World War I, Links to Other Resources

WWI Sites:
Links to Other Resources

The Great War in a Different Light - Accounts from Contemporary Books and Magazines, Photo Galleries and Illustrations.
Images of World War I: the Western Front (part of the Rosenberg site.)
A central site for Military War Art and Artists, including all participants of war in the Twentieth Century
Six European Museums - Art In Commemoration of the 80th Anniversary of the Armistice
WWI As Seen by 54 Painters on Both Sides, an astounding collection representing artists from Guillaume Apollinaire through Eric Kennington to Ossip Zadkine - UNESCO.
Australia
The Australian Archives: From this page can be located Australian WWI serving personnel records, along with memorials and other records of Australian participation in the Great War.
The Australian Defence Force Academy: Includes access to the 'First AIF Database Project' which... seeks to record comprehensive information on all 332,000 men and women (i.e. nurses) who served in the the Australian Imperial Force 1914-19.
The Australian War Memorial
The Daily Diary of L/Corp. Thomas Reginald Part No. 77 Signaller, H.Q.D. 24th Bn. 6th Inf. Bn. 2nd Div., Australian Imperial Forces, France, Dec. 15th 1916.
Australia's Internment camps
Lawrence of Arabia and the Light Horse: Australian War Memorial, 2008. An exhibition.
Shrine of Remembrance, Melbourne.
Belgium
Fort de Loncin. Belgium - 1888-1914; en français et anglais.
Belgian Forts - Liege
Fort de Liezele. Belgium - 1908-1914; concrete fortifications. In Dutch and English.
A new Belgian site, 'In Flanders Fields'.
Les Chevaliers du Ciel, a site in French, from Belgium, on the German fliers, including Richthofen, Voss, Udet.
Canada
The 54th Kootenay Battalion, CEF
The home page of The Black Watch (RHR) of Canada - the senior Canadian Highland Regiment.
Canada at War - The National SchoolNet collections site, part of Canada's Digital Collections, includes the: CEF Attestation Papers; Books of Remembrance; Aviation Hall of Fame; Canadian Military Medals and Decorations; Canadian Veterans Recollect; Courage Remembered; The Northwest Rebellion of 1885; the Taconis Collection and Canadian Military Uniforms. Major resource, en français et anglais.
The Canadian Great War Homepage - The Canadian Military Heritage Project
Canada in the First World War
Internment of Ukrainians in Canada, 1914-1920.
"Badly Treated in Every Way" - The Internment of Ukrainians in Quebec During the First World War.
Canadian Air Aces and Heroes, in WWI, WWII and Korea.
National Archives of Canada, with sections dealing with locating and obtaining Canadian Service records held within the Archives.
Le Canada pendant la Première Guerre mondiale et la route vers la crête de Vimy
The Canadian War Museum (English version)
The 48th Highlanders of Canada (unofficial); South Africa, Great War, Ypres etc.
The history of the 20th Canadian Battalion, in Flanders and France.
Glenbow Museum (Calgary, Alberta, Canada) , featuring images from its rich collection.
Over the Top, at the Canadian War Museum.
Songs of the Great War.
Museum of the Regiments, Calgary, Alberta, Canada.
Veterans Affairs Canada, The First World War.
The War Diaries of Canadian Andrew Cecil Meredith Thomson of Quebec, June 18, 1915 to May 20, 1917.
Czechoslovakia
The Czech Legions.
Czechoslovakia and WWI
England/Great Britain
The British Library, including the India Office Library.: London, England.
Captain Noel Chavasse, Medical Officer of the 10th (Liverpool Scottish) Battalion, the King's (Liverpool) Regiment, England, the only man to win the Victoria Cross twice during the Great War. The primary reference for his life.
The Cunard Archive (incl. Cunard Lines' troop transports and merchant cruisers) at the University of Liverpool, England.
Examination papers concerning the Great War may be found at: GCSE WWI History Revision (England).
Tom Morgan's Hellfire Corner, a superb WWI site focussing on British and Imperial involvement.
Imperial War Museum, London, England.
The International Internet Encyclopædia of the First World War, England, an ambitious schools project with local history links. Ongoing.
The Napier University (Scotland) presentation of Craiglockhart Hospital and the poets Sassoon and Owens. Includes a reproduction of the Hydra hospital literary journal.
The Wilfred Owen Digital Multimedia Archive, the University of Oxford, England's innovative and comprehensive archive dealing with Owen, with film clips, photographs, poetry tutorials and a complete run of the Hydra.
National Register of Archives for the United Kingdom; England.
Oxford WWW Isaac Rosenberg Tutorial: A WWI Chronology, interpretative material and contextual information.
The Northallerton Memorials Project - the record of the war dead of Northallerton, Romanby & Brompton, North Yorkshire, England.
Poets of Shropshire (including Wilfred Owen): England.
