This bibliography lists the key archival sources on which the stories are based. It is offered as a guide to researchers and, as it is a select bibliography, does not claim to be definitive or comprehensive. Relevant secondary sources are noted under the sources and further reading guidelines accompanying each story.
NEWSPAPERS, MAGAZINES AND JOURNALS
Adelaide Register; Advertiser; Age; Albany Advertiser; Argus; Australasian; Barrier Miner; Bathurst Times; Border Watch; Box Hill Reporter; Brighton Southern Cross; British-Australasian; British Australian and New Zealander; Brisbane Courier; Burnie Advocate; Cairns Post; Cardiff Western Mail; Casino Kyogle Advertiser; Chronicle; City Rhythm; Colac Herald; Cootamundra Herald; Daily Herald; Daily News; Daily Observer; Donald Mail; Evening News; Farmer and Settler; Geelong Advertiser; Globe and Sunday Times War Pictorial; Herald; Kalgoolie Miner; Klick; Koorie Mail; Labor Call; Leader; London Gazette; Mail; Melton Express; Mercury; Mirror; Morning Bulletin; Mullumbimby Star; Murchison Advertiser; Murrurundi Times and Liverpool Plains Gazette; Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners’ Advocate; Northern Star; Nottingham Journal; Observer; Ovens and Murray Advertiser; Port Pirie Recorder; Portland Guardian; Punch; Queenslander; Register; Register-News Pictorial; Richmond River Express; Richmond River Herald and Northern Districts Advertiser; Riverine Grazier; Riverine Herald; Rushworth Chronicle; Salisbury Times and South Wilts Gazette; Singleton Argus; Soldier; Southern Morning Herald; Sydney City Mission Herald; Sunday Times; Sydney Morning Herald; Sydney Mail; Table Talk; Truth; Weekly Times; West Australian; Williamstown Chronicle; Woman Voter.
FIRST AIF SERVICE DOSSIERS
NAA:B2455
James Josiah Agnew; Thomas Richard Archer; James Arden; Royce Baesjou; Walter Bagenal; Reginald Biggs; David Bisset; Noble Black; Joseph Bolton; William Charles Angus Brown; Joseph Bryson; Herbert Bulmer; Charles Byrne; Bertram Byrnes; Harold Candy; David Carman; Clement Carman; Roland Carman; John Carson; William Cordiner; Eric Roland Cotterill; Herbert Crowle; Cornelius Danswan; Evelyn Davies; Walter Dexter; Thomas Henry Dowell; Thomas Patrick Elliott; James Ferguson; Leo Galli; Sidney Galloway; Abas Bhawoodeen Ghansar; Norman Gibbins; Albert Gilbert; Charles Gilbert; Robert Gilbert; Thomas Goodwin; Douglas Grant; Reginald James Hackett; Dennis Dunbar Hauenstein; Mervyn Higgins; John Hutchinson; George Roy Irwin; William Allen Irwin; Allen Charles Waters Kingston; William Johnston Knox; Rowland Edward Lording; Brian Lyall; John McGrath; Alexander McKinnon; Thomas Henley Manns; Frank Maynard; James Maynard; William Maynard; Richard Mayo; Richard Mellor; Berrol Mendelsohn; Tasman Millington; Edith Moorhouse; Alfred Morris; Vernon Isaac Mullin; Thomas Richard Murray; John Naughton; Arthur Leslie Parkes; Robert Pennington; Rachael Pratt; Charles Rae; Donald Rae; William Rae; Peter Rados; Cyril Rigney; Rufus Rigney; William Riley; Frank Roberts; Samuel Rolfe; Edward Sadler; John Sadler; Ellis Silas; Gervase Louis Edgeworth Somers; Noel Travers Edgeworth Somers; Harold Alfred Southern; Robert Stone; Cecil William Tarrant; Frank Thomas; Hugo Throssell; Timothy Tovell; Elsie Tranter; Gordon Wallace; Bernhardt Walther; Adam Wardrop; Frederick Weir; John Whealy; Allan Whittaker; Frank Wilkinson.
