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War: 1914-18. The National Archives holds records of Australian servicemen and women from the First World War. Find service records for the following groups: First Australian Imperial Force (1st AIF) Australian Flying Corps (AFC) - predecessor of the Royal Australian Air Force. Australian Naval and Military Expeditionary Force (AN&MEF.

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Raman joined the 2/31 Battalion and was among the first Australian soldiers to re-enter the village of Kokoda when it was taken back from the Japanese. He was killed in action at Papua on December.

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According to the First World War page on the Australian War Memorial website from a population of fewer than five million, 416,809 men enlisted, of which over 60,000 were killed and 156,000 wounded, gassed, or taken prisoner. The latest figure for those killed is given as 62,000.. The original edition of Soldiers Died in the Great War 1914.

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First World War unit embarkation and nominal rolls. State Library catalogue record: AWM 8 AIF Unit embarkation nominal rolls, 1914-18 War. Held in the State Library Newspapers & Family History Reading Rooms on microfiche at GMF 13. [AWM 8 is not part of the title: it is an Australian War Memorial series number].

Australian troops during the First World War in amazing colour photographs Daily Mail Online


Summary. Australia's involvement in the First World War began when Britain and Germany went to war on 4 August 1914, and both Prime Minister Joseph Cook and Opposition Leader Andrew Fisher, who were in the midst of an election campaign, pledged full support for Britain. The outbreak of war was greeted in Australia, as in many other places.

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The Australian Army was the largest service in the Australian military during World War I. The First Australian Imperial Force (AIF) was the Army's main expeditionary force and was formed from 15 August 1914 with an initial strength of 20,000 men, following Britain's declaration of war on Germany.Meanwhile, the separate, hastily raised 2,000-man Australian Naval and Military Expeditionary.

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Australia's involvement in World War I cost it over 60,000 lives, with many others unable to work because of their injuries.. He was appointed the first chief of the Australian general staff in.

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As a British Dominion, Australia was called - along with Canada, New Zealand, South Africa and India - to stand in battle in the name of Empire, putting the country, for the first time since 1901's Federation, on the world stage. The First World War offered Australia an opportunity to demonstrate its strength, ingenuity and integrity and.

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In 1914, Australia's population had hit the four million mark. 416,809 Australians enlisted for service or almost 40 per cent of the male population aged between 18 and 44. 62,000 were killed in.

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Australia's most famous hero of World War I, John Simpson Kirkpatrick, who rescued wounded soldiers with his donkey, lived alongside the Indian mule corps during his three weeks at Gallipoli.

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AWM P02229.001. During World War I, the Australian Imperial Force (AIF) reflected Australia's ethnic make-up. More than 420,000 men volunteered for the AIF during the war. Most of them were of British origin. But just as men of other nationalities could be found across the country, so too could they be found in the AIF.

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Australian losses during the First World War were devastating. From a population of less than five million people, more than 416,000 Australians enlisted, more than 60,000 were killed and 156,000 wounded, gassed or taken prisoner. Just under 40 per cent of Australian men aged 18 to 44 had enlisted, and 330,000 had seen active service overseas.

Australian troops during the First World War in amazing colour photographs Daily Mail Online


During the First World War, Irishman Patrick MacGill (1889-1963) served with the London Irish Rifles (1/18th Battalion, The London Regiment) and was wounded at the Battle of Loos on 28 October 1915. A poet and published author, MacGill wrote a book about the Australians: The Diggers: the Australians in France, published in 1919.

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The AIF's first major engagement on the Western Front was the disastrous Battle of Fromelles on 19 July 1916. Fromelles is considered the bloodiest 24 hours in Australia's military history with more than 5,500 men becoming casualties and 470 becoming prisoners of war. Just a few days later the AIF joined the fighting in the Anglo-French.

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The number of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islanders who served with Australian forces in the first world war is estimated to be in the range of 1,000-1,200.

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Soldiers from the 4th Division near Chateau Wood, Ypres, in 1917. In Australia, the outbreak of World War I was greeted with considerable enthusiasm. Even before Britain declared war on Germany on 4 August 1914, the nation pledged its support alongside other states of the British Empire and almost immediately began preparations to send forces overseas to engage in the conflict.

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