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The Australian War Memorial list of WWI units has been really useful. The List of Arms & Services on the AIF Project site might also be useful. records, 1914-1918 War in AWM7 is useful for listing transport ships.

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I'm copying this here so it's not just in my inbox and so it's findable in the meantime. If you copy items over to pages, please remove them from this list!

Captain John William Axtens

Diaries and letters cover service in:

Previous service in 18th Infantry Regiment, Australian Militia but not covered by narratives.

Quartermaster Sergeant Ernest William Baker

  • 20th Australian Infantry Battalion
  • Australian Naval and Military Expeditionary Force

Bombardier William Emanuel Baker

  • 2 Field Artillery Brigade
  • 2nd Australian Field Artillery Brigade

Sergeant Cecil Charles Harpur Baldwin

  • 3rd Australian Infantry Battalion
  • 18th Australian Infantry Battalion


Gunner John Stanley Bannon

  • 6th Australian Field Artillery Battery


Driver Nicholas Bannon

  • 6th Australian Field Artillery Battery
  • 55th Australian Field Artillery Battery


Lieutenant Wilfred Griffith Barlow

  • 58th Australian Infantry Battalion


Captain Charles Albert Barnes

  • 11 Battalion
  • Western Australian Military Forces
  • 4 Mounted Infantry Contingent
  • 11th Australian Infantry Battalion

Sergeant Hugh Barr

  • 44th Australian Infantry Battalion


Driver Douglas Barrett-Lennard

  • 3rd Australian Field Artillery Brigade

Lance Corporal John Shakespear Bartley


Colonel Nathaniel Dunbar Barton

  • 2/9 Australian General Hospital
  • 7 Light Horse Regiment

Australian Army Medical Corps

  • 7th Australian Light Horse Regiment


Lieutenant George Courtney Benson

  • Camouflage units
  • 3 Artillery Brigade Headquarters
  • 4th Australian Division
  • 4th Australian Divisional Ammunition Column


Sergeant Wilbert Nugent Berg

  • 18th Australian Infantry Battalion


Major Frederick Leslie Biddle

  • 1st Australian Division
  • 2nd Australian Field Artillery Brigade
  • 4th Australian Field Artillery Battery

Lance Corporal Charles Tednee Blackman


Lance Corporal James Boe

  • 1st Australian Light Trench Mortar Battery
  • 4th Australian Infantry Battalion


Lance Corporal George Booley

  • 5th Australian Infantry Battalion

Lieutenant Stephen Philip Boulton

  • 1st Australian Field Artillery Brigade
  • 2nd Australian Field Artillery Brigade
  • 21st Australian Field Artillery Brigade
  • 1st Australian Divisional Ammunition Column


Lieutenant John Joseph Bourke

  • 5th Australian Infantry Battalion
  • 2nd Australian Machine Gun Company


Sergeant Albert Victor Bracher

  • Royal Navy
  • 25th Australian Infantry Battalion


Major General William Throsby Bridges

1 Division Headquarters Australian Division SPECIAL SERVICE OFFICERS Staff Army Corps Headquarters

Second Lieutenant Henry Francis Briggs

  • 3rd Australian Infantry Battalion
  • 55th Australian Infantry Battalion
  • 14th Australian Machine Gun Company


Flight Sub Lieutenant Dennis Gurney Broad

  • HMS Killingholme
  • Australian Naval and Military Expeditionary Force

Gunner Eric Burgess

  • 5th Australian Field Artillery Brigade
  • 14th Australian Field Artillery Brigade
  • 23rd Australian Infantry Battalion


Second Lieutenant Francis James Burton

  • 4th Australian Light Horse Regiment

Sergeant Alfred Sydney Burvett

  • 24th Australian Infantry Battalion


Lieutenant David Wallace Caldwell

  • 27th Australian Infantry Battalion


Warrant Officer Class 2 Donald Law Patrick Cameron

  • 1 Light Horse Regiment
  • 4 Battalion Imperial Camel Corps
  • 202 Camp Hospital
  • 1st Australian Light Horse Regiment


Second Lieutenant William Cameron

  • 9th Australian Light Horse Regiment


Second Lieutenant Donald Gordon Campbell

  • 11th Australian Infantry Battalion
  • 51st Australian Infantry Battalion


Captain Sydney James Campbell

  • 8th Australian Light Horse Regiment

5th Australian Pioneer Battalion 1st Australian Infantry Battalion 53rd Australian Infantry Battalion

