Select Bibliography
Publications
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Austin, Ron (1992) As Rough As Bags: The History of the 6th Battalion, 1st AIF, 1914-1919 (McCrae Victoria)
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Austin, Ron (2004) Our Dear Old Battalion: The Story of the 7th Battalion AIF, 1914-1919 (McRae, Victoria)
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Australian Academy of Technology, Sciences and Engineering (2001) Technology in Australia 1788-1988: A Condensed History of Australian Technological Innovation and Adaptation during the first two hundred years (AATSE, Melbourne) [Online version: http://www.austehc.unimelb.edu.au/tia/titlepage.html
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Back to Cardinia Committee (1984) Looking to the Rising Sun: A History of Cardinia and District, including Rythdale and Pakenham South (Pakenham Gazette, Pakenham).
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Back to Pakenham Committee (1951) Back to Pakenham March 3-10 1951 Souvenir Booklet (Gazette Print, Pakenham).
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Bank of New South Wales (1921) Bank of New South Wales Roll of Honour (Sydney NSW)
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Bean, CEW (1941) The Official History of Australia in the War of 1914-1918 Volume III The Australian Imperial Force in France, 1916-1918 (Angus & Robertson, Sydney)
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Bean, CEW (1941a) The Official History of Australia in the War of 1914-1918 Volume IV: The AIF In France: 1917 (Halstead Press Sydney)
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Bean CEW (2014) Anzac to Amiens (Penguin, Melbourne)
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Berwick - Pakenham Historical Society (1962) From Bullock Tracks to Bitumen: A Brief History of the Shire of Berwick (Pakenham East Victoria)
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Berwick - Pakenham Historical Society (2005) In the Wake of the Pack Tracks: A History of the Shire of Berwick (BPHS, Pakenham Victoria)
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Blair, Ron (2000): Shoulder to Shoulder: A Military History of the Baw Baw Shire and a Record of the Men and Women who served (Brandy Creek Victoria)
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Burness, Peter (2004) “The Big Guns” in Wartime vol 26 2004 (AWM, Canberra). Accessed online: https://www.awm.gov.au/about/our-work/publications/wartime/26/big-guns
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Carberry, Joy (ed) (1992) The Pakenham Upper Community Church Hall 1879 - 1992 (Pakenham Upper)
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Churchill, Winston S (1927) The World Crisis 1916-1918 Part 1 (Thornton Butterworth, London)
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Committee of the Melbourne University Engineering Society (1919) The Varsity Engineer War Memorial Number 1914-1919 (Melbourne Victoria)
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Commonwealth Statistician (1914), Census of the Commonwealth of Australia taken for the night between 2nd and 3rd April 1911 - Volume III (Commonwealth Bureau of Census and Statistics, Melbourne)
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Crow, Ruth (1988) A Tribute to Doris McRae, 1893 to 1988: a life dedicated to peace and social justice (Unpublished manuscript - Crow Papers, Victoria University) -
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De Vries, Susanna Australian heroines of World War One: Gallipoli, Lemnos and the Western Front (Pirgos Press, Chapel Hill Queensland)
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Dennis, Peter, Jeffrey Grey et.al. (1995) The Oxford Companion to Australian Military History (Oxford University Press, Melbourne).
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Department of Education (1921) The Education Department’s Record of War Service, 1914-1919 (Victoria Education Department, Melbourne).
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Diggerson, Margaret (2014) The Fallen from Chelsea and Carrum: those who served and died in World War 1 (Daylesford, Victoria)
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Dwyer, Phil & Helen Duffy (2015) The Western Front, An Australian Perspective (Affirm Press, Melbourne).
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Education Department of Victoria (1973) Vision and Realisation: A Centenary History of State Education in Victoria - Volume 3 (Department of Education, Melbourne).
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Ellett, Barry (1997) “The Hall Ground” [unpublished manuscript in possession of Barry Ellett)
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Ferry, Patrick (2016) St Patrick’s Pakenham: From the Wilds of the Australian Bush to Outer Suburban Melbourne, c.1840 - 2016 (St Patrick’s, Pakenham)
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Ferry, Patrick (2016A) Together as One: The St Patrick’s Pakenham WWI Honour Board (St Patrick’s, Pakenham)
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Fitzsimmons, Peter (2015) Fromelles & Pozieres: In the Trenches of Hell (William Heinemann, North Sydney)
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Garner, Beatrice (2014) The Wisewould chronicles : grandchildren of James and Sophia Wisewould : Drewett and Davis ancestors and relations of Sophia Wisewould (Melbourne, Victoria).
