World War 1
On 15 August 1914, the Federal Government called for volunteers from all over Australia to join the Australian Imperial Force (AIF) that could be sent anywhere in the world for the duration of hostilities and four months thereafter. The official enlistment age was 21 years or 18 years with the consent of a parent.
The volunteers were organised into Battalions, Light Horse Regiments and Field Artillery Units. Other supporting services followed and these included Railway Operating Units, Machine Gun Companies and Tunnelling Companies, amongst others. These groups were named and organised in many different ways over the 4 years of the war and it is not unusual to see the records of a soldier mention a battalion, a brigade and a division, and sometimes multiples of each. A summary of the organisation of the AIF can be found on Order of Battle.
Nurses were also encouraged to volunteer with the Australian Army Nursing Service AIF. They worked in Australian and Allied hospitals, clearing stations, hospital ships and rehabilitation hospitals. These nurses were required to be between 25 and 40 years of age, unmarried, educated, and have completed 3 years nursing training.
Each battalion, regiment or unit started its own service numbers from 1 and continued as recruits were enlisted. This means that more than one Australian soldier could have the same service number. Officers did not have service numbers and soldiers commissioned up from the ranks had their numbers abolished. Nurses also did not have service numbers.
After the war, the troops began returning to Australia and the last transport ship left England on 13th April 1920. The AIF was disbanded on 1st April 1921.
The personal documents of anyone serving with an AIF Battalion, Regiment, Company or Unit are indexed on this page.
Group photos and documents that pertain to an entire Battalion, Regiment, Company or Unit will be indexed under the Group Photos and Documents tab on this page.
Return to the Australian Imperial Force page.
AARONS, Daniel Sidney
ABEY, Cyril - 921, WX3399
ADAMS, Francis Kilner - 7202, W68621
ADCOCK, Frank Henry Burton - 394
ADCOCK, Frederick Brenchley - 1044
ALFORD, Ernest Vincent - 1293
ALLEN, Joseph Lowe - 2826
ALLISON, Robert Knox - 3028
ANDERSON, Eric Vernon - 20114, WX5720
APPLETON, Cecil Ernest - 7939
ANDREW, John Douglas - 2828, W68900
ARMSTRONG, Bertram Foster - 1534
ARMSTRONG, Roy Bunbury - 2799
ASHTON, James Stewart - 10832
ASHTON, May
ASHWORTH, Walter - 1689, W82920
ATKINSON, Albert - 8, W243436
AXFORD, Thomas Leslie - 3399, W18283
BAKER, Douglas George - 8441, W243577
BAKER, Norman William - WP677, 347
BAKER, William Leslie - 10857
BAMBROOK, Gordon Lindsay - 2765
BAMFORD, William Victor - 4447, W40176
BAMKIN, Charles George - 2306, W31771
BARBER, George Walter
BARNES, Charles Albert
