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Digitised images of selected original war diaries recording the daily activities of Australian Army units are available for the following conflicts: * First World War * Second World War * Korean War * South East Asian Conflicts

The Diary of Sergeant D Moriarty, No 8308, 1st Royal Munster Fusiliers, 86th Brigade, 29th Division, Exped This Diary originally belonged to my friend Mrs Carol Cox and she has kindly passed it on to me. It is with her permission that it has been reproduced and made available to researchers.

Diary of Signaller Ellis Silas - diary extract : April 1915 23 April Flag practice. 24 April Studies - Flag practice. Bitterly cold at night - continual booming of guns. 25 April In the distance one can just discern the Dardenelles opening up - the thunder of the guns is much clearer - the weather this morning is beautiful; what will it be to-night?

29 June 2009 by Sue Ducker. Aircraft 1914 - 1918,Collection,News The digitisation of the whole series of Australian Imperial Force (AIF) war diaries from the First World War, (Official Records series AWM4), recently passed the 400,000 image mark. Included in the 400,000 images are all the available diaries for the Australian Flying Corps, (AFC) .

This is a great website with diary entrys about the landing at Gallipoli - a good primary source about Gallipoli landing.

"The collection's 976 scientific drawings consist of 518 watercolor and/or pencil drawings of fishes and miscellaneous vertebrates and invertebrates, together with the original color drawings ultimately adapted on stone by lithographer A. Sonrel "

Saw the link  to these come through on an email and so added it to the group. Does anyone teach the Afghan War or contemporary events to their classes?