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Good, Ian (2011) Pages from the Past: Snapshot Histories of People, Places & Public Life in Casey & Cardinia [Casey Cardinia Branch of the National Trust of Australia (Victoria)]
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Griffin, Cheryl (2005), A Biography of Doris McRae, 1893-1988 (PhD thesis, Department of Education Policy and Management, The University of Melbourne)
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Griffin, Cheryl (2012) 'McRae, Doris Mary (1893–1988)', Australian Dictionary of Biography v. 18 National Centre of Biography, Australian National University)
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HMAT Ballarat (1917) The Book of the Ballarat - Left Australia 19 February - Torpedoed Anzac Day, 25 April 1917 - With a Few Laughs in Between (Wightman, London)
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Holgate, A (Ed) (1916) All Abaht It (10th Australian Field Ambulance, London)
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Holgate, A (Ed) (1919) All Abaht It (10th Australian Field Ambulance, London)
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Kiddle J (Ed) War services of Old Melburnians, 1914-1918 (Melbourne, Council of the Old Melburnian Society)
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Morris, Edward (Ed.) (1978) Australia’s First Century, 1788-1888: Facsimiled from the pages devoted to Australia appearing in Cassell’s Picturesque Australia (Fine Arts Press, Gordon NSW)
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Narre Warren Family History Group (2015) Indomitable Women: Celebrating 150 Years of Pakenham Cemetery (NWFHG, Narre Warren Victoria)
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Narre Warren Family History Group (2016) Service and Patriotism: a World War 1 Walk in Pakenham Cemetery (NWFHG, Narre Warren Victoria)
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Rhodes, David & Joanne Bell (2004) Shire of Cardinia Urban Growth Corridor Aboriginal Heritage Study (Heritage Insight, Richmond Victoria)
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Ronald, Heather (1987) Wool before the Wind: A History of the Ronal Family and the Australian Mercantile Land and Finance Company (Landvale Enterprises, South Yarra, Victoria)
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Sutalo, Ilija (2014) Croatians in Australia: Pioneers, Settlers and their Descendants (Kent Town South Australia)
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Swan Hill Shire (1989) A History of the Shire of Swan Hill: Public Land, Private Profit and Settlement (Swan Hill Shire, Swan Hill).
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University of Melbourne (1926) Record of Active Service of teachers, graduates, undergraduates, officers and servants in the European War, 1914-1919 (Government Printer, Melbourne)
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Waterhouse, John (2003) The Orchard School: The History of Toomuc Valley State School No 3034 (Beaconhills College, Pakenham)
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Waterhouse, R.J. (2014) A History of the Toomuc Valley Orchards 1878-1950 (2nd Edition) (Beaconhills College, Pakenham).
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Whiteside, Elizabeth (Ed) (2002) A Valley in France: First War One Letters (Berwick, Victoria)
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Williams, Eileen & Jewel Beard (1984) Looking to the Rising Sun: A History of Cardinia and District including Rythdale and Pakenham South (Pakenham Gazette, Pakenham).
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Williams, Eileen (1986) Officer Primary School No 2742 Centenary (Pakenham Victoria)
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Wilson, Charles W (2013) Upper Beaconsfield: An Early History (Sorrento, Victoria).
