About Our Project

2014 will be the centenary year of Australia’s first deployment of soldiers to Europe to fight in the First World War.

The purpose of the Adopt a Digger Project is to commemorate that centenary by honouring the men and women from the (current) Sunshine Coast region of South-east Queensland who fought in World War One.

The aim of this website is to create a database which records each soldier’s WW1 military history and a brief personal history. This database will be a valuable source of reference for historians, researchers, descendants and school students, and will be a significant contribution to the historical military records of Australia, and particularly the Sunshine Coast region.

HOW IT WORKS

Join us at AWM Canberra in 2013

09 May 2012

Would you like to join us on a trip to the Nation’s Capital next year? Primarily, we will be going to spend some time at the Australian War Memorial, with a special guided tour around the World War 1 galleries. The guides are just fantastic, and you may have read the news just recently that the Government has pledged a large amount of money to invest in upgrades and new things to see, as part of their commemoration of the Anzac Centenary.

The Ode of Remembrance

25 April 2012

The Ode is an extract taken from the elegy "For the Fallen", by English poet and writer Laurence Binyon (1869-1943). It is in fact, the fourth stanza of the iconic poem.

During World War 1, Binyon wrote the poem while working as an assistant keeper of prints and drawings at the British Museum. He was an author of several volumes of verse. "For the Fallen" was first published in the London Times on September 21, 1914 and later in many anthologies of war verse.

Our 2nd DIG Meeting

25 April 2012

We had a very successful DIG meeting on Saturday 21 April. Genealogy Sunshine Coast allowed us the use of their rooms, and helped our researchers throughout the afternoon.

Matt Smith from Australian War Graves Photographic Archive travelled up from Brisbane to enlighten us with his extensive knowledge of battle history both at Gallipoli and the Western Front. Matt dazzled us with his presentation on Google Maps

Silver War Badge

17 April 2012

John Angus Myers’ researcher was lucky enough to be loaned his war medals and dogtag by a relative in Brisbane. She rang me to come and see them, which I quickly did. Beautifully conditioned and preserved, the medals are in excellent condition and I was surprised to see Myers’ original dogtag, complete, with string, as I believed dogtags were handed in after service.

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Join us at AWM Canberra in 2013

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Silver War Badge

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