The Empire Called and I Answered

  When war broke out in 1914, Vera Deakin, daughter of Alfred Deakin ,  former Prime Minister of Australia, urgently wanted to do something ...

  Wahn, Westphalia, Germany. French prisoners-of-war at work (Karl Rud. Bremer & Co., Cologne, Germany, n°205) On 21 August 1914, the Ce...

I posted about this series of documents, B6525 in the National Archives of Australia back in 2014 .  At the time, only some of the forms ...

Above two images are from the Scotch College commemorative website .  Scotch College moved it's WW1 Roll of Honour while I wasn...

This drab little volume holds a wealth of information about the myriad of patriotic organisations in Victoria - what they did, and who th...

Female Relatives Badge, WW1 Female Relatives Badge, WW2 I have known for a while that the National Archives of Australia held the...

Detail from cover of the nominal roll of the ANMEF to New Guinea, 1914-1918, military component.  AWM AWM190 [4] Yesterday I had cause ...

I completely forgot I was going to do a post on the WW1 projects which were recognised in the Victorian Community History Awards 2016 - so h...

The State Library of Victoria now has a digitised copy of the Scotch College memorial booklet The School at War .  A feature of the book...

 While browsing through the B2455 file of Harry Nightingale Kersey of Moonee Ponds, I noticed a note written at Broadmeadows to t...

Patients playing cards, 16th Australian General Hospital, Mont Park ca 1918 (Alice E. Broadhurst Collection, Yarra Plenty Regional Librar...

Over 90,000 people volunteered for the British Red Cross in Britain and overseas during the war.   Search for your family’s personnel reco...

The original link I gave some while ago to the Victorian Veteran's Virtual Museum which included a link to digitised unit war histori...

I have just noticed an extremely useful article on the Australian War Memorial website by Dianne Rutherford explaining the stripes, chevro...

Sister Elizabeth Gertrude Fleming,  The Penleigh Magazine 1919, p.24. Circa 1896.  Courtesy of Penleigh and Essendon Grammar School Arc...

A recent post on the Exploring Military History blog on "World War 1: selection of non-fiction books" which included a list of ju...

Anyone who has had a good browse through The Empire Called and I Answered website will know that Kim Phillips has been very generous in ...

Public Records Office Victoria has released a new series of document online from the post-war Soldier Settlement Scheme . On this si...

Welcome to the enhanced Online Cenotaph website - our digital social space where enthusiasts, families, and researchers can share th...

If you have family members who volunteered with the British Red Cross in WW1, the British Red Cross have started to load up records fo...