FIRST AIF REPATRIATION RECORDS
NAA: B73
Thomas Henry Dowell, M41646
Bernard Haines, R14400
John McGrath, H12398
Vernon Isaac Mullin, M27111
Rachael Pratt, H5789
Elsie Tranter, R45567
Gordon Wallace, M61609
NAA: C137, C138, C138/1, C138/2, C/138/3 & C138/4
Nobel Black, C29645
Charles Byrne, M3444
James Dann, C314427
Cornelius Danswan, R54054
Douglas Grant, C70396
Bernard LeRoy, C59810
Samuel Rolfe, NC043642-01
Cecil Tarrant, R90115
NAA: D363
Walter Beauchamp Bagenal, H029717-01
Harold Joseph Candy, R14615
NAA: PP18/1
Royce Baesjou, R3317
NAA: P107
Reginald Biggs, H12148 PART 1 and 2
NAA: NAA PP6441/1
Hugo Vivian Hope Th rossell, M5273
NAA: PP645/1
Rowland Lording, M34291
NATIONAL ARCHIVES OF AUSTRALIA
A1: 1920/3508, Ettie Rout - Question of admission to Australia
A11489/1: 2350/2, Arrangements in Connection with Graves of the Fallen Australian Soldiers Buried in Europe
A2909/2: A453/1/3, Imperial War Graves Commission, Minutes of proceedings
A1608, F27/1/7 Part 1, War Graves - Visits To Part 1
A/402/3: W2455, QF1254 Margaret Thorp
A432: 1929/3484 PART 25, Various Papers Re Applications for Permission to use the Word ‘Anzac’
A458/1: R337/7, Graves Visit of Mr [Stanley Melbourne] Bruce
A458: F 337/7, Report by C.H. Hughes (Imperial War Graves Commission) for Minister of Defence
A6119: 42, ‘Report of Captain and Mrs Hugo Th rossell’, Australian Security Intelligence Organisation, Central Office
B741: V/3124, Abas Ghansar – Application for repatriation to Bombay, India
MP16/1, Intelligence Report, Melbourne, 25 December 1915, ‘Miss Maud Butler, stowaway’
MP427/1: 3/14/8389, Fund for benefit of relatives and crew of submarine AE1
MP42/1: 1/14/7490, Expression of sympathy in connection with loss of submarine AE1
MP4271/1: 16/14/8314 Loss of submarine AE1
MP376/1: 446/10/1840, Court of Inquiry to Inquire into and Report upon certain matters in connection with the Australian Graves Services
MP367/1: 582/1/218, Galli Leo, Recruiting Serg
MP367/1: 592/4/295, Italian Reservists Mobilization
MP367/1: 592/4/1116, Italians- Enlistment in AIF and Calling up of Italian Reservists
MP367/1: 592/4/973, Deportation of Italian Reservist G Ferrando
MT1139/1: 536/1285, MANNS Thomas Henley - Munitions Worker Number 2152
SP1297/2, ‘The Story of Douglas Grant, the Black Scotsman’ by John Thompson and Brian Hungerford [ABC radio feature script; box c21]
ARCHIVES NEW ZEALAND
R22273524, BAXTER, Archibald McColl Larmond - WW1 47814 – Army
R10927130, McQUAY, George Thomas- WW1 12/2582 – Army
NATIONAL ARCHIVES, UNITED KINGDOM
PRO FO 141/520, Foreign Office Records
AUSTRALIAN RED CROSS SOCIETY WOUNDED AND MISSING ENQUIRY BUREAU FILES AUSTRALIAN WAR MEMORIAL
1DRL/0428:
David Bissett; Joseph Bolton; Charles Bruce Campbell, Claude Clement Carman; Thomas Patrick Elliott; Norman Gibbins; Albert Gilbert; Charles Gilbert; Robert Gilbert; Douglas Grant: Mervyn Higgins; John Hutchinson; George Roy Irwin; Th omasHenley Manns; Berrol Mendelsohn; Vernon Isaac Mullin; William Rae; Rufus Rigney; Gervase Louis Edgeworth Somers; Noel Travers Edgeworth Somers; Bernhardt Hermann Walther.
