Victorian Genealogy
Finding People and Places in Victoria, Australia.
This section deals with the situation where a person has been memorialised but is buried elsewhere or has no known grave. Please see Cemetery and Crematoria Records when searching for graves or ashes placements. Please see Headstone and Memorial Transcriptions and Photographs when searching for headstones.
DEPARTMENT OF VETERANS' AFFAIRS - COMMEMORATIONS, MEMORIALS AND WAR GRAVES
The Department of Veterans' Affairs website has a section relating to Commemorations, Memorials and War Graves.
https://www.dva.gov.au/commemorations-memorials-and-war-graves
COMMONWEALTH WAR GRAVES COMMISSION
The Commonwealth War Graves Commission website has overseas memorials for Victorian members of the Australian armed forces who died while on active service and have no known grave.
ANCESTRY - UNITED KINGDOM, COMMONWEALTH WAR GRAVES, 1914-1921 and 1939-1947
https://search.ancestry.com.au/search/db.aspx?dbid=2706
FINDMYPAST - COMMONWEALTH WAR GRAVES COMMISSION DEBT OF HONOUR
FINDMYPAST - GERMANY, COMMONWEALTH WAR GRAVES AND MONUMENTAL INSCRIPTIONS
This record set contains three cemeteries from Hamburg – Post War Ohlsdorf Cemetery, Ohlsdorf Cemtery (WW1), and Ohlsdorf Cemtery (WW2). These graves commemorate servicemen and women from the United Kingdom and other Commonwealth nations who died during the First and Second World Wars. Most of the graves belong to airmen who were shot down over northern Germany, prisoners of war who died in captivity, and naval personnel lost at sea whose remains were later recovered.
FINDMYPAST - CZECHIA COMMONWEALTH WAR GRAVES AND MONUMENTAL INSCRIPTIONS
FINDMYPAST - HUNGARY, COMMONWEALTH WAR GRAVES AND MONUMENTAL INSCRIPTIONS
The Budapest War Cemetery serves as the principal Commonwealth war cemetery in Hungary and is a lasting memorial to the servicemen who lost their lives in the country during the Second World War.
FINDMYPAST - GREECE, COMMONWEALTH WAR GRAVES AND MONUMENTAL INSCRIPTIONS
This collection covers the Souda Bay War Cemetery on the Greek island of Crete, which is located roughly 5km from the centre of the city of Chania.
MYHERITAGE - COMMONWEALTH WAR GRAVES 1914-1921, 1939-1947
This collection contains an index of military and civilian casualties of the British Commonwealth during the First and Second World Wars. This collection on MyHeritage is unique in the ability to search also for the casualties' family members.
FORCES WAR RECORDS - UNITED KINGDOM, WORLD WAR 1 AND WORLD WAR 2, COMMONWEALTH WAR GRAVES COMMISSION DEATH REGISTERS
The registers are divided by the cemetery/memorial and list the names of the dead commemorated that are either interned or commemorated there.
VIRTUAL WAR MEMORIAL AUSTRALIA
Virtual War Memorial Australia is an commemorative collection, purpose built to honour the personal experiences of all those who have served the nation in times of conflict, from the Boer War through to Afghanistan. It pays special honour to those who lost their lives as a result of their service and equally honours those who returned, forever changed.
It includes people, memorials, conflicts, units, places, and cemeteries.
THE WAR GRAVES PHOTOGRAPHIC PROJECT
The original aim of the War Graves Photographic Project was to photograph every British war grave, individual memorial, Ministry of Defence grave, and family memorial of serving military personnel from World War 1 to the present day. They have now extended their remit to cover all nationalities and military conflicts and make these available within a searchable database.
FINDMYPAST - MILITARY SERVICE MEMORIAL COLLECTION
This growing archive includes over 100,000 photographs and records from more than 4,000 memorials across the UK, the former British Empire, and Allied nations. You’ll find war graves, rolls of honour, and books of remembrance, including thousands of memorials from both World Wars. It also features tributes to police officers and victims of terrorism, offering a broader view than many official registers. It is searchable and may be browsed.
https://search.findmypast.com.au/search-world-records/military-service-memorial-collection
FINDMYPAST - MILITARY SERVICE MEMORIAL COLLECTION BROWSE
https://search.findmypast.com.au/search-world-records/military-service-memorial-collection-browse
HERALDRY AND GENEALOGICAL SOCIETY OF CANBERRA - GRAVES AND MEMORIALS OF AUSTRALIANS IN THE BOER WAR
The aim of this website is to document all graves and memorials of Australians who served in the Boer War 1899-1900; it provides information on people involved in the Anglo-Boer war and how to research them, and how their service was commemorated in Australia and South Africa.
https://www.familyhistoryact.org.au/boerwar
ANCESTRY - AUSTRALIA, IMPERIAL FORCE BURIALS AT GALLIPOLI, 1915
The Spirits of Gallipoli Project. North Ryde, New South Wales, Australia. This collection includes records of soldiers of the Australian Imperial Force (AIF) who died at Gallipoli in World War I. You’ll find a digital database of service records, plus digital images of portraits, headstones, and memorials. They may be browsed and they are searchable.
https://search.ancestry.com.au/search/db.aspx?dbid=60862
Victoria has more than 1,200 war memorials and many more honour rolls. There were 325 avenues of honour of which 50 remain.