BARRATT, Albert William - 6295
BARRETT, William - 1519
BARRINGTON, Arthur Victor Royal - 4727
BARRY, James Mackesy - 6482
BATES, Alfred Frank - 6718, W68893
BATES, Wilfred Froud - 51
BATEY, James Earl - 10383, W243327
BATTYE, Charles
BEARD, George Brainsford - 3406
BENNETT, Henry Gordon - N76069, NX70343
BESSELL-BROWNE, Alfred Joseph - W47915
BICKLE, Herbert Thomas - 5987, W69234
BINGHAM, Austin Henry - 5339
BLAKE, Frederick Charles - 2384
BLAKEMORE, Leonard Mason - 407
BLANCHARD, William George - 855
BLYTHE, Albert Ogilvy - 2154
BLYTHE, Percy - 3457
BOTTLE, Ruth Gladys Isabella
BOUN, Joseph Clement - 38
BOWER, Robert - 2106
BOWRA, Herbert Joyce - W22, WX33950
BOX, Alfred Rodway - 279, 13681
BOYD, William Leighton - 7028, W67116
BRADLEY, John Bernard - 3372
BRADSHAW, Francis George - 3980, 6727
BRADSHAW, George Arthur - 515
BRAY, Ernest Gilbert - 3990, W46123
BRAY, Robert Ford - 1107
BREMNER, Alfred Blake - 1116
BRIDGES, Albert Joseph - 25388
BRIGHT, Arthur William - 348, 676
BRITT, William - 270
BRODIE, George Becker - 6481
BROWN, Bruce Harold - 3167, 56770
BROWN, Frederick William - 5676
BROWN, Harcourt Earl Douglas - 3044
BROWN, Harold Clare - 3091,W15944
BROWN, Herbert Oscar - 6482
BROWN, John Anderson - 11, W6194
BRYCE, Gilbert Arthur - 4071
BUCHANAN, Robert Charles - 3354
BUCKLEY, Harold - 3085
BULL, William Stanley - 4020
BURLEY, Frank Armstrong - 774
BURLEY, Robert Allan - 230
BURNHAM, Harry - 7912, 31681
MASON, Percival Aloysius
BYRNE, Jack Alan - 2575
CAMPBELL, Henry Alexander - 94, 367
CANDLER, John - 1790
CANTWELL, Albert Richard - 2761
CAPORN, Frederick John - 6032
CAPPS, Arthur - 144
CAPPS, George - 1725
CAPPS, John William - 3807
CARTER, Thomas Broughton - 2642
CARTER, William Gillen Carlisle - 2358, W30460
CHASE, Richard Henry - 42015, 83, 691
CHERRY, Arthur Frederick - 4732
CHRISTIE, Andrew - 1461
CLAIR, William Alfred - 43, 4314
CLARE, Clarence Malcolm - 136
CLARK, William Alexander - 244
CLARKE, Frank Ernest - 1402, W26442
COLBOURNE, William - 17451
COLLIDGE, George - 7467
COLLINS, Frank
COLLINS, James Moylan - 4999
COLLINS, William Thomas - 22005, W68764
COMBS, George Frederick Sutton - 525
CONCANNON, George Lewis Blake
CONGDON, Bertie - 4703
CONNOLLY, James Patrick - 414, 2395
CONNOR, Daniel Ignatius - 2617
COOK, Halton Middleton - 928, W78068
COOPER, James Wesley Brittain - 3382
COUSINS, George Oriel - 3031
COX, Edmund Maitland - 15, 2853, 6254
CROFTS, Wilfred George - 3292
CROSS, James Jeffery - 3804
CROSS, William Joseph - 3802
CROWTHER, Robert Calder - 38, W47966
CUNNINGHAM, Alexander - 8597
CUNNINGHAM, Edward Joseph - 2461
CUNNINGHAM, Frederick - 4291
CUNNINGHAM, James Matthew
CUNNINGHAM, John Mortimer - 31665
CUNNINGHAM, Thomas Clinton - 5073
CUNNINGHAM, William Thomas - 39838
DAVIDSON, Alexander - 4783
DAVIDSON, George Leslie - 8811
