Want to compete for a chance to go on a study tour to France during the October school holidays? The cost of travel, accommodation and meals are covered during the eleven day escorted tour to Northern France.

ESSENTIAL DOCUMENTS to get you started:

Choose your Person of Interest. Be aware that you can’t choose a subject from a previous winning entry.

Get started on your research:

Plus check out all the research tips on the VWMA site, particularly on how to find photographs, how to read the service records, and how to search NAA and Trove records: https://vwma.org.au/research/how-to-guides-to-research

A planner that might help you with your research (thanks Mr Kenny!)

ESSENTIAL WEBSITES

Virtual War Memorial (South Australian Soldiers): https://vwma.org.au/

National Archives Record Search: https://recordsearch.naa.gov.au/

Mount Compass Archives (very useful if you’re researching a local): http://mtcompassarchives.org/
The town’s archivist is always happy to help if you email him: mtcompassarchives@gmail.com

Search through all of Australia’s digitised newspapers and documents: https://trove.nla.gov.au/

Make sure you save the addresses and information for every source you use. For this assignment, you will have to do correct referencing and be very careful of plagiarism.

USEFUL INFORMATION

All of the monuments (plaques, statues etc.) in Australia are indexed here: http://monumentaustralia.org.au/ You can find out more information about a local monument, or wherever your soldier’s name is listed.

War Medal identification: https://arts.unimelb.edu.au/__data/assets/pdf_file/0007/2344237/WHR_MedalID_ResearchInfo.pdf or https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Australian_campaign_medals
Be aware that most medals are for participation in particular wars.

What do all of those ranks mean?

Having trouble reading that cursive?