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This index is taken from the newspaper The News of the Week, Geelong and Western District Illustrated and contains over 10,000 entries on soldiers, nurses and families; marriage, engagements, farewells by families, locals and employers, sports and social clubs, Churches, honour rolls, enlistments, commissions, on leave, returning home, letters to families and friends, wounded, ill, killed in action, obituaries, photos of soldiers, some with family etc.

This newspaper covered the towns west of Geelong, making them numerable to the list, however some are included as follows:

Geelong and suburbs, Anglesea, Apollo Bay, Barwon Heads, Beeac, Bannockburn, Birregurra, Beech Forest, Camperdown, Colac, Cobden, Cressy, Dean's Marsh, Drysdale, Derrinallum, Fyansford, Leopold, Lorne, Meredith, Ocean Grove, PortFairy, Shelford, Wallington, Torquay, Terang, Queenscliff, Warrnambool, Winchelsea, Pomborneit, Inverleigh, Waurn Ponds, Warrion, Anakie, Moolap, Batesford, Airey's Inlet, Lara, Little River, Lethbridge, some Ballarat, Melbourne, Western District and interstate.