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Friday 6th September 2024
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By Mrs Julie Martin

 

Thanks, Marcia Watson, for alerting us to the GLAM Workbench. It’s revealed that my paternal great-grandfather was a feminist! In 1894, he signed the South Australian Women’s

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Tuesday 2nd July 2024
Tuesday 18th June 2024
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By Ms Angela Heymans

At its AGM on 18 May 2024, the Military Interest Group committee for 2024/2025 was elected. Angela Heymans will continue as convenor, Susan Salvair as Treasurer and Gwyn Williams as committee member. A big welcome to Kay Reynolds who joins the committee and will help with the important job of looking after the afternoon tea at our meetings!

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Category: Military
Thursday 2nd May 2024
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By Ms Angela Heymans

Do you have a photo of a person in uniform and want to know how to identify key details to help with your research?  Stephen Sinclair, Robert Mitchell and Bob Wise from the Army Museum of WA will be at the meeting of the Military Interest Group on Saturday 18 May 2024 to provide advice about WW1 and WW2 uniforms and other clues from the photos. 

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Category: Military
Friday 12th May 2023
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By Anne Giles

Anzac Day  : the forgotten men

Pictures of the young men flocking to sign up to serve their country in 1915 (Western Mail, December 25, 1915) are poignant as we increasingly come to understand what happened next.

Two

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Category: Military
Thursday 23rd February 2023
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By Mrs Julie Martin

Initially developed by Steve Howell, in his capacity as the State Library's WA History Specialist, Dead Reckoning remains relevant to all family history researchers endeavouring to understand and access West Australian records.

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Monday 8th August 2022
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By Ms Angela Heymans

This year marks the 80th anniversary of the date women of the Australian Women's Army Service (AWAS) first arrived on Rottnest Island.  They were followed by other branches of the services including the Women’s Royal

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Category: Military
Saturday 25th June 2022
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By Ms Angela Heymans

The National Archives of Australia has received funding to undertake large scale digitisation of World War II service records.  As records are digitised, the digital copies will be added to Recordsearch.  You can find updated information

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I have checked about 1200 servicemen and women in my database. You have to look quite closely to spot a photo in the thumbnail images. Navy - pretty much all done but only 2 pages and no photos. Airforce - roughly 60% done and quite a high hit rate on photos (probably around 75%) Army - more than 50% done but the hit rate on photos is only about 30%-40%

Posted by Neil Bradley, 30/06/2022 10:55:56 am

Category: Military
Tuesday 10th May 2016
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By Ms Marcia Watson

Ada Bodart's cousin Denis Joseph Doherty, born in 1861, was the son of Robert Hogg Doherty.

Denis worked in a linen spinning factory before he left Ireland for Victoria in 1882, and came the Kimberley goldfield in Western Australia in 1886. He and his friend Francis Connor entered into business together as storekeepers and packers

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Categories: Military | Western Australia
Tuesday 10th May 2016
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By Ms Marcia Watson

During 2015 Britain is commemorating the life and death of Nurse Edith Cavell. Nurse Cavell was executed by the Germans in Brussels in October 1915 for her part in helping allied soldiers to escape back to Britain.

One of the other 35 people tried with Cavell was Ada Bodart who is virtually forgotten.

For her heroic part in aiding

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Categories: Military | Western Australia