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Military records

Indigenous people have served in every military conflict that Australia has been involved in since the Boer War (1899-1902).

 General Military Information links:

• Records of service in Australian forces (Australian War Memorial)
• Research a person's service history (Dept. of Veterans’ Affairs)
• National Archives of Australia - Defence Records
• Mapping our ANZACs - World War I service records online at the National Archives of Australia
• World War II Nominal Roll
• Nominal Rolls - details of people who serviced in various wars / conflicts
• Military information links - from Cyndi's List
• AIF Database - online database containing the details of 330,000  men and women who served in the first Australian Imperial Force, 1914-1918 
• Northern Territory Library - This Roll of Honour focuses on the people who died on 19 February 1942 and does includes Aboriginal peoples names.
• Gallipoli and the Anzacs - The timeline Australians at Gallipoli and at War enables you to quickly locate information and perspectives on significant dates in the history of Australian warfare,

 Specific Indigenous Military links:

• Indigenous Australians at War   (Garth O’Connell’s site)
• Aboriginal Diggers
• "All in" - Indigenous service (AWM)
• Nominal Roll produced by the Kurbingui Star (PDF - 2.9 MB)
• The Anzac Day Legend and Coloured Digger details of Aboriginal Diggers

 Mura

Search Mura, the AIATSIS catalogue for further reading on the subject of 'Defence - Armed forces -Veterans'

 Published works                                                                

Below is a select list of books that have been published about the involvement of Indigenous people in war. Many of them include stories and accounts of specific Indigenous individuals. These may be able to be obtained at your local library or on inter-library loan from AIATSIS.

   Australia Wide                                                                                               

• Jackomos, Alick, Forgotten heroes: Aborigines at war from the Somme to Vietnam, South Melbourne: Victoria Press, 1993
• Aborigines in the Defence of Australia, edited by Desmond Ball, Sydney: Australian National University Press, 1991
• Biographical Register of Queensland Aborigines who Served in the Great War, 1914-1918, Compiled by Rod Pratt, Wynnum: Rod Pratt, 1993
• Hall, Robert, Fighters from the fringe: Aborigines and Torres Strait Islanders recall the Second World War, Canberra: Aboriginal Studies, 1995
• Hall, Robert, The Black Diggers: Aborigines and Torres Strait Islanders in the Second World War, Sydney: Allen & Unwin, 1989