persons_british

Australian officers

Australian Army	Royal Australian Navy	Royal Australian Air Force
Army Officers	Royal Australian Navy (RAN)	Royal Australian Air Force (RAAF)
	Royal Australian Naval Reserve (RANR)
	Royal Australian Naval Volunteer Reserve (RANVR)

Sources
For all Australian servicemen the primary (available) sources have been:

Who's Who 1897-1998 (CD-ROM version)
Who's Who 1946, 1953, 1968, 1990
The Monthly Army List, January 1937 & January 1939
The Half-Yearly Army List, January 1946 [reprinted as: Services of British Army Officers &cc 1939-1945 (1999)]
The Quarterly Army List, April 1941 & April 1944 & April 1946
The Army Gradation List, February 1957 & February 1967
The Navy List, August 1939 & July 1945 & April/July 1946
The Navy List of Retired Officers, together with the Emergency List, 1959
The Air Force List, April 1954

Possible additional sources and/or literature are given, in short, at the end of each individual biography. Following are some detailed descriptions:

[Boatner]	Mark M. Boatner III. Biographical dictionary of World War II (Novato, CA : Presidio Press, 1996)
[CB]	Current biography : who's news and why (New York : H.W. Wilson Company, 1940s) [annual editions]
[D-Day enc]	David G. Chandler, James Lawton Collins, Jr. (eds.). The D-Day encyclopedia (Oxford : Helicon, 1994)
[DNB]	Dictionary of national biography (London : Oxford University Press, 1908-...) [one volume every ten years]