Unleashed Data set
Title
Heroes of the Great War Chronicle Newspaper 1915-1919
Summary
Heroes of the Great War Indexing Project - over 30,000 references to notices published in
the South Australian newspaper The Chronicle between 1915 and 1919. Some service
personnel had more than one notice within the paper.
The notices were published 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 approximately 10,000 World War I
service personnel who died, or were wounded, or were decorated. Some newspaper printing
errors have been corrected using official sources.
Data set of 9782 notices 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.
Some obituaries within The Chronicle have portraits, although included in this data set, a
separate data set has been created for those entries that have portraits.
Content
1 csv file.
heroes great war chronicle.csv
Source
9782 individual records within the catalogue of the State Library of South Australia
Licence
Creator
Andrew Piperpiper.andrew@slsa.sa.gov.au
Contact
Andrew Piper piper.andrew@slsa.sa.gov.au
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Other Information
This data set can be used in conjunction with Trove. http://trove.nla.gov.au/newspaper?q=
The actual articles to which these citations/reference refer to are reproduced in the digitised
version of The Chronicle available from Trove.
Link to The Chronicle http://trove.nla.gov.au/ndp/del/title/291. Check the box in the top right
hand side to Limit your search to just articles within The Chronicle
Using the Trove API, the digitised versions of the articles can be extracted.
http://trove.nla.gov.au/general/api
Tags
AIF
ANZAC
Australian Imperial
Forces
Australian Light Horse
Battalions
Dead
European War
Missing
Tigris
10th battalion
Belgium
Death
France
Obituaries
Western Front
50th Battalion
Casualties
Deaths
Gallipoli
Obituary
World War One
Dardanelles
Egypt
Great War
Portraits
World War 1
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