Unpublished family histories, letters, diaries etc
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Appleton (nee Doyle), Daisy - Various unpublished notes, letters and stories (in the possession of Rod Appleton);
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Appleton, Edward - Wartime letters and postcards in the possession of Rod Appleton);
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Baldry Family History Society - http://www.art-science.com/Baldry/
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Beitzel, Victor - Wartime letters and Postcards (Provided by Sharon Kelly)
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Black, Donald - Papers (Provided by Trevor Black)
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Blackman, Graeme (2005) “The Blackwoods” [unpublished manuscript provided by Graeme Blackman]
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Blackwood, Andy - Wartime Letters and Postcards (Provided by Graeme Blackwood)
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Blackwood, Archibald - Wartime Letters and Postcards (Provided by Ron Blackwood)
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Bourke, Fr John (1965) “The Coming of the Bourke Family to Pakenham, With an Account of Some of their Descendants and Marriage Connections” [unpublished manuscript provided by Dr Michael Bourke]
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Doyle, Frank - War Diary [Provided by Wally Nye]
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Ellett, Ellen (1980) “Memories of Ellen Sarah Ellett, nee Sayers” (1898 - 1994) [unpublished manuscript in possession of Peter Ellett]
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Ellett, Frank (ND) “The Ellett Story” (unpublished manuscript in the possession of Barry Ellett)
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Ellett, Robert - War Diary (provided by Peter Ellett)
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Kempster, Albert - Wartime letter (Provided by Dawn Willersdorf)
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Learmonth, Alexander - War Diary and Army Pay Book (Provided by Ann Kilby & Andrew Mahoney);
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Nye, Albert - War Diary (Provided by Carol Kelly)
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Smith, George (2012) Smith Connections [unpublished manuscript in possession of NWFHG]
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Smythe, Derek & Elizabeth (ND) Joseph Raleigh’s Family (Unpublished manuscript in the possession of Elizabeth Fraser)
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Warren, Robert - WWI Postcards (Provided by Merle Hayes & Nar Nar Goon RSL).
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Wilson, Shirley (2005) “Margaret Hill” (Unpublished manuscript in the possession of Wally Nye).
Most frequently cited newspapers
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The Age (Melbourne)
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The Argus (Melbourne)
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Australasian (Melbourne)
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Berwick Shire News
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Bunyip Free Press
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Dandenong Advertiser
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Dandenong Journal
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Lang Lang Guardian
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Leader (Melbourne)
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Pakenham Gazette
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South Bourke and Mornington Journal (Richmond)
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Weekly Times (Melbourne)
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Key Archival Sources
Australian War Memorial
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AWM4 - Australian Imperial Force Unit War Diaries, 1914-1918 War;
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AWM28 - Honours and Awards (Recommendations)
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AWM131 - Roll of Honour Circulars
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AWM194 - Trophy files, 1914-18 War
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1DRL/0428 - Australian Red Cross Wounded and Missing Enquiry Bureau Files
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Mitchell Library
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Carter, Lt Col. Henry Gordon (ND) A Condensed History of the 5th Australian Pioneer Battalion, AIF, 3 March 1916 - 15 May 1919 (Roseville NSW) {MLMSS850/Item 2}
Museums Victoria
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Diary of R.C. Werner, 10th Australian Field Ambulance WWI, 1916-1918
Narre Warren Family History Group
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BSRB - Berwick Shire Rate Books
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National Archives of Australia
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B73- Personal case files, World War I (Repatriation Commission / Department of Veterans’ Affairs)
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B2455 - First Australian Imperial Force Personnel Dossiers, 1914-1920
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B884 - Citizen Military Forces Personnel Dossiers, 1939-1947
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MT1486/1 - Applications to enlist in the Australian Imperial Force
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Public Records Office of Victoria
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VPRS 640 - Central Inwards Primary Schools Correspondence
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VPRS 795 - Building Files: Primary Schools
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VPRS 5357 - Land Selection & Correspondence Files
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VPRS 5714 - Land Selection Files
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VPRS 7591 - Wills
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VPRS10192 - Case Files, Farmers’ Debts Adjustment Board
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VPRS 10381 - Advances Files
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State Library of Victoria
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MS 12615 - Raleigh Family Papers
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Key Websites
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AIF Project: www.aif.adfa.edu.au/index.html
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Australian War Memorial: www.awm.gov.au
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Ancestry: www.ancestry.com.au
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Births, Deaths & Marriages Victoria: www.bdm.vic.gov.au
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Casey-Cardinia: Commemorating the Great War 1914-1918: www.caseycardinia1914-1918.blogspot.com
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Commonwealth War Graves Commission - www.cwgc.org
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National Archives of Australia: www.naa.gov.au
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RSL Virtual Memorial: https://vwma.org.au
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Trove: https://trove.nla.gov.au
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Wikipedia: www.wikipedia.org
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World War 1 Pictorial Honour Rolls of Australians: http://ww1.gravesecrets.net
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World War Two Nominal Roll - www.ww2roll.gov.au