The Psywar Society of Great Britain publishes The Falling Leaf, which has published articles dealing with the Great War, including 'The First Leaflet of the First World War', 'Propaganda Behind The Lines', and 'Air Disseminated Postcards of the First World War.
The Public Record Office, Kew, England. Includes the complete Public Records Office Catalogue, upcoming PRO events and releases concerning the Great War.
The RAMC Home Page, England
The Robert Graves Society Information Centre: St. John's College, England.
The Royal British Legion Home Page, England
Great Britain's Soldiers Died in the Great War 1914-1919 site, with search engine, database, access to the CD.
WW1: Experiences of an English Soldier: This blog is made up of transcripts of Harry Lamin's letters from the First World War. The letters are posted sequentially, exactly 90 years after they were first written.
France
Le site web du départment de l'Aisne, France. En français.
American Battlefields in France: Chateau-Thiery and Belleau Wood.
Cimetière de Cleméncins et Le Cimetière militaire de Crouy. En français.
La Deuxième Bataille de la Marne 1914-1918, France - The Second Battle of the Marne River; Pour tout savoir sur la Bataille et les détails des opérations de la Commémoration de la Deuxième Bataille de la Marne. En français.
Commemoration at Metz, and the Verdun 1916: un Train-Expo à Metz, France.
French Diplomats and Presidents, both images and biographies, from the Ministère des Affaires Etrangères.
Saint-Pierre et Miquelon et la Grande Guerre -- "Lors de la première Guerre Mondiale, des centaines d'hommes de Saint-Pierre, l'Ile aux Marins, et Miquelon furent transportés en France à bord du paquebot le Chicago. La majorité de ces hommes furent incorporés dans les régiments d'infanterie coloniale. Plus d'une centaine de ces soldats mourront sur les champs de bataille: la Marne, Verdun, Douaumont, le Fort de Vaux...
Collections of images from France: July - August 1918, from Soissons and from a hospital, possibly at Moulin. Both collections by Avishai Halevy.
"La Musée de L'Emperi" en français et anglais. Includes pages on Camerone, the late French Empire and on Great War Artillery.
Le colloque international "Traces de 14-18". En français.
la Service Historique de l'Armée de Terre, Vincennes, France.
Somme: a Land of History - ANZAC connexions to the Somme, presented by the French Conseil Général de la Somme. En français and English.
The "Association 1914-1918" of France, homepage. En français.
The Battle of Verdun, 1916
General Information
The First World War 1914-1918 - A website of Rene Brouwer in the Netherlands.
A General and eclectic survey of the literature of the Great War is found at BYU's display of
An Anthem for Dead Youth.
General Historical Links - 'The Scholars Guide' serves as a very useful central point for investigation.
General information - Great War Knitting patterns: the Khaki Knitting Book, 1917
General- Full-text transcriptions of Novels and other books of the WWI era, including the Parody Outline of History.
Story Bytes - Very Short Stories written on the General conduct and events of the Great War.
Trenches on the Web (Graphic Images of Trench Warfare-- World War I).
The General Strike & Labour Actions
The General Strikes Page, including Calgary, Winnipeg and Great Britain.
The Bisbee IWW Deportation of July 12, 1917 (Arizona).
Germany
Die Darstellbarkeit des Krieges im Museum ("The Presentation of War in Museums")
A German site reporting on the conference of the same name.
Deutsches Historisches Museum: German Historical Museum, Berlin.
Die deutsch-amerikanischen Beziehungen vom 1. Weltkrieg bis zu den Anfängen der NS-Herrschaft: German-American relations from WWI to the Nazi era.
World War I Page of the Max-Planck Institute (Germany).
The Ernst Jünger Home Page. (German author).
Greece
The Hellenic Resources Network. Material related to Greece, Turkey, Cyprus, the Balkans, Armenia and Kurdistan during the Great War.
Latvia
The Latvian Museum of War Research Library, Riga, Latvia.
Mexico
Historia de la Revolucion Mexicana: A non-traditional view of the Mexican Revolution. En espanol.
The Netherlands
The Heritage of the Great War based in The Netherlands, primarily in Flemish/Dutch; Great War posters, cartoons, photographs, articles dealing with toxic gas and shells.
The Netherlands Western Front Museum
An Unfortunate Region - the Netherlands
Newfoundland
Newfoundland and the Great War
New Zealand
The New Zealand Museums.
The Alexander Turnbull Museum, New Zealand. Includes images from Sir Ernest Shackelton's (later of the Archangel/Murmansk Expeditions) 1914-1916 Antarctic Voyage.
New Zealand and the Great War. Peter Hoar's contribution to mark New Zealand's participation in the war, including memorial sites, chronology and bibliography.
Northern Ireland and the Republic of Ireland
The Northern Ireland and the Great War page includes the account of the 36th (Ulster) Division and the Battle of the Somme.
