War Memorials in Australia
Links and resources
Links
AUSTRALIA
New South Wales
Register of War Memorials in New South Wales http://www.warmemorialsnsw.asn.au/ As at 19 June 2005
War
Memorials of Maitland District on website of Maitland RSL Sub-Branch
http://www.maitlandrsl.com/war_memorials.htm
As at 19 June 2005
Memorials, Monuments and Plaques in the Hawkesbury district on Hawkesbury
on the Net website
http://www.hawkesbury.net.au/memorial/listall.html As at 30 January 2006
Honour boards and other memorials to New South Wales teachers on Soldier Teacher
website
http://www.det.nsw.edu.au/history/soldier_teacher/welcome.htm As at 19 June
2005
Northern Territory
Northern Territory Top End war memorials around Darwin www.arounddarwin.com.au/darwin_war_memorials.html As at 2 March 2006
Queensland
Queensland War Memorials http://www.qldmemorials.com/ As at 19 June 2005
Mackay District
War Memorials on website of Mackay Historical Society and Museum Inc
http://www.mackayhistory.org/research/war_memorials/war_memorials.html As at
4
January 2006
Tasmania
Friends of Soldiers Walk Inc. website
http://www.soldierswalk.org.au/
has extensive information about Soldiers Walk memorial in
Queens Domain, Hobart,
Tasmania including a searchable database of detailed information about the
soldiers who are commemorated
there. As at 19 June 2005
Plaques and Memorials page on Devonport City Council website
http://www.dcc.tas.gov.au/MerseyMemorials/plaques_mems2.htm
As at 29
July 2005
Victoria
War Memorials in Victoria on RSL Victoria Branch website http://www.rslvic.com.au As at 19 June 2005
RSL Honour Board Project - Victoria http://members.optusnet.com.au/~goudie/ As at 19 June 2005
Gippsland
War Memorials and Honour Rolls
http://homepages.rootsweb.com/~surreal/AVG/Resources/war-mems-general.html#top
As at 19 June 2005
Mid Gippsland Cenotaph Inscriptions
http://home.vicnet.net.au/~mgfhs/cenotaphs.htm As at 19 June 2005
Euroa and District Honour Rolls & Memorials http://mc2.vicnet.net.au/home/retmcp/web/fallensoldiers.html As at 19 June 2005
Western Australia
War Memorials of Western Australia http://www.warmemorials.net As at 19 June 2005
Western Australia War Memorials Register http://www.anzac.dpc.wa.gov.au/index.cfm?fuseaction=memorial.register As at 19 June 2005
War Memorials of South-West Western Australia http://members.westnet.com.au/busgen/memorials.html As at 25 July 2005
Australia General
The Oz-Boer
Database Project lists Boer War memorials throughout Australia
http://www.pcug.org.au/~croe/ozb/oz_boer6.htm
As at 19 June 2005
The Vietnam
Veterans Association of Australia has commenced recording Vietnam War memorials
throughout Australia
http://www.vvaa.org.au/local.htm
As at 14 February 2006
Australian War Memorials on Anzac Day Commemoration Committee (Queensland)
website
http://www.anzacday.org.au/education/tff/warmemorials.html
As at 19 June 2005
The Digger History website has a section on war memorials
http://www.diggerhistory.info/pages-memorials/0-cat-index-memorials.htm
As at 19 June 2005
Dr. Ross Bastiaan has placed a number of bronze plaques on memorials in
Australia and overseas www.plaques.satlink.com.au
As at 19 June 2005
Australian War Graves Photographic Archives
www.australianwargraves.org
has commenced photographing and indexing every
Australian war grave. As at 19 June
2005
OVERSEAS
Canada
National Inventory of Canadian Military Memorials
http://www.forces.gc.ca/hr/dhh/memorial/engraph/home_e.asp?cat=2 As at 19
June
2005
War Monuments in Canada
http://www.stemnet.nf.ca/monuments/ (replaced by National Inventory of
Canadian Military Memorials but still
available online). As at 19 June 2005
Harry Palmer's
Canadian People and Places in Photography has a number of photo pages on
Canadian war memorials in Canada and
Europe
http://www.harrypalmergallery.ab.ca/doc.html As at 7 March 2006
France
Les Chemins de Memoire
website includes details of war memorials for the period 1870 - 1945. In French,
German and English.
