Records

Each record focuses on a single item from the National Archives' collection. Some records contain extra information to help you interpret them.

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  War pension for mother of nurse

  This is the application of widow Jeanie O'Kane for a war pension, after the death of her daughter, Nurse Rosa O'Kane, from the Spanish flu.

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  War Precautions Act - poster outlining regulations

  This is an extract from a poster outlining regulations from the War Precautions Act during the First World War.

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  Where our boys are – Postcard map of the Middle East

  This is a postcard showing a map of the Middle East region so that family and friends at home could get a sense of where Australian troops were.

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  Wounded Australians on the Menin Road near Ypres, Belgium

  A photo from 20 September 1917 of Australian soldiers near Ypres, Belgium, waiting on stretchers to be transported to the Casualty Clearing Station.

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  Wounded soldiers encourage enlistment - postcard

  This is a postcard showing wounded soldiers appealing to civilians to enlist. On the reverse of the postcard is the poem 'The Shirker's Chorus'.