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| − | [http://nzetc.victoria.ac.nz/tm/scholarly/tei-corpus-WH1.html 'campaign histories and the regimental histories covering New Zealand's involvement in the First World War' from the New Zealand Electronic Text Collection] | + | [http://nzetc.victoria.ac.nz/tm/scholarly/tei-corpus-WH1.html 'campaign histories and the regimental histories covering New Zealand's involvement in the First World War' from the New Zealand Electronic Text Collection]. A useful index for this content is provided on the [https://armouryinfocentre.wordpress.com/home/army-new-zealand-expeditionary-force/ww1-nz-unit-histories/ WW1 NZEF Unit Histories] page. |
[http://www.nzmr.org/war_diaries.html Transcribed Regimental Diaries and links to images of originals in the Australian War Memorial] | [http://www.nzmr.org/war_diaries.html Transcribed Regimental Diaries and links to images of originals in the Australian War Memorial] | ||
Revision as of 06:24, 14 November 2014
The beginnings of a list of sources for official unit diaries (e.g. contemporary accounts of troop movements, casualties, etc) and histories. Please add any you know of, either here or to a page for the specific unit it relates to. If the page doesn't exist yet, you can create it and it can always be tidied into place later if necessary.
Australia
Digitised images of selected original war diaries recording the daily activities of Australian Army units are available for the First World War - AWM4. These Australian Imperial Force unit war diaries, 1914-18 War, are available for free, and you can sign up to transcribe them on their site.
Canada
Great Britain and Ireland
- There's a list of extracts or summaries from War Diaries on the Long, Long Trail site
India
Italy
New Zealand
'campaign histories and the regimental histories covering New Zealand's involvement in the First World War' from the New Zealand Electronic Text Collection. A useful index for this content is provided on the WW1 NZEF Unit Histories page.
Transcribed Regimental Diaries and links to images of originals in the Australian War Memorial
