This dataset is an extract from the photographic collections of the State Library of South Australia and is related to World War 1.The set includes individual photographs and those that were collected in albums. Content includes portraits of soldiers, marches, camps, group shots, on location in the Dardanelles, and Western front, activities on the home front eg Cheer Up Societies, memorial dedications, captured albums eg captured German and Turkish images.

Heroes of the Great War Indexing Project - over 17,000 references to notices published in the South Australian newspaper The Chronicle between 1915 and 1919 under various headings including 'Heroes of the Great War', 'Heroes of the Empire', 'Died on Active Service' and ‘Biographical’. The notices were placed by relatives and friends of World War I service personnel who died, or were wounded, or were decorated. Some newspaper printing errors have been corrected using official sources. This is a subset of the Heroes of the Great War data limited to those entries (3062) that contain a portrait. Data set also includes the reference (date, page and column) within The Chronicle, brief biographical details including name, age, rank, battalion and occasionally place of death. Also included are names of relatives and place of residence in South Australia by street address, suburb or town. For the full data set, see Heroes of the Great War Chronicle Newspaper 1915-1919.

Collection of "In Memoriam" cards with photographs of West Australians killed during the First World War, with brief biographical notes.

Between 1916 and 1919 the South Australian Red Cross Information Bureau undertook research into over eight thousand enquiries from family and friends of missing Australian Imperial Force personnel who fought in WW1. The data contains the names and service detail of the soldier enquired upon and eyewitness; name and address of enquirer, dates of death, locations, National Archives barcode for soldier war service records, date range of enquiry, battalion name.

A collection of more than 700 photographs of World War I soldiers was digitised in 1999 as part of the Adopt-A-Soldier project. We're delighted to announce that this set was recently used in GovHack 2016 for the iHero Application entry https://2016.hackerspace.govhack.org/content/ihero . Summary from the Entry: Our project ''iHero" is a web application that uses facial recognition to search Australian service photos across various conflicts as captured by the State Library of Western Australia, Australian War Memorial, National Archives of Australia and the State Library of Queensland.

Selection of images (60) from the State Library of South Australia collections of Significant South Australians featuring selected men and women of Adelaide's North Terrace plaques. These are a selection of images from a range of subjects and other State library photo sets on Flickr and range from 1815-1951, and includes: Dervish Bejah, Cameleer and explorer Sir Donald Bradman, Cricketer Kate Boadicea Cocks, first female police constable in the British Empire Matthew Flinders, Navigator and explorer Donald Dunstan, Lawyer, reformist, social progressive and Premier of South Australia Rev John Flynn, Founded what became the Royal Flying Doctor Service Sir Robert Helpmann Dancer, choreographer, actor and director Sir Hans Heysen artist and conservationist Colonel William Light Surveyor General, South Australia Mother Mary Mackillop (now Saint Mary of the Cross), Catholic sister, educator and Australia’s first saint Sir Douglas Mawson, Geologist and Antarctic explorer Dame Roma Mitchell, Australia’s first female judge Catherine Helen Spence, Author, journalist, teacher, suffragist, political candidate John McDouall Stuart, Explorer Mary Lee, Suffragist and social reformer Mark Oliphant, Physicist, humanitarian, Governor of South Australia Thomas Playford, Longest serving Premier of South Australia Sir Ross and Sir Keith Smith, piloted first aeroplane from England to Australia Charles Sturt, Soldier and explorer David Unaipon, Aboriginal leader, preacher, inventor and writer

To mark the centenary of World War I, the State Library is in the process of digitising material relating to this conflict. Items include photographs, books, letters, diaries, greeting cards and more.

Portrait photographs of 'Old Colonists' – settlers who arrived in the colony of South Australia before 1841. The men Old Colonists were invited to attend a banquet held by businessman Emanuel Solomon on 28 December 1871 to commemorate 35 years since European colonisation. Photographs are sourced from two composite or 'mosaic' photographs, one of men and one of women.

Approximately 11,000 volumes of letters and diaries of WW1 Australian soldiers have been collected by the Library. For the WWI Centenary Commemoration we have committed to making them accessible to all through digitisation and transcription.