Australia at War

Special Collections holds a number of digitised publications and photographs related to wartime Australia:

Maps and posters

M2151 Kitchener's Solemn Warning Poster, World War 1, [1914]

M2150 World War 1 Enlistment Poster [1915]

M2153 War map of the Western Front. Supplement to "The Great War", No. 1, 27th October, 1939

Publications

Australian War Photography: a pictoral record from November, 1917 to the end of the War, 1919

Collections

Ronald Prior Baines Wartime Log - WWII diary

Bourne Family Collection - WWI photos

Dalton Family Archives - WWI photos

Fortress Newcastle Project - WWII photos

Friends of the 2nd Infantry Battalions Inc - Formed in Newcastle in 1983, the Friends have aimed to maintain the military history and traditions of the Newcastle area.

Percy Haslam WWII Collection - photos

Margaret Henry Project - oral histories. 

• Keith Sullivan discusses the RAAF Airbase at Williamtown, he joined the airforce in 1947 and later became a warrant officer at Williamtown.
• Melissa Cameron speaks about years in the Australian Women’s Army Service (AWAS). 
• Jim Husband returned serviceman in the Australian Army and member of the Newcastle Vietnam Legion.

William D Lawton Collection - WWI

Roy Osland Collection - a small collection of photos featuring WWII airmen and planes

Robinson Family Collection - WWI

Rodd Archive - WWI

Toc H (Talbot House) Archives - includes portraits of a number of servicemen from WWI and WWII

For a full listing of World War 1 related archives, including undigitised material, see this Finding Aid.