The Wandong History Group has identified over 170 locals who took part in war, from the Boer War through to WW11, we are compiling each soldiers record and hope to have a comprehensive file on each soldier that will be available for viewing.

We also hold a small library of military publications; members are welcome to borrow the books. The list of publications is below.

HWG- RK – An ANZACS Story – Roy Kyle

HWG- RSL – The RSL book of World War One

HWG- – PG General Sir Peter Cosgrove.

HWG – LC 1 The Great War- Les Carlyon
HWG – AH -2 Young Digger- Anthony Hill
HWG – AH -3 The Story of Billy Young- Anthony Hill
HWG – PAS-4 The ANZACS- Patsy Adams Smith
HWG- BF- 5 Walking Wounded- Brian Freeman
HWG – DC-6 The Battle For Lone Pine
HWG- NM-7 Keep your Head Down- Nathan Mullins
HWG- PG – 8 An Awkward Truth- Peter Grose
HWG- GW 9 The Penguin Book of Warld War Poetry- Geoge Walter
HWG- DVA 1 Australias Home Defence- 1939-1945 – Australians in the Pacific War DVA
HWG- DVA 2 Burma and India 1941-1945 — Australians in the Pacific War- DVA
HWG- DVA 3 Royal Australain Navy 1939-1945 -Australians in the Pacific War- DVA
HWG- DVA 4 Aitape- Wewak 1944-1945 -Australians in the Pacific War- DVA
HWG- DVA 5 Royal Australian Air force 1941-1945 -Australians in the Pacific War- DVA
HWG- DVA 6 Borneo 1942-1945 -Australians in the Pacific War- DVA
HWG- DVA 7 Kokoda 1942 -Australians in the Pacific War- DVA
HWG- DVA 8 Wau- Salamaua 1942-1943 -Australians in the Pacific War- DVA
HWG- DVA 9 The Huon Peninsula 1943-1944 – Australians in the Pacific War- DVA
HWG- DVA 10 New Britian 1941-1945 – Australians in the Pacific War- DVA
HWG- DVA 11 The Markam and Ramu Valleys 1943-1944 – Australians in the Pacific War- DVA
HWG- DVA 12 Battle of Beachheads – Australians in the Pacific War- DVA
HWG- DVA 13 Victory in the Pacfic 1945 – Australians in the Pacific War- DVA
HWG- DVA 14 Greece and Crete- Australians in World War 2- DVA
HWG- DVA 15 North Africa and Syria – Australians in World War 2- DVA
HWG- DVA 16 Royal Australian Navy in the Atlantic and Medditeranean- Australians in world War 2- DVA
HWG- DVA 17 Australian Flying Corps- Australians in World War 1- DVA
HWG- DVA 18 Home Front- Australians in World War 1- DVA
HWG- DVA 19 Royal Australian Navy – Australians in World War 1- DVA
HWG- DVA 20 Australian Light Horse – Australians in World War 1- DVA
HWG- DVA 21 Audacity – Centenery of Service- DVA
HWG- DVA 22 Ancestry – Centenery of Service- DVA
HWG- DVA 23 Resource – Centenery of Service- DVA
HWG- DVA 24 Curiosity – Centenery of Service-DVA
HWG- DVA 25 Candour – Centenery of Service- DVA
HWG- DVA 26 Devotion- Centenery of Service- DVA
HWG- DVA 27 1918 Villers Bretenoux to Le Hamel – Australians on the Western Front- DVA
HWG- DVA 28 1917 Bapaume and Bullecourt – Australians on the Western Front- DVA
HWG- DVA 29 1918 Amiens to the Hindenburg Line – Australians on the Western Front- DVA
HWG- DVA 30 M is for Mates- Animals in war time from Ajaz to zep- DVA
HWG- DVA 31 Chinese ANZACS- DVA
HWG- DVA 32 Forever Yours – Stories of wartime Love and Freindship- DVA
HWG- DVA 33 Australia under attack – Sydney and Midget Submarines 1942- DVA
HWG- DVA 34 Stolen years – Australian Prisoners of War – DVA
HWG- DVA 35 Vietnam 1968 The Battle of Fire Support Bases Coral Balmoral- DVA
HWG- DVA 36 Out in the Cold – Australians involvement in the Korean War 1950-1953 – DVA
HWG- DVA 37 Vietnam- DVA
HWG- DVA 38 Reflections – Capturiing Veterans Stories- DVA
HWG- DVA 39 Australian Women and War- Melanie Oppenheimer
HWG- DVA 40 Memories and Memorabilia – DVA
HWG- LDHS 41 The stories of 15 local men and women who answered the call. – Lilydale Historical society
HWG PS 42 Tobruk- Peter Fitsimmons
HWG RM 1 Pompey Elliot at War – In his own words- Ross McMullin
HWG- TL 1 WW2 China- Burma-India Time Life books – Don Moser
HWG- TL 2 WW2 Rising Sun Time Life books- Arthur Zich
HWG- TL 3 WW2 Return to the Philipines Time Life books- Rafael Steinberg
HWG- TL 4 WW2 Island Fighting – Rafael Steinberg
HWG- TL 5 WW2 Prelude to War – Robert T Elson
HWG- TL 6 WW2 Russia Besieged – Nicolas Bethell
HWG- TL 7 WW2 Blitzkrieg – Robert Wernick
HWG- TL 8 WW2 The Battle of Britian -Leonard Mosley
HWG- TL 9 WW2 The Battle of the Atlantic- Barri Pitt
HWG- TL 10 WW2 War in the desert- Richard Collier