Lieutenant Colonel Herbert Gordon Carter

Royal Army Medical Corps

Captain Robert Burnside Carter

HMAS Sydney

Real Admiral Henry Priaulx Cayley


1st Australian Light Horse Regiment 12th Australian Light Horse Regiment

Major Philip Arthur Chambers

1st Australian Infantry Battalion

Lieutenant Benjamin William Champion

Driver Gordon Cecil Buckingham Champion

9th Australian Infantry Battalion

Lieutenant John Joseph Chapman


36th Australian Heavy Artillery Group 5th Australian Field Artillery Brigade

Gunner James Vincent Clarke


2nd Australian Light Horse Regiment 7th Australian Light Horse Regiment

Trooper Oliver Joseph Bourke Clarke

4th Australian Light Horse Regiment

Trooper Edward Randolph Cleaver

1st Australian Light Horse Regiment

Private Gordon Colin Cooper


16th Australian Infantry Battalion 48th Australian Infantry Battalion

Second Lieutenant John George Cosson

13th Australian Infantry Battalion

Second Lieutenant Eric Roland Cotterill


2nd Australian Infantry Battalion 8th Australian Infantry Battalion

Sergeant Jason Leslie Boyd Coulter

3rd Australian Infantry Battalion

Private John Hector Croft

No. 2 Squadron, Australian Flying Corps

Lieutenant Cyril Ednott Crooke

6th Australian Light Horse Regiment

Trooper Richard Walters Crozier


1st Australian Divisional Engineers 2nd Field Company, Australian Engineers

Captain Alexander Jackson Cunningham

22nd Australian Infantry Battalion

Captain Herbert Franklin Curnow

46th Australian Infantry Battalion

Captain Henry Stanley Davis

2/1 Independent Armoured Regiment Ordnance Workshop

Craftsman Apcar Leslie De Vine


18th Australian Infantry Battalion Australian Naval and Military Expeditionary Force

Private Errol Cappie Nepean Devlin


5th Australian Infantry Battalion 57th Australian Infantry Battalion

Captain Herbert Spencer Dickinson

Gunner Keith Shadforth Sheen Dowling

Chief Stoker Peter Duncan

3rd Australian Light Horse Regiment

Sergeant Albert Sidney Dunk


12th Australian Infantry Battalion 51st Australian Infantry Battalion 52nd Australian Infantry Battalion

Sergeant Mervyn Arthur Dunkin


12th Australian Field Artillery Brigade 46th Australian Field Artillery Battery

Lieutenant Alfred Bailey Eades


1st Australian Pioneer Battalion 5th Australian Infantry Battalion

Lieutenant George Howard Earp

24th Australian Infantry Battalion

Lieutenant Eric Henry Drummond Edgerton

60th Australian Infantry Battalion

Major Thomas Patrick Elliott


2nd Australian Field Artillery Brigade 21st Australian Field Artillery Brigade 4th Australian Field Artillery Battery 102nd Australian (Howitzer) Battery

Battery Sergeant Major Norman Griffiths Ellsworth


Australian Army Medical Corps AMD HQ

Major Wilfred Evans


3rd Field Company, Australian Engineers 5th Field Company, Australian Engineers 8th Field Company, Australian Engineers

Major William Gordon Farquhar

34th Australian Infantry Battalion

Lieutenant Alfred James Fell

17th Australian Infantry Battalion

Captain Cuthbert Clive Finlay

5th Australian Infantry Battalion

Captain George Lush Finlay

23rd Australian Infantry Battalion

Lieutenant Irving Russell Flett

5th Australian Infantry Battalion

Major Robert Pearce Flockart

17th Australian Infantry Battalion

Major Leslie George Fussell

Corporal Wilfred Denver Gallwey


1st Australian Camel Battalion 1st Australian Infantry Battalion

Private John Kingsley Gammage


Headquarters 1st Division / Deployable Joint Force Headquarters 55th Australian Infantry Battalion Australian Army Medical Corps

Lieutenant Reginald Scott Gardiner

7th Australian Infantry Battalion

Sergeant Richard Job Gardiner

24th Australian Field Artillery Brigade

Gunner Frank Garth

HMAS Melbourne

Leading Signalman Stanley Alfred Gedling


Royal Australian Navy HMAS Sydney

Captain John Collings Taswell Glossop

3rd Australian Division

Brigadier General Henry Arthur Goddard

3rd Australian Light Horse Regiment

Sergeant Francis Lister Godlee

Red Cross

Matron Margaret Gray

37th Australian Infantry Battalion

Lieutenant Robert Cuthbert Grieve


28th Australian Infantry Battalion 51st Australian Infantry Battalion

Private David Bernard Harford

SMS Emden (1908)