DAVIDSON, Robert Ednie
DAVIES, Elvin William - 5571, W96229
DAVIS, Victor Norman - 5839
DALTON, Frank Gordan - 8239
DARVALL, Frederick Joseph Dundas
DAY, Walter Warner - 2652, W68886
DENTON, James Samuel
DEVON, Robert - 389, 2648
DEWING, Edward John - 1993, W69526
DICKENSON, John Henry - W48254
DONALDSON, John Ralph - WX3430
DONNOLLY, Robert Charles - 1803
DRABBLE, Ross - 4497
DRAKE-BROCKMAN, Edmund Alfred
DUNSTER, George Henry - 422
EASTON, Frederick Spencer - 1705
EASTON, William Robert
EDIS, Margaret Dorothy - W237666, WX33758
EDWARDS, Harry - 651
EDWARDS, Victor Horace - 266
ELVERD, William Augustus - 1995
EVANS, Alfred Lionel - 1878, W17207
EVANS, Howard Lindon - 5967, W47857
FAIRS, Victor Phillip - 2518, 3866, W56052
FALCONBRIDGE, Walter Thomas - 6819
FERGUSON, Donald Henry - 1866, W69479
FERGUSON, Horace Stanley - 397
FERGUSON, Joseph Beresford - 5173055, W26708
FEUTRILL, Harry Edward - 1942, W48108
FEWSTER, William Harry - 172, W40026
FIRTH, John William - 43, 285, 985
FISHER, James Thomas - 328
FITZPATRICK, John James - 846
FLANAGAN, Arthur John - 4735, W29087
FLETCHER, Archibald Duncan - 1808
FLETCHER, Denzel Roy - 3115
FLINN, Bertram Marchant - 5543
FLINN, Herbert Edward Marchant
FLINTOFF, Thomas
FORDHAM, Noel Archibald - 1240, W48085
FORSBERG, Carl Alfred - 71, 416, 893
FORSYTH, Samuel Charles - 6265
FOSS, Cecil Maitland
FOWLES, Herbert James - 1866
FOXWORTHY, John Henry
FRANCIS, Edgar Charles - 779
FREEMAN, Reginald Frederick James - 2440
FRUIN, Thomas Harold - 10855
FURGUSON, Herbert Keith - 1534
FYFE, Alexander Howard Parker
GABY, Alfred Edward - 4053
GAME, William James - 3575
GANDER, Percy Wallace - 486, W65039
GANE, George William - 540
GANNON, Joseph Thomas - 1266
GARDINER, Richard John - 3593
GARDNER, John Donald McKay - 3660
GARLAND, Edgar Hugh - 5012
GEORGE, Stanley Porson - 5842
GERRARD, Walter Anthony - 5701
GIBBINGS, Beatrice May - M12797
GILLIES, Arthur - 4641
GLANFIELD, Lionel William - 7414, W243507
GLEDHILL, Ambrose Guido Clarence - 3797
GODBEHEAR, Harold Stephen - 2146
GOLDING, Sydney - 2911
GORDON, Alfred James - 2057, 2061
GOWING, Alexander Kyle - 38339
GRANT, Claude Ewen - 5399
GRANT, Harold Isadore - 3592
GRANT, Leslie William - 656
GREAVES, Archibald William - 7059, W48119
GROVES, Charles - 383
GULLEY, Phillip Henry - 29523
GUY, Alfred Alexander - W47967
HAINING, Harold Roy - 38162, W17288
HAMERSLEY, Herbert George - 3658, W69458
HAMMOND, Meysey George - 80
HANTKE, Frederick Ronald - 1660
HARMAN, John Joseph - 1139, 4065
HARRISON, George Frederick - 2813, W242712
HARRISON, Sidney - 3346
HARRISON, Thomas - 2171
HARTLEY, John Edward - 2062
HARTLEY, John Millar - 4351
HARVEY, William - 376, W237432
HAY, Frederick William - 67, 5
HAYES, Mary
HEARDER, Dixon
HEARLE, Ernest Alfred - 444
HEASMAN, Albert - 595
HELLMAN, Theodore Edward - 31907, N6576
