Lives of the First World War

Source information

ID: 8215561

Reference: ANZ/FIRST-AU0IMP

Title: Australian ANZACs from the National Archives of Australia

Description: This dataset lists Australian ANZACs - they are people who have personnel files for their service in the Australian Imperial Force (AlF) during the First World War. The personnel files are held by the National Archives of Australia (Archives). The entries in this dataset are linked to their personnel files on the Archives site. There you can find Attestation Papers, Service and Casualty Forms and other miscellaneous military documents and correspondence. Soon you will be able to find additional information from Archives and other sources on the Archives site.

URL: http://discoveringanzacs.naa.gov.au/browse/records/181769
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UPP: ANZ/FIRST-AU0IMP/144134

Credit: © National Archives of Australia

Source information

ID: 9136262

Reference: au_aif_embarkation_roll

Title: Australian Imperial Force Embarkation Roll 1914-1918 Transcription

Connected by: Jonathan101862

UPP: ANZ/AIF/EMBARKATIONROLL/268271

Additional: Matches Clara Deacon of the Australian Imperial Force.

Credit: © Australian War Memorial

Source information

ID: 9136267

Name: National Archives of Australia

Title: Deacon Clara

Description: Attestation paper showing promotion to Sister and Military Medal.

Connected by: Jonathan101862

URL: https://discoveringanzacs.naa.gov.au/browse/records/181769
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Additional: Matches full name and Military details.

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ID: 9136268

Name: Barrett J. Carr published in Australian Dictionary of Biography, Volume 8, (MUP), 1981

Title: Deacon, Clare (1891–1952)

Description: Biography

Connected by: Jonathan101862

URL: http://adb.anu.edu.au/biography/deacon-clare-5926
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Additional: Matches name, although first name here Clare, and matches Sister and Military Medal.

Source information

ID: 9136277

Name: Publication date:25 September 1917 Supplement:30312 Page:10038

Title: The London Gazette

Description: "AUSTRALIAN IMPERIAL FORCE Nursing-Sister Clare Deacon, Aust. A.N.S

Connected by: Jonathan101862

URL: https://www.thegazette.co.uk/all-notices/notice?text=Clare+Deacon&service=all-notices
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Additional: Matches name, although the first name in the Gazette is Clare, and matches military details - Australian Imperial Force, Australian Army Nursing Service and rank of Sister.

Source information

ID: 9136679

Title: Australian Attestation Paper

Description: Sister Clara Deacon M.M.

Connected by: Jonathan101862

Additional: Downloaded to own computer from Ancestry.co.uk a permitted option

Source information

ID: 9136717

Name: Museum's Administrative Records

Title: IWM to Ward J.

Description: Regarding Military Medal awarded to: Nursing Sister Clare Deacon, Staff Nurse Jane Derren, Nursing Sister Dorothy Gwendolen Cawood, Nursing Sister Alice Ross-King dated 3rd October 1917.

Connected by: Jonathan101862

URL: https://www.iwm.org.uk/collections/item/object/1020011337
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Additional: What I find confusing is at some point the first name Clara was changed to Clare otherwise it all matches.

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