thanks Chris, I have found one of my missing links to Anstey.

Regards. Llew.

[pat geary]

Great stuff, thanks very much Chris.

[Mark Hone]

A novel idea as you say, Chris. Inevitably it will contain lots of mistakes and omissions, but it's a good starting point and an imaginative way of doing it. As always the free access Australian (and Canadian) records make a sharp contrast with the British ones hived off to a commercial subscription site.

[roel22]

As always the free access Australian (and Canadian) records make a sharp contrast with the British ones hived off to a commercial subscription site.

...or with the German archives, which for the most part simply do not exist anymore...

Roel

[Wesley Wright]

Researching Irish men in Australian records--many ,many mistakes--espically where name of town is given -States the name of county as birth place +Dundee in Ireland???.

Never the less all their records have free acess and are to be commended.

Wesley Wright