HEMMING, Stanley Baird - 926
HENNING, Charles Harriot - 3679, WX3389
HEPPINGSTONE, Arthur George - 1835
HEPPINGSTONE, Charles Robert - 508
HEPPINGSTONE, Claude Athol - 3062
HEPPINGSTONE, Hubert Eldred - 1875
HERON, John - 4443
HEWETT, Charles Robert - 3000
HILLS, Robert Bernard - 2148
HOBBS, Joseph John Talbot
HODDY, Lionel Peter - 2067
HODGE, Harry - 1357
HODGSON, Frank Heath - 307, 7345
HOLDING, Leslie Norman William - 20301
HOLLAND, Henry Frederick - 2923
HOLLAND, Thomas Edwin - 211
HOOKS, Robert Alexander - 3158
HORROCKS, Edwin James - 298
HORROCKS, Joseph - 555
HOST, John - 7016
HOUSTON, Hugh Kennedy - 960
HOUSTON, Kenneth Spalding - 1928
HOWARD, George - 1821, 896
HOWARD, Stanley Frank - 200
HOWCROFT, Robert - 107
HOWELLS, Albert Morgan - 19210
HUGGAN, Thomas - 2141
HUNT, Bruce Atlee - 38023, 1182, WX11177
HUNTER, James - 790
HURST, John Herbert
HUTCHINSON, Leslie Charles - 3376
HUXTABLE, Francis Pring - 4819
JACKSON, David Alexander
JACKSON, Ernest Alexander - 3376, W48500
JACKSON, Harold Melmoth - 4634
JACKSON, Roy Melmoth - 3400
JAMES, Trevor - 2490
JAMES, Tristram Bernard Wordsworth
JAMES, Reginald Brand - 1336, W73101
JONES, Alexander Charles - 1853
JOYCE, Arthur Patrick - 905
JOYCE, Tom Baxter - 2115
KAY, James - 5535, 6744
KAY, Reginald Joseph - 4764, W61705
KAY, Wilfred Percival - 4539
KELLY, Alicia Mary
KELLY, Francis Michael - 3164
KENNING, William - 449
KERBY, Edwin Thomas John
KIDD, Joseph Sowden - 3380
KING, James Edward - 5423
KINGMAN, Frederick John - 2351, W30127, WX31827
KINGSTON, William Joseph - 1607
KITSON, Henry - 4227
KNAPMAN, Robert Egbert - 1886, W68887
LAMONT, Neil - 459, 5887
LANDGREN, Robert Clarence - 17535
LARTER, George - 801
LAUFFER, Louis Charles - 2819
LEE, Arthur Joseph - 2061, 7041
LEITCH, Dugald - 83, 823, 3083, A62980
LE MESURIER, Claude Rodney - 32546
LENEGAN, John Weatherup - 1078, 4871, WX4843, WX37440
LINTOTT, Charles Daniel Wimbledon - 448
LITTLE, John Hayston - 6342
LORD, Thomas Walter - 18166
LOUCH, Thomas Steane - 923, WX2, W9345
LOVE, Allan Joseph
LOVEDAY, Arthur Collins - 4777
LOVEL, John Louis - 13773
LOWE, Ralph William Campbell - 29544, W73120
LOWSON, Robert James - 70, W68754
LUKEIS, William - 7037
LYNAS, William James Dalton - 683, W243901, WX11027
LYONS, Charles Oliver - 19995
LYONS, John Christian - 19996
MAGGS, Alfred Douglas - 7258
MAHER, Sydney Francis - 324
MALEY, Septimus Frank - 85
MARR, Alexander - 28654, W67086
MARSHALL, James Henry - 5793
MATHESON, Donald - 1890
MATHESON, Harold Frederick - 3544, W243305
MATTHEWS, Peter Reid David - 3402
MAYOR, Arthur - 7098
McDONALD, George Leslie Valentine - 6149
McHENRY, Bartley Liston - 7564
McINERNEY, James Alexander - 3095
McKILLOP, Dugald - 3896
McLEAN, Donald Shapley - 962
McLENNAN, Angus Douglas - 343, 1005
McLEOD, Malcolm Donald - 3390
McMASTER, Robert Thomas