HWG – RSL 1 Lest We Forget -Sekuless and Rees
HWG – SO 1 Soldiering on the Australian Army at Home and Overseas- Australian War Memorial
HWG – SO 2 Soldiering on the Australain Army at Home and Overseas- Australian War Memorial
HWG – SO 3 Soldiering on the Australian Army at Home and Overseas- Australian War Memorial
HWG- AYW 1 As you were 1946- Australian- War Memorial
HWG- AYW 2 As you were 1947 Australian- War Memorial
HWG- AYW 3 As you were 1948 Australian- War Memorial
HWG – JW 1 Jungle Warfare with the Australian army in the South-West Pacific 1944- Australian War Memorial
HWG – JW 2 Jungle Warfare with the Australian army in the South-West Pacific 1945 Australian War Memorial
HWG – KG 1 Khaki and Green 1943- Australian War Memorial
HWG – S 1 Signals Story of the Australin Corps of Signals- Australian War Memorial
HWG- AS 1 Active Service – With Australia in the Middle East- Australian War Memorial
HWG – OG 1 On Guard – with the volunteer defence corps- Australian War Memorial
HWG – SAD 1 South African Defence ?
HWG – MM 1 Morseby Mice. The Aussies and the Yanks in Papua- G B Bill Graham
HWG – SE 1 Stand Easy 1945- Australian War Memorial
HWG AWW2. 1 Australia in the War of 1939-1945 – Benghazi- Australian War Memorial
HWG AWW2. 2 Australia in the War of 1939-1945 Greece Crete and Syria Australian- War Memorial
HWG AWW2. 3 Australia in the War of 1939-1945Air War against Germany and Italy 1939-1943- Australian War Memorial
HWG AWW2. 4 Australia in the War of 1939-1945 Clinical Problems of War Australian- War Memorial
HWG AWW2. 5 Australia in the War of 1939-1945 War Economy 1939-1942 -Australian War Memorial
HWG AWW2. 6 Australia in the War of 1939-1945 The Government and the People 1939-1941- Australian War Memorial
HWG AAA .1 Australia at arms- Norman Bartlett
HWG AK.1 With the Australians in Korea- Norman Bartlett
HWG GEW 1 The History of the Great European War Volume V1- W.Stanley Macbean Knight
HWG GEW 2 The History of the Great European War Volume V1111- W.Stanley Macbean Knight
HWG GEW 3 The History of the Greath European War Volume 1X- W.Stanley Macbean Knight
HWG RR.1 Renaissance and Reformation- VC H H Green
HWG TR 1 The reformation- G R Elton
HWG WW2.1 The day I went to war- R. R Vial
HWG WW2.2 Day of Infamy Pearl Harbour- Walter Lord
HWG WW2.3 The Spirit of Kokoda- Patrick Lindsay
HWG WW2.4 Fall of the Philipines- Ward Rutherford
HWG WW2.5 White Coolies- Australian nurses behind enemy lines- Betty Jeffery
HWG WW2.6 Nothing Over Us- The story if The 2/6th Infantry Battalion- David Hay
HWG WW2.7 The Western Desert Campaign 1940-41- Glenn Wahlert
HWG WW2.8 The War Diaries of Weary Dunlop- Java and the Burma- Thailand Railway- E E Dunlop
HWG WW2.9 Weary- The life of Sir Weary Dunlop- Sue Ebury
HWG WW2.10 Wartime Trilogy- Out of the smoke, Into the smother, the sword and the blossom- Ray Parkins
HWG WW2.11 A Bastard of a Place. The Australians in Papua- Peter Brune
HWG WW2.12 Australia Under Siege- Steven L Carruthers
HWG WW1. 1 Two eggs on my plate- Oluf Reed Olsen
HWG WW1. 2 The Dam Busters- Paul Brickhill
HWG WW1. 3 Reach for the sky- The story of Douglas Bader Paul Brickhill
HWG WW1. 4 The Rommel Papers- B H Liddell Hart
HWG WW1. 5 Some Desperate Glory- Max Egremont
HWG WW1. 6 They Dared Mightily- Lionel Wigmore
HWG WW1.7 Their Lawful Occasions- Herbert Evans
HWG V 1 Ashes of Vietnam- Stuart Rintoul
HWG V 2 Ridding the Devils- Frank Palmos
HWG V 3 Tears on my pillow- Narelle Biedermann
HWG V 4 Chicken hawk- John Del Vecchio
HWG V 5 The Nashos War- Mark Dapin

HWG SEA .1 South East Asia- E H G Dobby
HWG 1 Eyewitness Faulklands- Robert Fox
HWG 2 Aircrew The story of the men who flew the bombers- Bruce Lewis
HWG 3 Animal Heroes- Anthony Hill
HWG 4 Highways to a War- Christopher J Koch
HWG 5 Johnny Gurkha- Friends in the hills- E. D Smith
HWG 6 Surface with Daring- Douglas Reeman
HWG 7 General Sir Peter De La Billiere- Looking For Trouble- Sir Peter De La Billiere
HWG 8 Trackers The untold story of the Australian Dogs of War- Peter Haran
HWG 9 One Crowded Hour- Tim Bowden
HWG 10 Forged by War- Gina Lennox
HWG 11 Military Badge Collecting- John Gaylor
HWG 12 War Junkie- Jon Steele
HWG 13 The War atTroy- Lindsay Clarke
HWG 14 In the Line of Fire- Rex Sadler Tom Hayllar