Research Guides: Aquinas College War Service: World War I

Useful Research Websites

UNSW AIF Project
Australian War Memorial
National Archives of Australia: Defence and War Service
Trove
Access to digitised newspapers
Research an Australian veteran's war service

War Time Annuals

Aquinas College digital Annuals are available via Aquinas Portal - Senior Library - Oliver Catalogue Search - type 'annuals' in the search bar - download PDF

The College Roll of Honour : CBC Annual, 1917 p. 31-35
Article - Two large and beautifully polished jarrah Honour Boards were unveiled at the Christian Brothers' College on 18th July, 1917, by His Excellency the Governor. They contain the names of 345 boys who have passed through the College, and who have volunteered for active service abroad.
Old Boy's Notes : CBC Annual, 1917 p. 49-65
Article contains information regarding former students of CBC and their war service.
CBC Annual 1914: From Class Room to Sentry Post
Article describing College Citizen Forces mobilisation for active service on Rottnest Island.
W.A. Record : Requiem Mass FOR C.BC. SOLDIER "OLD BOYS." AT CATHEDRAL.
Retrieved Trove
W.A. Record (Perth, WA : 1888 - 1922), Saturday 15 November 1919, page 13
"Names of men (mentioning several) — .but I have no wish to discriminate; there is no need to discriminate ; all were heroes ! "
The preacher then read aloud the. names as follows:-—
The Official History of Australia in the War in France
Bean, C.E.W. (1941). The Official History of Australia in the War of 1914-1918, vol. IV : The AIF in France 1917
On High Ground : For God and Country, WWI and Traditions of Manliness
Massam, Kathatine. (1998). On High Ground, Decade 3: 1915-1924 : For God and Country, WWI and Traditions of Manliness, p. 64-66

Book of Remembrance

Remembrance Book [PDF]

This book is dedicated to those Old Boys of Aquinas College who served to defend their country's freedom. Lists the names of all the old boys who served in World War I, World War II, the wars in Korea, Malaya, Borneo and Vietnam.

The pity of it all : The Fallen Aquinians of WWI
Fish Autumn, 2014, p.44

The pity of it all : The Fallen Aquinians of WWI
Fish, Autumn 2014, p.45

Aquinas College War Service: World War I

Useful Research Websites

War Time Annuals

Book of Remembrance

CBC Annual 1917, p. 53