Petty Officer Hans Heinz Harmes-Emden


Pay 4th Australian Pioneer Battalion 15th Australian Infantry Battalion

Private Samuel Hedley Hemming Hawkins

Private Ernest John Clinton Heathcote

7th Australian Infantry Battalion

Lieutenant Alan Dudley Henderson


3 Light Horse Brigade 12 Company, Australian Army Service Corps Australian depot units of supply 26 Company, Australian Army Service Corps 4 Divisional Train 3rd Australian Light Horse Brigade

Sergeant Albert Henshall


2 Battalion 2nd Australian Infantry Battalion

Staff Sergeant John Wesley Hetherington

Captain Reginald Harriman Heywood

Royal Navy

Lieutenant Commander Cyril John Percy Hill


Private 5th Australian Machine Gun Battalion 14th Australian Machine Gun Company

Private James Hodgen

5th Australian Infantry Battalion

Private Harry Hodgman


2nd Australian Light Horse Brigade 6th Australian Light Horse Regiment 14th Australian Light Horse Regiment

Major Oliver 'Trooper Bluegum' Hogue

5th Australian Light Horse Regiment

Trooper Ion Llewellyn Idriess


10 Casualty Clearing Station 15 Casualty Clearing Station No. 2 Australian General Hospital No. 1 Australian Casualty Clearing Station Australian Army Medical Corps

Private David Watson Izatt

Sergeant John Robert Cowan Kelly

5th Australian Infantry Battalion

Private Albert William Keown


3 Light Horse Brigade 10 Light Horse Regiment Western Australia Mounted Infantry 3rd Australian Light Horse Brigade 10th Australian Light Horse Regiment

Major Thomas Anderson Kidd

3rd Australian Field Ambulance

Private John Simpson Kirkpatrick


No. 2 Squadron, Australian Flying Corps No. 4 Squadron, Australian Flying Corps 8th Australian Light Horse Regiment

Private Verner Gladders Knuckey


4th Australian Light Horse Regiment Imperial Camel Corps

Staff Sergeant Henry Langtip


8 Battalion Dunster Force 1 Works Company 15 Works Company 8th Australian Infantry Battalion

Major Percy Lay


48 Battalion Imperial Camel Corps 10th Australian Infantry Battalion 48th Australian Infantry Battalion

Major Benjamin Bennett Leane

Chaplain Vivian Agincourt Spence Little


Red Cross Queen Alexandra's Imperial Military Nursing Service Reserve 2 Stationary Hospital Annexe

Matron Mary McLean Loughron


14th Australian Light Horse Regiment 1st Australian Camel Battalion

Captain Arthur Arundel Mackenzie

5th Australian Infantry Battalion

Lieutenant George Leslie Makin

21st Australian Infantry Battalion

Private James Charles Martin


4 Light Horse Regiment 8 Light Horse Regiment 4th Australian Light Horse Regiment 8th Australian Light Horse Regiment 5th Victorian Mounted Rifles

Lieutenant Colonel Leslie Cecil Maygar


2nd Australian Infantry Battalion 3rd Australian Infantry Battalion

Private Cecil Anthony McAnulty


1st Australian Division 7th Australian Infantry Battalion 60th Australian Infantry Battalion

Major Geoffrey Gordon McCrae


5th Field Company, Australian Engineers 8th Field Company, Australian Engineers 26th Australian Infantry Battalion 53rd Australian Infantry Battalion

Lieutenant Ronald Alison McInnis

9th Australian Infantry Battalion

Private Edward Michael McNamee


No. 1 Australian General Hospital 1st Australian Field Ambulance Australian Army Medical Corps

Colonel Reginald Jeffery Millard

4th Australian Light Horse Regiment

Corporal Geoffrey Arthur Nevett Mitchell


Corps Headquarters New Zealand and Australian Division Brigade Headquarters AC Australian Corps Staff 3rd Australian Division 4th Australian Infantry Brigade

