Links To Other Medals Websites
The following list of links to other medals websites is not exhaustive. Publication of this list and the links it provides does not imply that the New Zealand Defence Force endorses any particular site or believes that the information contained in it is necessarily correct. Links are also provided to a range of New Zealand, Australian, British and Canadian military museums, war memorials, military history websites, personnel record archives, the Commonwealth War Graves Commission and the Royal New Zealand Returned and Services' Association.
Quick Links Within This Links Page
- Military Museums, War Memorials, Military History, and Personnel Records:
- New Zealand Military Museums and War Memorials
- New Zealand Military History
- Australian Military Museums and War Memorials
- Australian Military History
- Canadian Military Museums
- United Kingdom Military Museums
- United States Military History
- New Zealand Military Personnel Records
- Australian Military Personnel Records
- Veterans Associations and the CWGC:
- New Zealand Veterans' Associations
- Tribute 08
- Commonwealth War Graves Commission
Australia
- http://www.itsanhonour.gov.au - The Australian Honours system
- http://www.defence.gov.au/medals - The Directorate of Honours and Awards, Australian Department of Defence - includes campaign medals
- http://www.minister.defence.gov.au/index.cfm - Australian Defence Ministers and Parliamentary Secretary - Media Releases and Speeches
- http://www.ramint.gov.au - The Royal Australian Mint, Canberra
- http://www.diggerhistory.info/pages-medals/australian_vc.htm - Australian Victoria Cross winners
- http://www.lostmedalsaustralia.com/ - Lost Medals Australia - research site dedicated to the returning of medal groups to the families of Australian service persons. Mainly First and Second World War medal groups, but some groups for Vietnam service are listed too. Some British medal groups are also listed on this website. The Lost Medals Australia website also provides advice on how to locate the military records of individuals who served in the Australian military during the First and Second World Wars.
- http://lostmedalsaustralia.blogspot.com/ - The blog of Lost Medals Australia, which includes general information on, and images of, medals awarded to Australian military personnel
- Very well presented glossy books, with high quality colour photographs, about medals awarded to Australian military personnel can be purchased from the Australian War Memorial, Canberra. One book features Campaign and Operational Medals (1845-2003) (40 pages - 2nd edition, published December 2003); the second book concerns Long Service and Other Non-Operational Awards (1830-2002) (32 pages - 1st edition, published December 2002). The cost of each book is $8.95 (Australian). The first book is out of print, as at 29 October 2007. The postal address for purchases is: Memorial Shop, Australian War Memorial, GPO Box 345, CANBERRA ACT 2601, AUSTRALIA; or by e-mail: memorial.shop@awm.gov.au
Canada
- http://www.cmp-cpm.forces.gc.ca/dhr-ddhr/index-eng.asp - Canadian military website - Directorate of Honours and Recognition site
- http://www.vac-acc.gc.ca/remembers/sub.cfm?source=collections/cmdp - Canadian Orders, Medals and Decorations section of the Veterans Affairs Canada website
- http://www.vac-acc.gc.ca/remembers/sub.cfm?source=collections/cmdp/mainmenu - Canadian Military Medals and Decorations section of the Veterans Affairs Canada website
New Zealand
- http://www.honours.govt.nz - New Zealand Government Honours
- http://www.dpmc.govt.nz/honours/lists/onz.html - living and deceased members of the Order of New Zealand
- http://www.dpmc.govt.nz/honours/lists/index.asp - New Year's, Queen's Birthday, and Special Honours Lists since 1997
- http://www.gg.govt.nz/honours/index.htm - The Governor-General of New Zealand's website
- http://www.omrs.org.uk - the Orders and Medals Research Society
- http://www.honours.homestead.com/nzindex.html - features many miscellaneous NZ medals
- http://www.geocities.com/greekmedals/ - Greek medals awarded to NZ military personnel (mainly for Second World War service)
United Kingdom
- http://www.mod.uk/DefenceInternet/DefenceFor/Veterans/Medals/ - The Medal Office, UK Ministry of Defence
- http://www.veterans-uk.info/medals/medals.html - the medals page of the Veterans UK official government website
- http://www.honours.gov.uk/ - The United Kingdom Honours System
- http://www.honours.gov.uk/honours/wear.aspx - the official United Kingdom Order of Wear
- http://www.tokenpublishing.com/ - publisher of The Medal Yearbook, an annual medals publication
- http://www.toye.com/ - manufacturer of medals and medal ribbons since1685
- http://www.gazettes-online.co.uk - research site for First and Second World War awards
- http://www.spink-online.com - medal manufacturers since 1666
- http://www.dnw.co.uk - well researched medal catalogue
- http://www.documentsonline.nationalarchives.gov.uk/medals.asp - official First World War Medal Cards for individual British personnel
- http://www.documentsonline.nationalarchives.gov.uk/seamens-medals.asp - official records of Second World War medals issued to individual British Merchant Seamen
- http://www.army.mod.uk/servingsoldier/honours_and_awards/recent_awards.htm
- - lists of British Army personnel who have recently been awarded gallantry and bravery awards or Queen's Birthday and New Year Honours
- http://www.firepower.org.uk/victoria_cross_guns.php - information on the Victoria Cross Guns - the guns from which over 800 Victoria Crosses have been made since ca.1914
- http://www.firepower.org.uk/medals_gallery.php - information on the Medals Gallery of The Royal Artillery Museum, located at the Royal Arsenal, Woolwich, South East London
United States
- http://www.militarytimes.com/citations-medals-awards/ - Military Times Hall of Valor. Citations for more than 6,700 United States valor awards from the American Civil War to the present. Often includes photographs of the recipients.
