War and The Hills Shire Bibliography
Hills Voices Online, The Hills Shire Council’s Oral History Project includes war-related resources including
- Hills Wartime Heroes database
- Honour Rolls and Plaques in The Hills
- Ron Smith interview on Castle Hill RSL under Community Stories
- Patricia Robinson interview about 103rd General Hospital at William Thompson Masonic School site during WW2 under Heritage Sites
- Hills During Wartime movie with recollections of 8 WW2 Hills residents
- Movie made by Redeemer Baptist School students about Burnsider D G Simpson who served in WW2
- Patricia Robinson and Ron Smith CDs are also available in talking book collection TKB HVO
Primary Sources
- Honour Rolls, Plaques and Baulkham Hills Patriotic and War Fund Book - copies in LS Pamphlet File War Memorials in The Hills Shire Libraries
- Nominal Roll held by Secretary of Australian Army Medical Women’s Service
Secondary Sources
- Earnshaw, Beverley A Start in Life: A History of the William Thompson Masonic School 1922-1988 LS 362.732 EAR
- Gow, Rod & Wendy, Birch, Val World War 1 Hawkesbury Heroes: Windsor and Richmond Gazette newspaper extracts reports and letters from the front (2 Volumes) LS 940.3 GOW
- Mount-Batten, Betty J. From Blue to Khaki LS 355.348 MOU
- Trimmer, Pam ‘Burns of Gowan Brae’ and ‘Fighting Charlie Cox’ in Heart of The Hills LS 994.41 HEA
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