General John Monash

Sergeant Lawrence Stanley Vivian Moss

1st Australian Infantry Battalion

Private Frederick Warren Muir


14 Battalion 14th Australian Infantry Battalion

Sergeant George Alexander Hugh Murray


HMAS Sydney (1913-1928) HMAS Sydney

Stoker 2nd Class Niels Peter Henry Nielsen

3rd Australian Infantry Battalion

Corporal Vivian Henry William Noble

5th Australian Infantry Battalion

Sergeant Frank Jubilee Olle


Australian Fleet Unit HMAS Australia

George Edwin Patey


5th Australian Machine Gun Company 25th Australian Machine Gun Company

Second Lieutenant Theodor Milton Pflaum

57th Australian Infantry Battalion

Company Quartermaster Sergeant Richard Keith Phillips


Australian Naval and Military Expeditionary Force Australian Army Medical Corps

Captain Brian Colden Antill Pockley

11th Australian Infantry Battalion

Lieutenant Charles Pope

20th Australian Infantry Battalion

Second Lieutenant Cyril Arnold Pryor

23rd Australian Infantry Battalion

Second Lieutenant John Alexander Raws

23rd Australian Infantry Battalion

Lieutenant Robert Goldthorpe Raws


3rd Australian Machine Gun Battalion 6th Australian Machine Gun Company 10th Australian Machine Gun Company

Private Francis Reardon

1st Australian Field Ambulance

Private Herbert Vincent Reynolds

Chief Petty Officer William Smith Rhoades


No. 1 Australian General Hospital No. 2 Australian Casualty Clearing Station Australian Army Nursing Service

Major Alice Ross-King


2 Battalion 15 Lines of Communication Area 34 Lines of Communication Area 2nd Australian Infantry Battalion

Sergeant Keith Rourke

4th Australian Field Artillery Battery

Bombardier Frederick William Rowe


No. 2 Australian Stationary Hospital Australian Army Medical Corps

Warrant Officer Class 1 Roy Rowe

HMAS Australia

Engine Room Artificer Tom Rushworth

HMAS Sydney

Leading Signalman John William Seabrook


28 Battalion 2 Pioneer Battalion 7 Army Troops Company 2nd Australian Pioneer Battalion 28th Australian Infantry Battalion

Major George Duncan Shaw

5th Australian Infantry Brigade

Chaplain 4th Class Keith Stewart Cresswell Single


Divisional Engineers 3rd Field Company, Australian Engineers 5th Field Company, Australian Engineers

Lieutenant Frederick Trouton Small

1st Australian Light Horse Regiment

Trooper Edgar Roy Stanford

1 Divisional Train

Major William Stockdale

HMAS AE 2

Stoker Charles Suckling

1st Australian Light Horse Regiment

Trooper James Joseph Augustus Sweeney


6 Battalion 6th Australian Infantry Battalion

Corporal Arthur G Thomas


No. 4 Squadron, Australian Flying Corps 13th Australian Light Horse Regiment

Lieutenant Vincent Harry Thornton

7th Australian Infantry Battalion

Major Frederick Harold Tubb

Driver John Henry Llewellyn Turnbull

Lieutenant Lindsay Robert Turner


13 Battalion 13th Australian Infantry Battalion

Leading Aircraftman William Albert Tutt


6th Australian Light Horse Regiment 12th Australian Light Horse Regiment

Private Albany Thomas Fredrick Varney

HMAS Sydney

Chief Petty Officer Roy Clarence Vayne


3 Field Ambulance Australian Army Service Corps Australian Army Medical Corps 3rd Australian Field Ambulance 7th Australian Field Ambulance 7 Field Ambulance

Lieutenant Colonel Frederick Lawrence Wall

19th Australian Infantry Battalion

Captain Clarence Wallach

Private Clifford Alfred Walshe


No. 4 Squadron, Australian Flying Corps 2nd Australian Light Horse Brigade

Captain Herbert Gilles Watson

16th Australian Infantry Battalion

Lance Corporal Marshall Western Moore Way

Australian Flying Corps

Captain Thomas Walter White

Private Henry George Whiting

Captain Robert Alexander Thomas Wilson


3 Battalion 3rd Australian Infantry Battalion 8th Australian Infantry Battalion 55th Australian Infantry Battalion 58th Australian Infantry Battalion No. 4 Australian Command Depot

Lieutenant Colonel Percy William Woods

26th Australian Infantry Battalion

Private Thomas Herbert Wragg

2nd Australian Infantry Battalion

Corporal Henry Ernest Wyatt