AUSTRALIAN WAR MEMORIAL
Sister Leila Brown, AWM Nurses Narratives, AWM41: 946
Ethel Campbell Papers, 3DRL/2110
Herbert Walter Crowle Papers 1DRL/0227
Mary Chomley Papers, 1DRL/0615
Evelyn Davies Papers, 3DRL/3398B
Chaplain WE Dexter Papers, AWM 92/0176 and PR00248
Norman Gibbins Papers, PR02053
Alfred Thomas Sharp Papers, PR04809
Hugo Vivian Hope Throssell Papers PR85/361 and 1DRL/0581
Henri Heremene Tovell Papers, PR87/199
Elsie Tranter Papers, 3DRL/4081(A)
Bernhardt Hermann Walther Papers PR00937
Grace Wilson Papers, 3DRL/7819
Rose Venn Brown Papers, 2DRL/0598
CEW Bean, Gallipoli Report, AWM38, item 51
36th Battalion Papers, 3DRL/6037
CEW Bean Papers, AWM, Series 5, 3DRL/8042, item 51
CEW Bean, DRL 6673 series 3, 419.8.1
‘Historical Notes – Gallipoli’ AWM 38, 3DRL/8042, 18
Prisoner of War Statements, 1914-18 War, AWM30
3rd Australian Pioneer Battalion Diary AWM 14/15/18
10th Australian Light Horse Regiment Diary, AWM4/10/15
10th Field Company, Australian Engineers Diary, AWM 14/29/15
New Guinea Campaign Records 1914-1918 War [German New Guinea] Admiral PATEYS report on the participation by the Australian seagoing fleet in the operations in the Pacific, AWM33
Records of Naval Establishment, AWM50 (18/PARTS 1-4)
Roll of Honour Circulars, AWM 131.
STATE RECORDS OF NEW SOUTH WALES
Returned Soldiers Settlement files:
Noble Black, 12/7421
Charles William Angus Brown, 12/7274
Charles Byrne, 12/7305
James Newman Dann, 12/7293
Cornelius Danswan, 12/7052
Frederick Weir, 12/7286
STATE RECORDS OF SOUTH AUSTRALIA
Police Reports to the Coroner 1879-1982, GRG 1/44, 242
PUBLIC RECORDS OFFICE VICTORIA
Inquest Deposition Files
VPRS24:
Frank, Elizabeth and Isabella Wilkinson, 1927/1017
Henri Tovell, 1928/675
Allan Whittaker, 1929/428
Closer [and Soldier] Settlement Files
VPRS 5714:
Frank Wilkinson, unit 1473, 4147/12
Victorian Board for the Protection of Aborigines Correspondence Files
VPRS1694:
P/0000, unit 000002; 000003; 00004
Civil Case Files
VPRS267:
Broadhurst v Archer, unit 1652, 1917/308
VPRS 14009:
Minutes (Victorian Education Department Patriotic League) P0001/1
NATIONAL LIBRARY OF AUSTRALIA
Anzac Fellowship of Women Papers, MS2864
Henry Higgins Papers, MS1057
Higgins Papers, MS2525
Sir John Monash Papers, MS1884
Society of Friends Papers, ML1209
STATE LIBRARY OF NEW SOUTH WALES
Goodwin Papers, ML MSS1598
Alfred Prichard Kington Morris Papers, ML MS2886
Ellis Silas Papers, ML MSS1840
STATE LIBRARY OF SOUTH AUSTRALIA
Dorothy Gilbert Papers, PRG 266/14
Mrs Alexandrina Seager Papers, SRG6/34/1
League of Loyal Women Press Clippings, SRG684/2
Women’s War Memorial Committee of South Australia Papers, SRG89
STATE LIBRARY OF VICTORIA
Chomley Papers, MS11000
Dairy of Sister Alice Kitchen, MS9627
Lyall Papers, MS10132
Joyce McGrath Papers, MS 14583
G.R. Roberts Newspaper Clippings, MS8509
G.R. Roberts Scrapbooks, MS8508
G.R. Roberts Diaries and Correspondence, MS5782-5786; MS8183; MS9105
STATE LIBRARY OF WESTERN AUSTRALIA
Young Australia League Records, 7292A
CHARLES STURT UNIVERSITY REGIONAL ARCHIVES AND UNIVERSITY ART COLLECTION
Walter Campbell Memorial Trust archive
MONASH UNIVERSITY, RARE BOOKS COLLECTION
Young Australia League World Tour 1924 Papers
UNIVERSITY OF QUEENSLAND
Daphne Mayo Papers, UQFL119
UNIVERSITY OF TASMANIA
Olive Pink Collection
ROYAL AUSTRALASIAN COLLEGE OF SURGEONS ARCHIVES
William Kearsey Medical Case Sheet
Gordon Wallace Medical Case Sheet
BRITISH RED CROSS
Minutes of the British Red Cross 1914-1918 and various uncatalogued holdings
PRIVATE FAMILY PAPERS
Baesjou Family Papers
Baillieu Family Papers
McGrath Papers
Walker Family Papers
Wilkinson Family Papers