Maureen The entry below for W Hoffmann could well be your Wilhelm HOFFMANN. The fact that your Wilhelm's second name is not there is irrelevant. The access is "Open" and the year is 1915, but it has not been digitised as has records for the soldiers in WW1. If you wanted to access this file, you will find how to do so on the site Linda has given you. My Grand Uncle was born in Queensland in 1886 of German parents and enlisted in WW1. He was injured in France within days of his German cousin, who remained in Germany, being killed in action in France. I take it your Wilhelm Hoffmann was German born. Di. Title Hoffmann W Series number MP16/1 Control symbol 1915/3/416 Contents date range 1914 - 1923 Access status Open Location Melbourne Barcode 329900 "Maureen Arthur" wrote > I had a good look at the Archives > unfortunately, none of the records are for my Wilhelm. He was a cook, and > his middle name was 'Marcelle'. > Linda wrote > > The name Wilhelm Hoffmann comes up a few times on the National Archives > > site. > > http://www.naa.gov.au/ . Maureen Arthur wrote >My mother has told me that (not all, but a lot of) >Germans and Italians were sent away to camps during >WW2, and I was wondering if the same happened to >Germans during WWI.