Coming events collated by the Wagga Wagga and District Historical Society

The Australian War Memorial website is a good place to start researching someone who served in the military during a war. Several sources on the Memorial’s website give basic information about a soldier such as service number, rank, date of joining and other details.

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Some of Australia’s greatest stories, as heard on ABC’s Radio National, are now available through Trove, the National Library of Australia’s award-winning free discovery service.

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Wikipedia has a list of Australian diarists of World War I. The list although incomplete contains over one thousand diarists. There are three diarists listed as originating from Wagga Wagga.

1803 Supply ship left England for new penal colony in Port Phillip (24th); 1929 the Cenotaph in Martin Place, Sydney, celebrated its first Anzac Day service (25th); 1800 William Balmain recieved a land grant of 550 acres on the east side of Cockle Bay, an area which was to become the suburbs of Balmain and […]

This very useful database of Australian ANZAC’s in the First World War has been developed over a period of more than twenty years.

Newsreel archive British Pathé has uploaded its entire collection of 85,000 historic films, in high resolution, to its YouTube channel. This unprecedented release of vintage news reports and cine magazines is part of a drive to make the archive more accessible to viewers all over the world.

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