The Somme Heritage Centre, County Down, Northern Ireland.
Russia
Images of Revolutionary Russia, along with online resources: The Hoover Institution on War, Revolution and Peace, Stanford, California (Primarily descriptions of Hoover's document collections).
Scotland
Scots at War (Scotland)
War in a Scottish Village
South Africa
The South African War Museum.
The War Museum of the Boer Republics and Women's Memorial (South Africa).
Slovenia
Kobarid's Museum, Slovenia.
Turkey/Ottoman Empire
One of the few Anatolian/Turkish/Armenian resources on the Web, Adventuring with Anatolia College covers the period 1910 'til 1921.
United States
Closing In On a Killer - Spanish Influenza: The National Museum of Health and Medicine's virtual exhibit on the 1918 influenza pandemic and efforts by Armed Forces Institute of Pathology (AFIP) pathologist Dr. Jeffrey Taubenberger to recreate the genetic structure of the 1918 influenza virus.
History of the US 27th Infantry Battalion, including material concerning the Russian Intervention and Admiral Kolchak, 1918-1920.
The American Battlefields Monument Commission. Assistance in locating battlefields, gravesites.
The Federal Research Division POW/MIA Database, offered by the United States Library of Congress.
USThe First Division Museum at Cantigny, Illinois, US.
Life at Camp Funston: Reflections of Army Sergeant Charles L. Johnston, USA. Co-respondence, photographs, dealing with Camp Funston (Ft. Riley), Kansas, 1918.
USA - The Marcus Garvey and Universal Negro Improvement Association Papers Project. Online resource and access.
The Great War Society, Stanford, California. USA.
Full-text Listings of Medal of Honor Citations, USA.
German and Austro-Hungarian Internment during World War One in the United States. A wonderful collection of links to other similar sites, including a Chronology of Events, German-Americans in the United States during WWI.
The Nation's Forum: Early Sound Recordings of America's Leaders, 1918-1920 (USA).
Images of World War I, from the collection of Dr. Jere Jackson.
Legends and Heroes of World War I
Liberty Memorial Museum - the only US museum devoted entirely to the Great War. Some material online, primarily a fundraising apparatus.
The Lost Poets of the Great War (World War I; by Harry Rusche).
New York Public Library Military History Home Page (US).
Polar Bear Expedition Digital Collections, University of Michigan, Bentley Historical Library. Primarily an extensive finding aid and reference for the Michigan and US records of troops participating in the Archangelsk Intervention in North Russia.
The Polar Bear Memorial Association, Detroit (USA) - dedicated to "...honoring and maintaining the memory of the 339th Infantry Regiment, the 1st Battalion of the 310th Engineers, the 337th Ambulance Co. and the 337th Field Hospital of the U.S. Army's 85th Division . These men, known as "Detroit's Own" and "Polar Bears", fought the Bolshevik enemy and the elements as part of the American North Russian Expeditionary Force in 1918-1919."
Stars and Stripes - the Complete Great War editions, from America's Memory, Library of Congress
Trenches on the Web (Graphic Images of Trench Warfare-- World War I).
The Harry S Truman Library, (USA) with a wide variety of representative documents and photos concerning the President's experiences is now fully online (1998).
The US National Cryptologic Museum: Includes images of the 'Verdun Intercept Site Exhibit' and of the 'Black Chamber.' (USA)
The US Naval Reserve force at Porto Corsini, Italy; August - December 1918
The History Department, US Military Academy, West Point, World War I Maps are now online.
Wartime Propaganda - World War I (USA).
The local 'Battery Corporal Willis S. Cole Military Museum' of Kirkland, Washington, USA, dealing with both the exploits of Corporal Cole and aircraft history of the Great War.
The Woodrow Wilson House, presented by the US National Trust.
World War I History Commission Questionnaires of the State of Virginia, USA. The surveys of World War I veterans in Virginia, a fully-searchable database of over 14,900 records, one for each questionnaire respondent, accessible by name, city/county, and race. Each record is also linked to digitized images of each page of the questionnaires, as well as any accompanying material such as photographs and additional pages submitted by the respondents.
Virtual Tour of the Western Front -- World War I.
The Great European and World War specializing in graphics that show formations and orders of battle.
World War I Images.
Miscellaneous Sites
A commercial site, but one offering most interesting access to the songs of the Great War, Old Time Victrola Music, including sheet music, 'Tipperary', 'My Buddy' and the like.
A variety of materiel sites, including the The World War I Modelling Page; along with those concentrating on: Dreadnoughts, Battleships, and the Old Rhinebeck Aerodrome
Air Warfare
Fighter Pilot 'Ace' List;
FCG, the Planes and Pilots of the Great War, including such subjects as The Immelman Turn, The Turkish Air Force, analysis of Russian flying and others.

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