Wins, corrections and the decision to count every man. Newest first. The DVA Anzac Portal amendment and the UK National Archives / The Tommies win are both lead achievements. Public press releases live under Media; this page keeps the project record.
DVA Anzac Portal: New Zealand Gallipoli figure amended to 16,000 to 18,000
Win. Australia’s Department of Veterans’ Affairs confirmed it will amend the Anzac Portal New Zealand Gallipoli figure to the 16,000 to 18,000 range used in New Zealand public history (Crawford & Buck / Phenomenal & Wicked / WW100).
Evidence: email from Dr Kylie Galbraith (DVA), 28 October 2026, about 5:01 pm Pacific/Auckland, confirming the portal amendment. Full thread held in project mail; not republished here.
On this site: Gallipoli framing on the landing audit and Sources already treats dual-audited embarkation as travel proof, not a per-man landing certificate, and cites the published NZ landing estimate of about 16,000 to 18,000. The Anzacs Roll Call Gallipoli campaign census: 22,479. Dual-source ship travellers: 23,053.
UK National Archives: Discovery access for ~6.5M Kew soldier records; The Tommies on its own domain
Win. On 23 October 2026 Jason Stemarthe (Digital Downloads Support, The National Archives) confirmed Discovery API access for theanzacs, offered a bulk catalogue download under the Open Government Licence v3.0, and asked for feedback and a link to any published site.
Scope: about 6.5 million Kew soldier record sets in total. Core series WO 372 medal index cards about 5.48 million. Bulk CSV also requested for ADM 188, AIR 79, WO 339 and WO 374 alongside WO 372.
Sister site:The Tommies will be built on that Kew data on an independent domain yet to be released. It is never connected or linked into The Anzacs product navigation as the same site; Media announces it is coming on its own domain.
Commitments: accept OGL; credit The National Archives and link Discovery; share a diagnostic system showing what their data achieves.
The Anzacs Roll Call: exhaustive audit and modern census of WW1 troops
Guy Hollister decided to conduct an exhaustive audit of the entire New Zealand WW1 troop count: every soldier, what regiment they were in, and every ship they sailed to war on, returned on, and went back on (sometimes three times).
The Anzacs Roll Call is that census. It covers the whole Cenotaph WW1 name set under regiment and group, with embarkation ships on the roll where Cenotaph records them, and it encompasses all Gallipoli troops within that full force. The Gallipoli landing audit and the DVA figure correction sit inside this wider count; they are not a separate, smaller roll.
The Anzacs Roll Call SQN field and squadron grouping
The Anzacs Roll Call adds a SQN column with a source key (Cenotaph / ADFA). Squadrons A to J and numbered forms parse from Cenotaph embarkation units into both the SQN field and regiment subgroups where proven. Territorial Main Body squadrons are never invented. ADFA service-number overlay remains empty until ADFA unit pages name Squadrons for Mounted Rifles.
Embarkation HMNZT confirmed in Online Cenotaph and the Navy Museum troopship list, limited to Gallipoli-pipeline sailings (departure on or before 31 October 1915, Samoa excluded). Green Audit tick on The Anzacs Roll Call means that dual match. Exact dual-audited traveller count is embarkation proof, not landing proof.