During the First World War, several of the company's ships were requisitioned for war service as hospital ships and troopships, including Grantala, Warilda, Wandilla, Willochra, Yankalilla and Echunga.
N46/317 - Staff Roll of Honour, 1914-1918
N46/401 - Photograph of wounded being hoisted on to hospital ship SS Grantala, 1914
N46/127 - Photograph of S.S. Warilda as an ambulance transport ship, 1918
N46/128 - Photograph of S.S. Warilda as a hospital ship at Salonica, 1916
N46/129 - Photograph of S.S. Warilda alongside another hospital ship, c. 1917
78/1/87 - Monthly despatches between the Company office in New South Wales and the Court of Directors in London during wartime, 1914
78/1/88 - Monthly despatches between the Company office in New South Wales and the Court of Directors in London during wartime, 1915
78/1/89 - Monthly despatches between the Company office in New South Wales and the Court of Directors in London during wartime, 1916
78/3/24 - Letterbook of despatches from the Court of Directors in London to the General Superintendent in New South Wales during wartime, July 1913 - May 1914
78/3/25 - Letterbook of despatches from the Court of Directors in London to the General Superintendent in New South Wales during wartime, May 1914 - Oct 1915
126/1/1 - Inward correspondence during wartime, 1917
126/1/2 - Inward correspondence during wartime, 1918
N75/400 - British-Australian Wool Realisation Association (BAWRA), 1921
131/17 - Wartime profits tax, 1914-1929
1/461/1-30 - Wartime recruitment posters, c. 1914-1915
160/332 - War-time Profits Tax Acts, Commonwealth Income Tax Acts, Queensland Income Tax and Consolidated Acts and related material, 1907-1930
N434-793 - Commemorative booklet 'Men of the AMP in the Great War, 1914-1919'
N138/132 - War savings certificates, 1911-1936
N115/591B and 628 - Staff Honour Roll, 1914-1919
N115/502 - Photograph of SS Matunga, early 1900s
N115/78 - Signed copies of statutory declarations made by employees of Burns Philp under Regulation 49D of the War Precautions Act, 1916
N115/3 - Post-WW1 settlement of German colonies in the Pacific, 1918-1919
N115/144-145 - Sale of expropriated German plantations in New Guinea, 1919-1927
N115/524 - Photograph - The first Australian contingent en route to France, 1914 (N115/524)
7/5 - Correspondence (postcards, letters) received by Frederick William Castle-Roche from friends on active service, and miscellaneous correspondence discussing the course of the war and its effect on Company business, 1914-1918
7/9 - Correspondence (postcards, letters) received by Frederick William Castle-Roche from friends on active service, and miscellaneous correspondence discussing the course of the war and its effect on Company business, 1909-1917
N74/10 - Hours, Work and Wages Returns, Pyrmont Refinery, 1894-1931, also indicate enlistment in the AIF
142/3346 - New Zealand sugar supplies Head Office file. A. Astley's reports to General Manager. No. 9 - refined prices, primage duty, tax, special war tax, 1918
142/3493 - World War I papers. Correspondence re service records of CSR staff, 1918-1919
142/3494 - World War I papers. Correspondence re service records of CSR staff, 1918-1919
142/3495 - World War I papers. Service records and biographical notes, 1914-1918
142/3496 - World War I papers. CSR staff alphabetical list, 1914-1919
142/3497 - World War I papers. War Relief Fund. Sydney and Pyrmont staff, 1914-1918
142/3498 - World War I papers. CSR employees. Roll of Honour 1 vol, 1914-1918
142/3499 - World War I papers. A record of the war service of members of the staff 1 vol, 1914-1918
142/3500 - World War I papers. Photographs (10) of Honour Board CSR staff, 1914-1917
142/3578 - Press cuttings World War I, 1914-1918
N305/A5-1-4 - CSR munitions and war effort - World Wars I & II, 1914-1945
N305/A-4-0-4 - Business dealings with Government and others, 1915 -1923 (includes notes by EW Knox on his dealings with WM Hughes, Prime Minister, during the Commonwealth Government’s proposal to take over the Australian sugar industry)
N306/794 - Pay book with names and amounts paid to staff enlisted in the military during World War I, 1919
100/1/81 - Newspaper cuttings concerning the war, members of staff etc, 1914-1918
8/10 - Wartime trading, 1913-1915
8/16 - General letters received by the Adelaide Branch from the London Branch during wartime, 1904-1915
8/17 - General letters received by the Adelaide Branch from the London Branch during wartime, 1913-1914
8/20 - General and code letters and cables sent by the London Branch to the Adelaide Branch and copies of their replies, 1913-1920
8/57/11-16 - Miscellaneous letters, telegrams, memoranda and related papers received and sent by Walter J Young, Manager, 1914-1917
8/57/18 - Letters and cards sent to Walter J Young, General Manager, by former members of staff while on active service, 1914-1917
8/75 - Letters and telegrams sent mainly between Walter J Young (Elder Smith) and Alfred Bright (Gibbs Bright & Co Ltd), Joint Chartering Agents for the Commonwealth of Australia re chartering matters, 1916-1917
N102/187 - Pay book of Elders’ employees serving overseas in the AIF, indexed, 1916-1920
N102/282 - Letters sent and received by WJ Young from Beer, Sondheimer & Co in Frankfurt mainly relating to business arrangements of Elder's Metal & Mercantile Pty Ltd, 1912-1914
N102/283 - Papers relating to Elder's Metal & Mercantile Proprietary Limited (Includes Memorandum & Articles of Association; correspondence with Directors Emil Beer (London), NMT Sondheimer (Frankfurt) and Leo Wreschner (Frankfurt); balance sheets, profit and loss, 1912-1923
N102/288 - Cables and correspondence relating to Elder's Metal & Mercantile Proprietary Limited after the outbreak of war, 1914-1915
N273 - photographs of staff who served in World War I and World War II, 1914-1945
90/64B - Correspondence and papers relating to a contract with the Commonwealth Defence Department and the Company to supply cloth, 1914-1924
74/49/8 - Our Travelling Salesman catalogue 'Special War Edition', Central Square, Sydney, c. 1916
N218/602 - James McEwan & Company shopfront in the first world war. Poster 'In her hour of need your country call for you', c. 1916
129/6 - Orders issued under War Precautions Act about conditions of work, regulation of overtime, selling prices and delivery of coal, 1916-1918
27/47/7 - War Precautions Act Coal Board Orders and Judge's Notes, Northern Collieries Association, 1918
161/260 - Papers relating to New South Wales land settlement policies and proposals, c. 1923
161/570 - New South Wales Closer Settlement and Resumption Acts, 1901-1923
128/10/12 - Correspondence with War Service Homes Commission, 1931
128/13/8 - Thomas Davis, Sheedy and Company (chartered accountants, Tamworth) file re war time profits and income tax, 1927-1936
83/19 - Agreements and lease and license papers - Includes agreements with War Service Homes Commissioner, 1908-1923
9/8 - 27th ordinary general meeting proceedings - Includes Chairman's report on British government's encouragement of companies to sell or lend their American securities to it during World War I, 1916
9/9 - 30th ordinary general meeting proceedings - Includes information on investments in different localities 1891 - 1919 and post-war money market adjustment, 1919
N163/15/803 - Photograph - During the 1914-1918 War - Lever Brothers Ltd (Australia), 1914-1918
N258/39 - Seventh War Loan, The Honor Flag (certificate issued to Mr W.J. Adams); War Office notification of the death of Captain Dudley Adams, Royal Garrison Artillery, United Kingdom, 1918