http://www.cheminsdememoire.gouv.fr/
As at 7 March 2006
Germany
German War Memorials page
on Geoff Walden's Third Reich in Ruins website
http://www.thirdreichruins.com/memorials.htm
As at 7
March 2006
Deutsche-Ehrenmale.De
has photos of war memorials throughout Germany and Austria. In German only.
http://www.deutsche-ehrenmale.de/ehren/index.html As at 7 March 2006
Ireland
Irish War Memorials
http://www.irishwarmemorials.ie/
As at 20 October 2005
New Zealand
Memorials in New Zealand
http://www.nzafmp.org/memorials.htm on New Zealand Armed Forces Memorial
Project website. As at 19
June 2005
United Kingdom
Britain's National Inventory of War
Memorials
http://collections.iwm.org.uk/server.php?show=nav.00g00c As at 19 June 2005
Roll of Honour http://www.roll-of-honour.com/ As at 16 March 2006
Lost Generation
has a searchable database of memorials and names for World War I memorials
throughout the UK
http://www.channel4.com/history/microsites/L/lostgeneration/index.html As at
16 March 2006
Friends of War Memorials (Britain) http://www.war-memorials.com As at 19 June 2005
World War II, a British Focus http://warlinks.com As at 19 June 2005
Tom Morgan's
Hellfire Corner website has a number of pages on war memorials
http://www.fylde.demon.co.uk/welcome.htm As at 7
March 2006
United States
of America
American Battle Monuments Commission
http://www.abmc.gov/ As at 19 June 2005
Monuments
Memorials and Cemeteries of the American Expeditionary Forces page on Doughboy
Central website
http://www.thirdreichruins.com/memorials.htm As at 7 March 2006
Overseas
General
Sites of Memory records and discusses
Historical Markers, Memorials, Monuments, and Graveyards in a number of European
countries
and the USA
http://hatlie.de/history/sitesofmemory/main.html As at 25 February 2006
The Polynational War Memorial Project http://www.war-memorial.net/ As at 19 June 2005
Vietnam Veterans Memorials Around the World http://www.vietvet.org/vietmems.htm As at 7 March 2006
Wikpedia's
Military Memorials and Cemeteries has categories and sub-categories of memorials
around the world
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:Military_memorials_and_cemeteries As
at 7 March 2006
Books, etc
KS Inglis (1999) (Paperback
2005), Sacred Places - War
Memorials in the Australian Landscape, Carlton South, Melbourne University
Press, Carlton
South, Melbourne University
Press
Shirley and Trevor McIvor (1994), Salute the Brave - A Pictorial Record of Queensland War Memorials, Toowoomba, USQ Press
Shirley and Trevor McIvor , Queensland
War Memorials and Tributes CD-ROM, Toowoomba, S & T McIvor 27 Maker Street
Toowoomba
Qld 4350
Newcastle Family History
Society Inc. (1994), War Memorials of Newcastle and Lake Macquarie
New South Wales, Adamstown,
Newcastle Family History Society Inc.
Newcastle Family History
Society Inc. (1999), War Memorials of the Hunter Valley New South
Wales Volume II, Adamstown, Newcastle
Family History Society Inc.
Michael Rooksberry (1997), Every Mothers Son, Gosford, Gosford City Library. War memorials of the Central Coast of New South Wales
Illawarra Family History Group (c1995), Illawarra remembers: war memorials of the Illawarra, Wollongong, Illawarra Family History Group
Harold Bradley et al
(1994), War Memorials of Victoria: a pictorial record, Melbourne, Returned
& Services League of Australia Victorian
Branch
Fred Thornett (1996), The Tasmanian War Memorials Data Base, Mount Stuart, Fred Thornett 97 Gillon Street Mount Stuart Tas 7000
Oline Richards (1996), War Memorials in Western Australia, Como, O. Richards
Other
The Inglis Collection in The
Australian War Memorial, collection no PR00944, is a rich source of material
collected by Professor Ken Inglis
for the Australian National University Survey of War Memorials.
The W G Fortman Memorials Postcard Collection in the Australian War Memorial, collection no RC00062, is a collection of postcards collected by Mr W G Fortman in Melbourne, Vic between the First World War and the Second World War, of war memorials in Australia and overseas.
The Australian War Memorial has a microfiche collection of
newspaper clippings about war memorials dating from the 1920s to the 1950s.