COAL MINER DIGGERS

Coal Miner Diggers commemorates the exploits and the deeds of the 1,857 Hunter Valley coal miners who enlisted and served overseas in the AIF’s Mining Corps, Tunnelling Companies and Infantry Battalions during the First World War of 1914 to 1918.

Coal Miner Diggers contains a considerable number of photographic images, maps, extracts from soldiers’ letters and official documents, extensive nominal rolls of the Hunter Valley coal miner Diggers and recipients of awards for bravery in the field. There is also a listing which includes the date of death and place of burial or commemoration of 367 Hunter Valley coal miners killed in the First World War.

THE MARCH OF THE WALLABIES

The March of The Wallabies describes in complete detail the
day-by-day journey by volunteers from the north-west region of New South Wales and the Hunter Valley who answered their country’s call to arms and had undertaken to march from Narrabri to Sydney to gather more recruits during the First World War of 1914-1918.

The March of The Wallabies allows the reader to follow in their footsteps and relive the welcomes, the recruiting meetings and the hardships which were part of this great patriotic recruiting march of eighty five years ago.

WHERE HEROES SLEEP

Where Heroes Sleep commemorates and lists 1,981 Hunter Valley men who died during the First World War of 1914-1918 and their place of burial or commemoration in two hundred and seventy seven cemeteries, not only on the well known battlefields of Gallipoli, France and Belgium, but also in Australia, Egypt, England, Germany, Greece, Iraq, Israel, Lebanon, Malta, Northern Ireland, Poland, Scotland, South Africa, Syria, Wales and West Africa. Where Heroes Sleep contains a considerable amount of enlistment and commemoration details which have been compiled from official records, and appendices containing overviews and statistics of the Hunter Valley fallen and the Hunter Valley missing who have no known grave; a chronology of the key dates of the AIF in World War One and useful information on visiting overseas World War One cemeteries and memorials.

The ideal reference and source book for anyone visiting the First World War battlefields.

HUNTER VALLEY HORSEMEN OF THE SOUTH AFRICAN BOER WAR 1899 – 1902 CD-ROM

Contains the enlistment details of 602 Hunter Valley men who volunteered and served overseas in South Africa, as well as the details of twenty six Hunter Valley men who died while on active service.

HUNTER VALLEY DIGGERS OF
WORLD WAR ONE 1914 – 1918
CD-ROM

by David H Dial OAM
2001.

No Longer Available

Contains the following details of 10,206 men and forty eight women from the Hunter Valley who served overseas: original unit of enlistment, regimental number, family name, given names, rank and age at enlistment, occupation and marital status, address at enlistment, next of kin and address, date enlisted, port of embarkation, transport ship, date of embarkation for overseas service, pre-war militia unit, final unit and rank, service awards and for those not killed during the First World War, the date of their return to Australia. The date of death and the place of burial or commemoration details of 1,981 Hunter Valley men who died on active service are also included.