- http://www.militarytimes.com/citations-medals-awards/list.php?category=ConflictPeriods - The citations for valor awards listed by conflict.
- http://www.history.army.mil/moh.html - Medal of Honor citations 1861 to the present - including the U.S. Civil War, the 1871 Korean campaign, First and Second World Wars, Korea, Vietnam, Somalia, Afghanistan and Iraq. Awarded to more than 3,400 recipients since 1861.
United Nations
- http://www.un.org/Depts/dpko/medals/ - United Nations medals and ribbons
Belgium
- www.users.skynet.be/hendrik - medals and awards of Belgium
Worldwide
- http://www.medals.net - provides links to hundreds of medals site
- http://www.medals.org.uk - medals of the world
NEW ZEALAND MILITARY MUSEUMS AND WAR MEMORIALS
- http://www.armymuseum.co.nz - New Zealand National Army Museum, Waiouru
http://www.airforcemuseum.co.nz - Royal New Zealand Air Force Museum, Wigram and Ohakea
http://www.navymuseum.mil.nz - Royal New Zealand Navy Museum, Auckland - http://www.nationalwarmemorial.govt.nz - National War Memorial, Buckle Street, Wellington
http://www.unknownwarrior.govt.nz - Tomb of An Unknown New Zealand Warrior, Buckle Street, Wellington
http://aucklandmuseum.com - Auckland War Memorial Museum, The Domain, Auckland- - including http://www.aucklandmuseum.com/?t=10 for the War Memorial section of their website;
- and http://www.aucklandmuseum.com/130/cenotaph-database for the Cenotaph Database which has an excellent database about those New Zealanders who have died on military service since 1914.
NEW ZEALAND MILITARY HISTORY
- http://www.mch.govt.nz/history/index.html - History Group, Ministry for Culture and Heritage
http://www.mch.govt.nz/history/projects.html - current History Group projects - including New Zealand military history projects
http://www.nzetc.org/projects/wh2/ - Online Official Histories of New Zealand and the Second World War
http://www.dnzb.govt.nz/dnzb - Dictionary of New Zealand Biography
http://www.nzhistory.net.nz - NZHistory.Net.NZ
- http://www.vietnamwar.govt.nz - The Vietnam War Oral History Project
- - a four-year project led by the Ministry for Culture and Heritage to record the Memories of New Zealand and the Vietnam War. The Ministry for Culture and Heritage invites those New Zealanders who served in Vietnam and their families to record their memories on this website.
- NEW - http://www.28maoribattalion.org.nz/ - The 28th Maori Battalion website
- - recording service during the Second World War by the 28th Maori Battalion.
- NEW - http://www.nzans.org - The New Zealand Military Nursing website
- - recording service by New Zealand military nurses from the 19th Century to today.
- NEW - http://www.anzac.govt.nz/index.html - Information about Anzac Day
- - includes a search function for information on New Zealanders who died at Gallipoli. Searchable by surname, service number, cemetery, and other keywords.
- - includes a search function for information on New Zealanders who died at Gallipoli. Searchable by surname, service number, cemetery, and other keywords.
- A Bibliography of New Zealand Military History - an online list maintained by the New Zealand Defence Force Archives
- http://www.natlib.govt.nz/collections/digital-collections/papers-past - Papers Past - digitised New Zealand newspapers 19th C to 1920 - including The Evening Post (Wellington) up to 1920.
