WWII V.R Roll of Honour

Historical Research

– Looking for the Evidence By Jennifer Baker ( Jenny Baker )

Victorian Railways

- WW11 Rolls of Honour and Obituaries Lists

AWM Photo 078758

MELBOURNE, VICTORIA, AUSTRALIA. 1943-02-25. A TROOP TRAIN, CARRYING VICTORIAN MEMBERS OF THE 9TH DIVISION WHO HAVE JUST DISEMBARKED FROM THE TROOPSHIP, THE MOTOR VESSEL (NAVAL) NIEUW AMSTERDAM, ONE OF THE TROOPSHIPS WHICH BROUGHT THEM FROM THE MIDDLE EAST, PASSING THROUGH A SUBURBAN RAILWAY STATION.

Research Disclaimer : Please note that This Research was done many years ago now :

so the information contained may now be out of date , photos gone missing or web links broken

My apologises : But It has become an impossible task to try and keep it up to date - Jenny

Victorian Railways - WW11 Rolls of Honour and Obituaries Lists

Rolls of Honour and Obituaries lists Published in Victorian Railways Commissioners Reports

1940 - 1946.

For each of the war years 1940 -1946 the Commissioner's Annual Report included the following

A summary statement report on the railway employees at the war
An Honour Roll which was list of railway employees who had enlisted in the past year
An Obituary list of railway employees killed while serving at the war

VR WWII Honour Roll

VR WWII Roll of Honour

Victorian Railways Commissioners Reports

1940

Victorian Railways : report of the Victorian Railways Commissioners for the year ending 30th June 1940

http://www.parliament.vic.gov.au/papers/govpub/VPARL1940No3.pdf

1941

Victorian Railways : report of the Victorian Railways Commissioners for the year ended 30th June 1941

http://www.parliament.vic.gov.au/papers/govpub/VPARL1941No5.pdf

1942

Victorian Railways : report of the Victorian Railways Commissioners for the year ended 30th June 1942

http://www.parliament.vic.gov.au/papers/govpub/VPARL1942-43No4.pdf

1943

Victorian Railways : report of the Victorian Railways Commissioners for the year ended 30th June 1943

http://www.parliament.vic.gov.au/papers/govpub/VPARL1943No9.pdf

1944

Victorian Railways : report of the Victorian Railways Commissioners for the year ended 30th June 1944

http://www.parliament.vic.gov.au/papers/govpub/VPARL1944-45No10.pdf

1945

Victorian Railways : report of the Victorian Railways Commissioners for the year ended 30th June 1945

http://www.parliament.vic.gov.au/papers/govpub/VPARL1945-47No3.pdf

1946

Victorian Railways : report of the Victorian Railways Commissioners for the year ended 30th June 1946

http://www.parliament.vic.gov.au/papers/govpub/VPARL1945-47No24.pdf

1947

Victorian Railways : report of the Victorian Railways Commissioners for the year ended 30th June 1947

http://www.parliament.vic.gov.au/papers/govpub/VPARL1947-48No3.pdf

Victorian Railway Photos taken during WWII

AWM Photo P00784.195

Vic. c. 1944. A woman railway porter with the Victorian Railways pushes a trolley laden with wicker baskets and boxes into a building at a railway station. (This image appears on page 251 of the album presented to Dr Edith Summerskill housed in the AWM Archive Store)

AWM Photo 115859

EN ROUTE TO MELBOURNE, VIC. 1945-09-19. THE FIRST BATCH OF PRISONERS OF WAR RELEASED FROM JAPANESE PRISON CAMPS TRAVELLED BY NSW HOSPITAL TRAIN TO ALBURY WHERE THEY WERE TRANSFERRED TO 6TH AUSTRALIAN AMBULANCE TRAIN FOR THE JOURNEY TO MELBOURNE. SHOWN, DECORATING THE ENGINE FOR THE FINAL RUN INTO SPENCER STREET RAILWAY STATION.

AWM Photo 115864

MELBOURNE, VIC. 1945-09-19. THE FIRST BATCH OF PRISONERS OF WAR RELEASED FROM JAPANESE PRISON CAMPS TRAVELLED BY NSW HOSPITAL TRAIN TO ALBURY WHERE THEY WERE TRANSFERRED TO 6TH AUSTRALIAN AMBULANCE TRAIN FOR THE JOURNEY TO MELBOURNE. SHOWN, PRIVATE B. R. FRANCIS, 8TH DIVISION, STEPPING FROM THE TRAIN ONTO SPENCER STREET RAILWAY STATION.

AWM Photo 138244

MELBOURNE, VIC. 1943-03-23. MEMBERS OF THE 9TH AUSTRALIAN DIVISION ENJOY A CUP OF TEA AT A RAILWAY STATION WHILE IN TRANSIT TO THEIR HOMES ON THEIR RETURN TO AUSTRALIA FROM THE MIDDLE EAST.

References used

RAAF Casualty Database http://www.raafdb.com/index.asp

Australian War Memorial - Person Search https://www.awm.gov.au/

Australian Archives http://www.naa.gov.au/collection/search/

Victorian Railways - Commissioners Reports -