THE BRITISH OVERSEAS RAILWAYS HISTORICAL TRUST
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Reference Sources for Royal Australian Engineers Military Railways
Following on from the earlier reference sources this document is to assist in research on Royal Australian Engineers Military Railways. You are encouraged to look at the other research pages for further ideas, as there may be some duplication of material and those pages will also give an overall history of the railway. Also, please look at the general research page as that contains many sources that may be of assistance.
Army Museums
Australia has several Army Museums, and they can be found through the following link
https://www.army.gov.au/community/engage-and-learn/army-museums
The Australian Army Museum of Military Engineering can be found at the following link https://www.army.gov.au/community/engage-and-learn/army-museums/australian-army-museum-military-engineering It is physically located at Holsworthy Barracks, Holsworthy, New South Wales 2173.
The Australian War Memorial https://www.awm.gov.au/ in Campbell a suburb of Canberra contains all documents such as Unit War Diaries. It is the national War Memorial Museum. The Unit War Diaries have been digitised and are available for download. They are grouped together in time periods so many pages can be downloaded together.
Military Historical Society of Australia produce a quarterly journal that can be downloaded.
A very brief History of the Royal Australian Engineers.
The Royal Australian Engineers (RAE) is the military engineering corps of the Australian Army (although the word corps does not appear in their name or on their badge).
The origins of the Royal Australian Engineers date back to 15 November 1860, when the Corps of Engineers was founded in the colony of Victoria. By 1876, five of the six colonies—New South Wales, Victoria, Queensland, Tasmania, and Western Australia—had raised their own engineer units. These were amalgamated on 1 July 1902 as the Corps of Engineers. Over the years various other Corps have either been amalgamated with or separated from the RAE. This includes the Royal Australian Survey Corps that was separate from 1915-to 1 July 1996
During WW1 operational theatres included Gallipoli. Egypt and Palestine and France and Flanders. During WW2 RAE units of the Second Australian Imperial Force and militia served in North Africa, Malaya, New Guinea and Borneo campaigns. Since WW2 RAE units have served either on active service or peace keeping operations in Korea, Malayan Emergency, Indonesian Confrontation, Rhodesia with the Commonwealth Monitoring Force, Vietnam, Namibia, Pakistan, Kurdistan, Cambodia, Somalia, Rwanda, Bougainville and Mozambique as well as Timor Leste, the Solomon Islands, Iraq and Afghanistan.
Royal Australian Engineers Bibliography
Author |
Title |
Vol |
Date |
Publisher |
Place |
Remarks |
Anon |
Corps of the Royal Australian Engineers in the Second World War 1939-1945 |
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1946? |
The Specialty Press Pty Ltd. |
Melbourne |
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Bullen, John |
Australian Railwaymen at War 1916-1919, Parts 1 & 2 |
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1995 |
Australian Railway Historical Society |
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Edmonds, Trevor & Jim Longworth, |
The Australian Light Railways of the Gallipoli campaign' |
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2009 |
Light |
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Firth, Michael |
THE VOLUNTEER DEFENCE CORPS AND WESTERN AUSTRALIAN |
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2015 |
Sabretache: The Journal and Proceedings of the Military Historical Society of Australia, Vol. LVI, No.4, pp54-60 December 2015 |
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Firth, Michael |
THE VOLUNTEER DEFENCE CORPS AND WESTERN AUSTRALIAN |
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2016 |
Sabretache: The Journal and Proceedings of the Military Historical Society of Australia, Vol. LVII, no.2 — June 2016 pp52-58 |
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Florence, Brian |
History of 1 Field Squadron Group, Royal Australian Engineers, South Vietnam, 1965-1972 |
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2021 |
Ebook |
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Goode, Tom |
The Cold-Footed Mob: A History of the 5th Australian Broad Gauge Railway Operating Company |
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2016 |
Hesperian Press |
Carlisle, Western Australia |
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Harvey, J.H. |
Australia’s Forgotten Volunteers - Interstate Railwaymen At The Top End Of The Northern Territory During World War Two |
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1992 |
AUSTRALIAN RAILWAY HISTORICAL SOCIETY. |
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Hopkins-Weise, Jeff and Rob Shiels |
Australian Railways at War: The Australasian military railway journey [Parts 1 & 2] |
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02_03_2018 |
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Hopkins-Weise, Jeff and Rob Shiels |
Railways in World War One: Their place in the Australasian military railways journey - part 1 |
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2018 |
Sabretache: The Journal and Proceedings of the Military Historical Society of Australia, Vol.59, No.2, (June 2018), pp.16-26 |
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Hopkins-Weise, Jeff and Rob Shiels |
Railways in World War One: Their place in the Australasian military railways journey - part 2 |
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2018 |
Sabretache: The Journal and Proceedings of the Military Historical Society of Australia, Vol.59, No.3, (September 2018), pp.16-24 & 33. |
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Hughes, I.G. |
Hunslet 1215. A War Veteran's Story |
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2011 |
The Oakwood Press, |
Usk, Monmouthshire UK |
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McKenzie-Smith, Graham |
We make 'EM and we break 'EM': Understanding the Royal Australian Engineers in the Second World War |
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2016 |
Sabretache, 57, 201612, 43 |
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ISSN: 0048-8933 |
McNicoll, Ronald |
The Royal Australian Engineers 1902 to 1919: Making and Breaking. History of the Royal Australian Engineers, |
2 |
1979 |
Corps Committee of the Royal Australian Engineers |
Canberra: Australian Capital Territory |
ISBN 9780959687125 |
McNicoll, Ronald |
The Royal Australian Engineers, 1835 to 1902: The Colonial Engineers. History of the Royal Australian Engineers, |
1 |
1977 |
The Corps Committee of the Royal Australian Engineers |
Canberra |
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The Royal Australian Engineers. 1919 to 1945: Teeth and Tail History of the Royal Australian Engineers, |
3 |
1982 |
Corps Committee of the Royal Australian Engineers |
Canberra: Australian Capital Territory |
ISBN 9780959687101 |
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McNicoll, Ronald; Greville, Phillip |
The Royal Australian Engineers. 1945 to 1972: Paving the Way. History of the Royal Australian Engineers, |
4 |
2002 |
Corps Committee of the Royal Australian Engineers |
Canberra: Australian Capital Territory |
ISBN 978-0-9596871-1-8. |
Oakes, John |
SYDNEY'S FORGOTTEN MILITARY RAILWAYS |
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1997 |
Australian Railway Historical. Society New South Wales Division |
Redfern |
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North Borneo Railway (now Sabah Railway) specific books and articles.
This link is to a series of photos taken whilst the railway was operated by Australian troops at the end of WW2 http://searail.malayanrailways.com/Borneo/Australian%20invasion.htm
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