- http://www.natlib.govt.nz - National Library of New Zealand - various digital collections, catalogues and on-line resources of interest to those researching New Zealand military history
AUSTRALIAN MILITARY MUSEUMS AND WAR MEMORIALS
- http://www.raafmuseum.com.au - Royal Australian Air Force Museum, Point Cook, Victoria, Australia
http://www.mm.wa.gov.au - Western Australian Maritime Museum, Fremantle, Australia
http://www.awm.gov.au - Australian War Memorial, Canberra, Australia- - the AWM website contains over 200,000 photographs, the 102,800 names of Australia's war dead, and details of 8,000 private records.
- http://www.vietnamvetsmuseum.org - The Vietnam Veterans Museum, 57 Phillip Island Road, San Remo, Victoria, Australia
AUSTRALIAN MILITARY HISTORY
- http://www.awm.gov.au/histories/index.asp - Online Australian First World War Official Histories - 15 volumes
- http://www.awm.gov.au/units/index.asp - Australian Military Units - First and Second World Wars
- http://www.awm.gov.au/atwar/statistics/index.htm - Australian Military Statistics
- http://www.awm.gov.au/atwar/conflict.htm - Australian Military History: An Overview
- http://www.awm.gov.au/research/peacekeeping
- - information on the project to write the Australian Official History of Peacekeeping and Post-Cold War Operations. The first volume of this official history is due for publication in 2007. The project team is interested to hear from Australian ex-peacekeepers, especially those who have letters, diaries, or other material relating to their service.
CANADIAN MILITARY MUSEUMS
- http://www.warmuseum.ca/cwm/cwme.asp - Canadian War Museum, LeBreton Flats, Ottawa, Canada
UNITED KINGDOM MILITARY MUSEUMS
- http://www.iwm.org.uk - Imperial War Museum, London
http://www.national-army-museum.ac.uk - National Army Museum, London
http://www.nmm.ac.uk - National Maritime Museum, London
http://www.rafmuseum.org.uk - Royal Air Force Museum, London
http://www.firepower.org.uk/index.php - The Royal Artillery Museum, located at the Royal Arsenal, Woolwich, South East London - http://www.royalmarinesmuseum.co.uk - Royal Marines Museum, Southsea, Portsmouth
http://www.royalnavalmuseum.org - Royal Naval Museum, HM Naval Base, Portsmouth
United States Military History
- http://www.history.army.mil/bookshelves.html - Online versions of numerous United States military histories from 1776 (the start of the War of Independence) to the present
- http://www.history.army.mil/html/bookshelves/resmat/WW2-AP.html - Online versions of numerous United States military histories of the Asiatic-Pacific campaign during the Second World War
NEW ZEALAND MILITARY PERSONNEL RECORDS
- Archives New Zealand, Wellington
- - for the service records of New Zealand military personnel who served between 1899 and 31 December 1920.
- New Zealand Defence Force Archives, Trentham Military Camp (previously known as Personnel Archives, and earlier as Base Records)
- - for the service records of New Zealand military personnel who served after 1 January 1921.
- Commonly used abbreviations in New Zealand military service records from the First World War, Second World War and Korean War - see the section entitled 'Abbreviations'
AUSTRALIAN MILITARY PERSONNEL RECORDS
- http://www.naa.gov.au/the_collection/family_history/armed_services.html
- - Australian Defence service records since 1901, searchable online index providing full name, service number, date and place of birth, place of enlistment, next of kin, and file reference to the complete paper, microfiche or microfilm file. (Index hosted and maintained by the National Archives of Australia, Canberra)
- - Lost Medals Australia - provides advice on how to locate the military records of individuals who served in the Australian military during the First and Second World Wars.
NEW ZEALAND VETERANS' ASSOCIATIONS
- http://www.rsa.org.nz - Royal New Zealand Returned and Services' Association
- http://kiwigunners.blogspot.com/ - Royal New Zealand Artillery Association's blog: Muzzle Flashes
Tribute 08
- http://www.tribute08.co.nz
- - Tribute 08 was a commemoration and reunion event for all New Zealand Vietnam veterans and their families. Veterans from other forces that served in Vietnam also attended and the event was of national significance with an international perspective and interest. Tribute 08 was held in Wellington over Queen's Birthday weekend from Friday 30 May to Sunday 1 June 2008.
- http://www.vietnamwar.govt.nz - The Vietnam War Oral History Project
- - a four-year project led by the Ministry for Culture and Heritage to record the Memories of New Zealand and the Vietnam War. The Ministry for Culture and Heritage invites those New Zealanders who served in Vietnam and their families to record their memories on this website.
COMMONWEALTH WAR GRAVES COMMISSION
- http://www.cwgc.org - Commonwealth War Graves Commission
This page was last reviewed 21 April, 2010 and is current.