McNAMARA, John - 994
McNICOL, Archibald
McPHERSON, Colin - 5023
McQUEEN, William Alexander - 136
McWHINNEY, Arthur Charles - 122
MENZ, Henry Berthold
MERRIFIELD, Charles - 20091, W68617
MILES, Albert Charles - 1125
MITCHELL, Henry John - 2213
MITCHELL, Julian Eric - W243902, WX33116
MOLONEY, John Daniel - 219
MONCRIEFF, William Ellis - 2540, 3585
MOODY, Frank - 52086, W90834
MOORE, Alfred - 874
MUNROW, Ivan Edward - 7758
MURRAY, William Brinley - 77
NAPIER, Dudley Clive - 1885, W69430
NEALE, Alfred - 1449
NEEDHAM, Charles George - 187
NICHOLAS, Clive Lanyon
NICHOLAS, Reginald Alfred - 938
O'BRIEN, Albert John - 5765
O'DONNELL, Hugh Brian - 1393
O'LEARY, James Roy - 3421
OLSEN, Ernest Henry - 2423
O'REILLY, Bernard - 1506
PADGETT, John Rush - 546
PALMER, Charles Thomas - 968, W68705
PARFITT, Ernest John - 625
PARKER, James - 2427
PARKS, Lionel John - 910
PARRY, Harold Leslie - 215
PARRY, Walter Edward - 823, W48059
PATERSON, David William - 25373
PATTON, Hilary Samuel - 739, W69432
PEARCE, Charles - 753, 4877
PEARCE, Charles Albert - 783
PENDLEBURY, David - 52096
PESTELL, Allan Murdoch - 5647
PETERSON, Christopher - 5889
PETTIT, Stanley Edward - 6078
PHILLIPS, William Henry Alexander - 3407
PHILP, Alexander James - 241
PIGGOTT, Edward J
PILLING, William Thomas - 1110
PLANE, Alfred Charles
PLANE, Leslie Garfield - 7755
POLAND, William Francis - 547
POLKINHORN, Ernest Evelyn - 19886
PORTEOUS, Laurie Edney - 3087, 13453
PRATER, George Isaac Joseph - 606, W18706
PRESTON, Fred Robert - 3239, W68879
READ, Bertram Oswald
REE, George Amos - 1934
REEVES, Frederick Sydney - 353, W68943
REILLY, Edward John - 3102
REVELL, William Henry - 3383
RICHARDS, Ernest Whitfield - 28490
RICHARDSON, Roy Chesson - 31377
RILEY, Charles Owen Leaver
ROBERTS, James Thomas Hillman - 1431
ROBERTS, Stephen Richard Harricks
ROBINSON, Margaret Muriel - 268
RONEY, Charles George William - 232
ROSENBERG, Julius Myer - 4737, W48385
ROWLAND, George - 2786
RUDD, John Ellwood - 1021, W70108
RUTHERFORD, Richard Henry - 912, W47976
SALVAIRE, Antonio - 258
SANDERSON, Reginald Frederick - 5369
SANDILANDS, Christopher - 7027
SCHMITT, Hubert Ernest - 4219
SCORER, Arthur - 533
SCOTT, Alfred Percy - 1657
SCOTT, Colin - 7674, W75689
SEFTON, Harry Edward - 879
SELBORNE, Harold Conrad - 1659, W80324
SEMMENS, Herbert Stanley - 6149
SHARMAN, Charles Adolphus - W14943, W69503
SHEARING, Frederick John - 3149, W68762
SHELDRAKE, William George - 2001, W237354
SHERARD, Norman Castel - 3080
SIBLEY, Charles Ernest - 3215
SIGGINS, Eric Clarence - 1309, W70897
SIMPSON, Walter Lacey - 22056, W6677, W3018
SMITH, Charles - 978, 7299, Q55043
SMITH, Harold
SMITH, Roy Francis - 921
SOLLY, Benjamin John - 1441
SOLLY, Reginald George - 27015
SOLOMON, Valentine Henry - 5654
SPENCE, John Alexander - 3400
SPENCER, Clarence William - 22988
