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.

Wagga Wagga and District Historical Society is now on Facebook and Twitter.

Here’s a great blog post from Inside History Magazine….

Each Thursday the Daily Advertiser is publishing a series of old Photos on its website under the theme “Throw Back Thursday”. Recent Galleries have been from 21 years ago.

Author, Derelie Cherry will be visiting Wagga and speaking about Alexander Macleay on Sunday 1st June 2014.

In the Past is compiled from the Daily Advertiser by the Wagga Wagga & District Historical Society

Coming Events collated by the Wagga Wagga and District Historical Society