Battlefield sites

 

Somme

Aerial view of the Battlefield (1): The Somme

Bois de Wallieux, Soyécourt

Bullecourt

Point 110, Fricourt

Mametz, 'Death Valley'

Somewhere on the Somme

The Ancre at Hamel

Preserved Trenches: Beaumont - Hamel

Pozieres

Le Hamel

 

Ypres

Bremen Redoubt, Zonnebeke

Lettenberg Bunker Complex (Kemmel)

Nieuport (Nieuwpoort) underground works.
By Kristof Jacobs

Behind the Battlefield: Menen, chronicle of a town at war.
By Maurice Debusschere

Aerial view of the Battlefield (2): The Salient

Essex Farm, Ypres

Boesinghe

Preserved Trenches: Trench of Death ('Dodengang', 'Boyau de la Mort')

Preserved Trenches: Frontline Hooge

Preserved Trenches: Hill 62, Sanctuary Wood

 

Cambrai

Tank at Flesquières: Excavating Tank D.51 'Deborah'

Preserved Trenches: The BBC Trench

 

Arras

Preserved Trenches: Vimy Ridge

First Battle of the Scarpe (Arras):
21st Brigade (30th Division) in the First battle of the Scarpe
by John Hurst

 

Chemin des Dames

Chemin des Dames - a Travel Guide

 

Verdun

Butte de Vauquois

Fort de Troyon

Preserved Trenches: Bois d'Ailly: Tranchée de la Soif (Trench of Thirst)

Preserved Trenches: Butte de Vauquois

 

Vosges / Alsace

The Great War in the Vosges and Alsace: A Chronology.
By Eric Mansuy

The Eastern part of the Western Front: The Vosges and Alsace:
A travel Guide - part 1
Senones Necropole Nationale, Saint-Dié (Les Tiges) Necropole Nationale, Le Linge, 
Tête des Faux, Cernay, Hartmannswillerkopf , Grand Ballon, Musée des Amis de Thann, 
Ballon d'Alsace, Musée Serret, Belfort, Jonchery, Pfetterhouse, Grand Canon (Zillisheim)

The Eastern part of the Western Front: The Vosges and Alsace:
A travel Guide - part 2

Sentier du Bunkers (Burnhaupt-le-Bas), Col. St. Marie, Grandfontaine-le-Donon, Le Petit Donon, Artillery positions l’Etoile, La Corbeille
updated 2008

The Eastern part of the Western Front: The Vosges and Alsace:
A travel Guide - part 3

Pain du Sucre, Pierre Piquée, Le Coquin

Le Linge: Chronology of the Combats.
By Eric Mansuy

Tête des Faux (Buchenkopf), Vosges, France.
By Vincent Bullière,  translated by Eric Mansuy.

Hartmannswillerkopf: Chronology of the Combats

Hot spots on the Swiss border (1914-1918) Where WW1-front lines reached Switzerland. 
By Oswald Schwitter

 

Italy

Italy and the Great War: A travel Guide (part 1).
Stelvio pass, Croce Monte Scale, Forte Venini, Mt. San Mateo, Tonale Pass
Forte Strino, Museo Storico delle Truppe Alpine, Mausoleum of Cesare Battisti,
Caproni Air Museum, Museo della Guerra, Asiago plateau, Mt. Kaberlaba,
Museum 'Collezione Giancarlo Rovini', Mt. Zovetto, Forte Interrotto, Mt. Pasubio,
Mt. Marmolada, Pordoi Pass, Mt. Lagazoui, Valparola Pass, Pocol Sacari Militari,
Mt. Piano, Mauthen Museum 1915-18, Mt. Pal Piccolo, Mt. San Michele,
Sacrari Militari Redipuglia, Sacrari Militari di Montello, Giavera British Cemetery.

Italy and the Great War: A travel Guide (part 2).
Drei Zinnen, Mt. Piano (again), Sperrwerk Tre Sassi, Edelweißstellung,
 Sacrario Militaire di S. Candido (Innichen), Rotwand.

Italy and the Great War: A travel Guide (part 3).
Kaiserjäger Museum Innsbruck,  Mt. Grappa, Mt. Tomba, Deutscher Soldatenfriedhof Feltre
Deutscher Soldatenfriedhof Quero, French Memorial / Ossuary of Pederobba,
Lavarone, Austro-Hungarian Command Center, Slaghenauf Soldatenfriedhof, 
Werk Gschwent, Col di Lana (Blood Mountain).

The north-western Austro-Italian Alpine front. A general overview.
By Francesco Davini.

Hot spots on the Swiss border (1914-1918) - Part 2: Alpine front lines at the Stilfserjoch / Stelvio Pass.
By Oswald Schwitter

 

Miscellaneous

"Plan H": the French plans for the invasion of Switzerland.
By Eric Mansuy

Battlefield Graffiti: The caves around Soissons

Gallipoli.
By Bob Brunson

The War Sketches of Fred A. Farrell: 51st (Highland) Division

 

Battlefield Archaeology

Battlefield Archaeology: Association Souvenir Bataille de Fromelles (ASBF), Fromelles, France

Battlefield Archaeology: "The Diggers"

Battlefield Archaeology: The "Durand Group"