SPENCER, Thomas Edward - 1158
SQUIBB, Frank Thomas - 2419
STAGG, John Albert - 1158, 661, W243001
STANDRING, Arthur Fairbank Tennant - 3117, W68948
STEWART, John Mitchell Young
STOCK, Cyril John - 4030
STOCKDALE, Henry - 34943
SULLIVAN, Robert Moses - 2986, W18777, FV283
TANNER, Ernest - 7147
TANNER, Percy George - 2869, W237426, WX33035, 274411
TAYLOR, Stanley Ezra Viccars - 3977
TEGGERTH, Alick Gordon - 2867
THOMAS, Harry - 10887, W48249
THOMAS, Hector Frederick George - 7546, W236755, WX26906
THOMAS, Roy Prinsep - 4134
THOMPSON, Samuel - 3479, W69433
THORN, Lindsay - 12323
THROSSELL, Hugo Vivian Hope
TODD, Thomas J
TOMKINSON, Frank - 4719
TOMLINSON, John Hickson - 24442
TOWNSEND, William Graves - 1791, W48331
TRELOAR, George Devine
TRUSLOVE, Mark Woodbine - 1713
TURNER, Benjamin - 365
TURNER, John Wesley Gladstone - 108
WADDELL, John Bryson - 2843
WALKER, William - 3298
WALSH, James - 4960
WATKIN, E.J.
WATKINS, George Thomas - 564
WATSON, Frederick Henry - 17721, W73956
WATT, Alexander Stephen George - 1796
WEBB, Wilfred Peter - 1922
WEBBER, Francis Bertram - 2844
WEIGHT, Harold Stuart - 2716
WELCH, Sidney Charles - 4539
WELLS, Robert George Fernan- 2253, W235118
WEST, Herbert - 3496
WHEELER, William Theodore - 6169
WHITE, Arthur Ernest
WHITE, Arthur Thomas
WILKINSON, Norman - 975
WILLIAMS, Ernest Gilbert - 183
WILLIAMS, Hubert Gladstone - 506
WILLIAMS, Joshua Martin Alexander - 1395
WILLIAMS, Richard Alfred - 4739
WILLIAMS, William Walter - 513
WILSHUSEN, James - 7501, W68950
WILSON, Bertie Barrington Robert - 546
WILSON, Denzil John William Yorke - 15202
WILSON, Harry - 18016, W68747
WILSON, James Edward - 282
WILSON, Sidney William - 3510, W48174
WILSON, Stanley Alexander - 4559
WILSON, Thomas Charles
WISEMAN, James Henry - 647
WOODHEAD, Royce - 2260
WOODLAND, Cyril Arthur - 6111
WOODS, James Park - 3244
WOOLCOTT, Edgar Robert - 10151
WOOLLCOTT, Thomas Joseph - 15915, W69478
WRIGHT, Charles Frederick - 6410
WRIGHT, Frank George - 216
WRIGHT, John Leslie - 8576
WRIGHT, Samuel Wesley - 19217
WRIGHT, William Hammond - 223, W16190
WYER, Thomas - 4403
Order of Battle
Men Discharged From The AIF On Being Commissioned In Other Forces 1915-19
3rd Pioneer Battalion
5th Pioneer Battalion
10th Light Horse Regiment
2nd Infantry Battalion
11th Infantry Battalion
12th Infantry Battalion
16th Infantry Battalion
32nd Infantry Battalion
44th Infantry Battalion
48th Infantry Battalion
51st Infantry Battalion
88th Infantry Battalion
3rd Machine Gun Battalion
4th Machine Gun Battalion
24th Howitzer Brigade
2nd Field Artillery Brigade
8th Field Artillery Brigade
8th Field Artillery Battery
10th Field Artillery Brigade
12th Field Artillery Brigade
36th Heavy Artillery Brigade
3rd Light Trench Mortar Battery
2nd ANZAC Cyclist Battalion
1st Australian General Hospital
Australian Flying Corps