COMPANY RECORDS
Australian
companies contributed to the war effort through manufacturing and shipping for
troops and supplies. Many maintained Rolls of Honour to commemorate staff who
served in the armed forces. After the war pastoral companies
were involved in soldier settlement schemes to provide farms for veterans.
Australian
Agricultural Company
Monthly
despatches between the Company office in
British-Australian Wool Realisation Association
(BAWRA), 1921 (N75/400)
Wartime profits tax, 1914-1920 (131/17)
Closer settlement and resumption acts,
sub-divisions and group settlements (ex-servicemen), 1901-1923 (161/260-1;
161/570)
War Service Homes Commission, Aug 1931 (128/10/12)
Posters, 1914-1918 (1/461)
Adelaide
Steamship Company Limited
Staff Roll of Honour, 1914-1918 (N46/317)
Members of staff who returned from the First World
War, 1919 (Z535/7)
Photograph of SS Grantala
as a hospital ship, 1914 (N46/401)
Photographs of SS Warilda
as a troopship 1915-1916, hospital ship 1916-1917, ambulance transport, 1917-1918
(N46/127-129)
Burns Philp & Company Limited
Staff
Honour Roll, 1914-1919 (N115/524, 591, 628)
Photograph of SS Matunga, early 1900s (N115/502)
Signed copies of
statutory declarations made by employees of Burns Philp
under Regulation 49D of the War Precautions Act, 1916 (N115/78)
Post-WW1 settlement of
German colonies in the Pacific, 1918-1919 (N115/3)
Cavan
Station, Yass, NSW
Correspondence (postcards, letters) received by F W F Castle-Roche from
friends on active service, and other miscellaneous correspondence that
discusses the course of the war and its effect on Company business,
1914-1918 (7/5, 9)
CSR Limited
CSR employees who enlisted in the War, 1914-1918 (142/3498)
Service records and biographical notes on staff,
1914-1918 (142/3494-3496; Z303/16/8)
Military pay to staff members, 1919 (Z303/NS794)
Photograph of the Honour Board to staff members who
enlisted for service overseas, 1914-1917 (142/3500)
Staff Roll of Honour, 1914-1918 (Z303/16/4)
War Relief Fund, CSR Ltd, Sydney and Pyrmont staff,
1914-1919 (142/3497)
‘A record of the war service of members of staff,
1914-1918’ (142/3499, 3501)
Newspaper cuttings,
1914-1918 (142/3578)
Business dealings with Governments subsequent to
1915 (includes notes by E W Knox on his dealings with W M Hughes, Prime
Minister, when the Commonwealth Government was proposing to take over the
Australian sugar industry), 1915 (Z303/11)
Dalgety
Australia Limited
Newspaper cuttings concerning the war, members of
staff etc, 1914-1918 (100/1/81)
Elder Smith and Company Ltd
Wartime trading, 1913-1915 (8/10; 8/16-17; 8/20;
8/57/11-16)
Chartering matters, 1916-1917 (8/75)
Elders Metal & Mercantile Pty Ltd,
1914-1915 (N102/282-283; N102/288)
Photographs of staff members serving in the armed
forces, 1914-1919 (Z220/1-3)
Pay book of Elders’ employees serving overseas in
the AIF, indexed, 1916-1920 (N102/187)
Letters and cards sent to Walter J Young, General
Manager, by former members of staff while on active service, 1914-1917
(8/57/18)
Godfrey
Hirst & Company Pty Ltd
Correspondence and papers
relating to a contract with the Commonwealth Defence Department and the Company
to supply cloth, 1914-1924 (90/64B)
John
McIlwraith Industries Ltd
Personal letters to family members on active service, with references to
the course of the war and its effect on Company business, 1916-1918
(35/2/22-24)
Wartime profits and income tax, 1916-1936 (128/13/8; 128/14/1)
A B Pursell
& Sons Pty Ltd
Newspaper cuttings, 1914-1918 (18/22/1)
‘Remnants from
Tooth & Co Ltd
Staff casualties, 1914-1918 (Z223/14)
Unilever Australia Pty Ltd
Photographs –
Lever Brothers Ltd
fund raising events, 19141-1918 (N163/15/793-803)
Unveiling Lever
Brothers Ltd Roll of Honour, Sunlight Hall, Balmain, 1920 (N163/15/804-805)
UNION RECORDS
Amalgamated Engineering
Dispute and industrial correspondence files -
railway, cane cutters, coal, 1914-1918 (E220/16-21)
Australian Workers
Annual Reports and Balance Sheets regarding the
‘anti-conscription’ levy, 1916-1917 (E154/41/1)
‘No Conscription Campaign’ The Australian Worker
special edition, 1917 (S100)
Federated
Furnishing Trade Society of
Anti-conscription correspondence and poster, 1916-1917 (T11/18)
Federated
Ironworkers’ Association of
Correspondence with Department of Defence, 1918 and Government Small Arms
Factory (Lithgow), 1914-1919 (E218/13-14)
Merchant Service Guild of
‘The cost of the war
to the navigator’ - Annual Report, 1917 (E85/1/3)
Report of proceedings regarding Captain Manning
(Olaf Skold) a German national, 1917 (E85/1/4)
Operative
Stonemasons Society of
Register of members’ payments of the ‘anti-conscription’ levy, 1917-1918
(E117/27)
PERSONAL PAPERS
BOSHER, Jock
Anti-conscription pamphlets, 1916-1918 (P16/1-3)
BARNES, Les
Conscription, referenda (leaflets), 1916-1918 (P8/3)
COUPE, J C
Australian Trade
Unionism and Conscription, the report of proceedings of the
Australian Trade Union Congress,
DAVIDSON, Jack
‘War Experiences, 1914-1918’ typescript, (P117/11)
NORMINGTON-RAWLING,
J
Subject files (containing leaflets, handbills and correspondence)
relating to:
Censorship
and other matters, 1915, 1917-1918 (N57/578-579)
Holsworthy
Concentration Camp, NSW, 1916-1922 (N57/580; N57/2297-2312)
Returned
Sailors & Soldiers’ Imperial League of
Returned
Soldiers’, Sailors’ and Nurses’ Anti-Imperialist Association, 1932 (N57/445)
Ex-Servicemen’s Defence Corps, 1932 (N57/446)
Peace
and anti-conscription organisations, 1902-1943 (N57/438-456)
Anti-conscription
movements in