www.defence.gov.au

The website of the Australian Department of Defence.

www.defence.gov.au/medals

This page located on the Defence website provides information and pictures of medals.

www.dva.gov.au

The website of the Australian Department of Veterans' Affairs.

www.itsanhonour.gov.au

This website contains information about the Australian and Imperial Honours Systems and contains a comprehensive listing of award recipients both Australian and Imperial, civilian and military who have been honoured since Federation right through to the present day.

Did you know, as a recipient of the National Service Medal, you are entitled to have your name included in the database - all you need to do is to authorise Government House to provide your personal honours details to the Department of the Prime Minister and Cabinet to add to the database.  See the website for further details on how to do this.

www.slv.vic.gov.au

The State Library of Victoria has a fantastic photographic database and includes National Service photographs from both schemes.

www.diggerhistory.info

This website, complied by Vietnam-era National Serviceman, Ted Harris, of Brisbane, is one of the most comprehensive and authoritative on the web about Australian and New Zealand military history.  Anything you wish to know about the three Services, individual units, war histories, uniforms, insignia, medals, badges, equipment, weapons and much, much more is recorded and illustrated.  You will be fascinated.

www.naa.gov.au

This website belongs to the Australian National Archives.  The National Archives hold the service records of Australians who served in WWI and WWII.  Digitised copies of WWI records are available free online.  Other records can be located using the Record Search-Name Search facility.

The National Archives also has a great photographic database.

www.awm.gov.au

The Australian War Museum's website contains a wealth of online material and databases (art, photo, film, sound, military technology, private and official records just to name a few).

www.awm.gov.au/database.roh.asp

You may also access the Roll of Honour listing the names of Australia's war dead on the bronze panels at the War Memorial.  The database links to the panel location, any photographs and to digital images of the Roll of Honour Circulars (WWI, WWII, Korea).  The circulars were forms sent to next of kin seeking personal details of the deceased.

www.cwgc.org/default.asp

The Commonwealth War Grave Commission's website has an online Debt of Honour Register listing the details and place of burial of 1.7 million Commonwealth forces members who died in two world wars.

 https://aadaa.asn.au