Thursday, September 16, 2004

National Archives of Australia: "The National Archives promotes good government recordkeeping and encourages community awareness and use of valuable Commonwealth records in its care.
We have galleries, a reading room and offices in Canberra and a reading room and offices in each State capital and Darwin."

""brokan"" wrote in news:soc.genealogy.nordic

> It may be of interest that a significant number of Danes served in the
> Australian Army in World War 1 ~
>
> For their records go to ~
> http://naa12.naa.gov.au/
>
> Click on - Guest - on the bottom left corner ~
>
> next page ~ in 'Keyword' write denmark
> and in 'Dates' write 1914 - 1920 and then Search in bottom left
>
> Next page click on 'Display' and you will get service records of 365 items.
>
> Also note that the names with a 'View digital' will give you photo copies
> of the ORIGINAL service records ~ pay books ~ medical records ~
> courts martials ~ POW records, etc ~ some with as much a 50 documents!
>
> Amazing stuff them Aussies have put together ~~ fascinating!
>
> For Norway
> ~ same procedure ~ just write norway in 'Keyword' instead

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