MONUMENT AUSTRALIA
This website is said to contain a comprehensive listing of the monuments and memorials of Australia.
http://monumentaustralia.org.au/
AUSTRALIAN WAR MEMORIAL, CANBERRA
There is a Roll of Honour on the Australian War Memorial website that details members of the Australian armed forces who died while on active service. This may detail the locality that the serviceman or woman came from or local memorials where their names have been inscribed.
https://www.awm.gov.au/advanced-search/people?roll=Roll%20of%20Honour
There is also a Commemorative Roll on the Australian War Memorial website that details Australians who were not members of the Australian armed forces who died during or as a result of wars in which Australians served. It includes those Australians who died while members of Allied Forces, the Merchant Navy, philanthropic organisations attached to the forces or as war correspondents or photographers.
https://www.awm.gov.au/advanced-search/people?roll=Commemorative%20Roll
The Australian War Memorial website has lists and details of members of the Australian armed forces who have been on active service.
https://www.awm.gov.au/advanced-search/people
VIRTUAL WAR MEMORIAL AUSTRALIA
Virtual War Memorial Australia is an commemorative collection, purpose built to honour the personal experiences of all those who have served the nation in times of conflict, from the Boer War through to Afghanistan. It pays special honour to those who lost their lives as a result of their service and equally honours those who returned, forever changed.
It includes people, memorials, conflicts, units, places, and cemeteries.
SHRINE OF REMEMBRANCE, MELBOURNE (PANDORA)
The Shrine of Remembrance, Melbourne website (archived version from 26 Feb 2016 on Pandora) has listings of all people who were either born or enlisted in Victoria who served as members of the Australian armed forces during World War 1, World War 2, the Korean War and the Vietnam War.
https://webarchive.nla.gov.au/awa/20160228143110/http://shrine.org.au/Remembrance
VICTORIAN GARDEN OF REMEMBRANCE, SPRINGVALE
This located at Springvale Botanical Cemetery and has up to 70,000 plaques honouring those who died as the result of service in the armed forces of the Commonwealth in the two world wars and subsequent wars or whose post war deaths are determined by the Department of Veterans Affairs to have been related to war service. Photographs of some of the plaques can be seen on the BillionGraves website.
WAR MEMORIALS IN AUSTRALIA (PANDORA)
This website which is no longer online; an archived version dated 14 May 2013 has been sourced from Pandora. It contains locations, descriptions and images of war memorials in the states and territories of Australia. Memorials include monuments, honour rolls, buildings and a variety of utilitarian facilities all erected in honour and remembrance of those who served their country in war.
http://pandora.nla.gov.au/pan/14043/20130515-0834/www.msk.id.au/memorials2/index.html
VICTORIAN HERITAGE DATABASE - VICTORIAN WAR HERITAGE INVENTORY
Victorian War Heritage Inventory is a database which contains information and images of sites relating to Victoria's war history including war memorials, honour rolls, avenues of honour, memorial buildings, former defence sites and places of commemoration. The VWHI currently lists over 5,000 records relating to heritage places and 97,000 records relating to service people named on honour rolls. It has been incorporated into the Victorian Heritage Database.
Rolls of Honour may be found in newspapers during the war and in the years after the war. See Newspapers, Magazines and Journals.
HERALDRY AND GENEALOGICAL SOCIETY OF CANBERRA - GRAVES AND MEMORIALS OF AUSTRALIANS IN THE BOER WAR
The aim of this website is to document all graves and memorials of Australians who served in the Boer War 1899-1900; it provides information on people involved in the Anglo-Boer war and how to research them, and how their service was commemorated in Australia and South Africa. The site has a searchable database of information from Australian Boer War memorials.
https://www.familyhistoryact.org.au/boerwar
OZ-BOER DATABASE PROJECT - BOER WAR MEMORIALS
This website has a list of Boer War memorials in Victoria.
http://members.pcug.org.au/~croe/ozb/oz_boer6.htm
AUSTRALIAN EX-PRISONERS OF WAR MEMORIAL, BALLARAT
This website has a database of all Australian prisoners of war.
http://www.powmemorialballarat.com.au/
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