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05/07/2001 Entry: "WEBSITE: Introduction to Honours and Awards (Gazetted)"
Anthony Staunton recently posted the following in the soc.genealogy.australia+nz newsgroup (and Rootsweb mailing list).
From: "Anthony Staunton" <<anthony.staunton@pcug.org.au>
Subject: Honours and Awards
Date: Wednesday, 4 July 2001 1:30 AM
I am pleased to announce that the Australian War Memorial has published my database on Imperial Honours and Awards. It can be found at www.awm.gov.au under datsbases. My aim was to give an authority for Australian awards. I look forward to feedback.
Anthony Staunton
INTRODUCTION TO HONOURS AND AWARDS (GAZETTED)
This database provides details of approximately 47,000 honours and awards to Australians while on active service with Australian forces in these conflicts:
* Boer War
* World War 1
* World War 2
* Korean War
* Malayan Emergency
* Indonesian Confrontation and
* Vietnam War
It does not cover entitlements to campaign or service medals.
Coverage
The database includes
* awards to members of all three services, Army, Navy and Air Force
* Australian and foreign awards (excluding foreign awards for the Vietnam War)
* some Australian awards to foreign soldiers in Australian units (such as British officers in the Australian Imperial Force)
* foreign awards to Australians in Allied forces (such as Australians in the Royal Air Force)
* peacetime New Year and Queen's Birthday Defence honours
The database does not include
* recommendations for awards which were not subsequently made (however see below under Further Information for details of the project to digitise AWM28))
* campaign and service medals
Sources
The database was created by Anthony Staunton, a military history researcher. Enquires should be directed to the Australian War Memorial Research Centre.
Primary
London Gazette and Commonwealth of Australia Gazette
Secondary
* original honours and awards recommendations files held by the Memorial's Research Centre
* published lists of award winners
* Army orders
* Biographical sources such as the First World War Nominal Roll
Searching
The database can be searched
* in separate fields by surname, first name, unit or award or
* in the keyword field for any of the above plus service number, rank and date of Gazette entry
Further information
Recommendations files for honours and awards for the First World War (AWM28) have been digitised and will be accessible on the Memorial's website shortly.
Other original files are available in the Research Centre.
Original and published sources relating to honours and awards are detailed in Citations and recommendations for honours and awards.
Published works detailing award recipients are listed in Reading list: Honours and Awards
