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GENERAL WW1 SITES
Great
War Discussion Forum - excellent place to discuss
the subject. Recommended.
The
Western Front Association
Hell
Fire Corner
The
British Army In The Great War - excellent WW1
resource site by Chris Baker. Recommended.
Old
Contemptible
Iron
Harvest - Casualty family histories, books maps and
battlefield information.
The
Regimental War Path - History of Regiments/Divisions
Kitchener's
Men - A 1914-18 Resource Site
The
Diggers - Belgian WW1 Archaeology Group
First
World War.com - A multimedia history of World War
One.
Counter
- Attack - WW1 war Poets
An
Unfortunate Region - Dutch WW1 site [in English]
The
"Archaeology" of the Western Front 1914-1918
- Excellent archaeology site by Nils Fabiansson.
Henry
Williamson Society - key author who served in WW1
and wrote numerous books and novels.
Pipers
Memorial, Longueval - Memorial commemorating Pipers
who fought in WW1.
Picardie
14-18 - Excellent new French site dedicated to the
Somme battlefields.
Hello
Tommy - new site with much useful information on
visiting the battlefields.
New
Zealand in the Great War - lots of interesting
material on the NZ Division.
Ypres
WW1 pages - excellent site by Simon Farr on the
battlefields in Flanders.
Salonika
Campaign Society - organisation dedicated to the
Salonika campaign.
Military
Fortifications of the World - resource site for
military fortifications with much WW1 material.
Silent
Witnesses - A guide to the First World War
cemeteries and memorials on the Western Front.
Ypres
1914-1918 - site devoted to the battlefields in
Flanders.
The
Diggers' War - excellent new site describing the
Australian contribution to the war on the Western Front.
Recommended.
The
Centre for First World War Studies, Birmingham
University - new study centre which welcomes
membership. Recommended.
Remembering
The Great War: The Royal Dublin Fusiliers Association
- nice history site for the RDF.
The
Great War in Flanders Fields - excellent website
covering the battlefields in Flanders. Recommended.
Cecil Slack and
the Great War - site based around the letters of
Cecil Slack, 10th East Yorks.
War
Graves Photos - service offering photos of WW1 war
graves, memorials and cemeteries.
World
War 1: 1914-1918 - Dutch site in English, with good
links.
Trench
Maps - excellent site reviewing the Trench Map CD
Rom and suggesting other possibilities.
Signallers
in the Great War - information on Signals work and
equipment.
Cross
and Cockade - Society for those interested in the
war in the air.
Your
Loving Brother Albert - the letters of Albert
French, killed at Ypres aged 16. Recommended.
The
Last Post Committee - official website for the
committee which organises the Last Post at the Menin
Gate. Recommended.
ARHAM
Website - French Association devoted to the
battlefields between Armentieres and Loos.
Recommended.
Salient
Points - new
WW1/WW2 website with battlefield information and books.
Front
Line London - new WW1/WW2 website dedicated to
London's military history by Clive Harris.
World
War One: Carte de Route - excellent site with guides
to the battlefields.
Battle
of Hamel - excellent site about one part of the 1918
Somme battlefields.
Wanted
Death Plaques - site for those wishing to trace WW1
memorial plaques and medals.
World
War One Battlefields - new website dedicated to WW1
battlefields.
Somme
Battlefields - new and excellent site on the Somme
by the local authorities. Recommended.
The
Great War -
excellent site dedicated to WW1 battlefields with much
info on 2nd Ypres. Recommended.
Ploegsteert
Memorial - site dedicated to the memorial in
Belgium.
WW1
Cemeteries - useful site with details of all CWGC
cemeteries in Belgium and France.
Paths
of Glory - new website with a heavy leaning to
trench maps. Recommended.
Pro
Patria Mori: Gommecourt 1st July 1916 - excellent
new site about the 56th (London) Division attack on the
Somme.
Cambrai
Battlefields Today - excellent site covering this
part of the battlefields.
Great
War Digital - Revolutionary new Linesman Trench Map
- GPS system.
Friends
of the Lincoln Tank
World
War Pictures: Posters, Photos, Poets & Artists.
Pierre's
Western Front: excellent coverage of WW1
battlefields.
WAR
MEMORIALS
Cullompton
War Memorial Project Website
Highland Archives - Caithness Roll of Honour 1914 -
1919 (Army)
'Doomed
Youth' - The War Dead of the Woolwich Polytechnic
1914 - 1919
Sittingbourne
Remembers
The
Thin Blue Line - Sussex and Surrey police officers
who fell in WW1.
Cambridgeshire
War Memorials & Rolls of Honour
The
Northallerton Memorials Project
Lincolnshire
Village Memorials
Great
War Churches - project to record war memorials in UK
churches (mainly Sussex/Kent).
New
Zealand Armed Forces Memorial Project
- to record NZ memorials and cemeteries.
Lancing
War Memorial - roll of honour of the men from this
Sussex town.
South
African War Graves Project - to record South African
war graves, memorials and cemeteries from WW1 onwards.
Tadcaster
War Memorials - excellent site listing details of
war memorials in the Tadcaster area.
Isle
of Wight War Memorials - good coverage with many
photos.
Buckinghamshire
Remembers - good coverage of war memorials.
Cravens
Part in the Great War - excellent site with much
information.
Kent
Fallen - superb resource site with details of Kent
War Memorials. Highly recommended! new
website!
RESEARCH/MUSEUM
SITES
Commonwealth
War Graves Commission
Imperial
War Museum
The
National Archives (formerly Public Records Office)
Australian
War Memorial
National
Archives of Australia - AIF Service Records.
National
Archives of Canada - WW1 records on-line.
The
Bovington Tank Museum
Dictionary
of New Zealand Biography
Victoria
Cross Reference - details of all VC winners
including WW1. Recommended.
London
Gazette - trace WW1 honours & awards.
Hooge
Crater - excellent museum at Ypres.
Military
Genealogy - new site making Soldiers Died In The
Great War available on-line.
FRENCH
SECTOR
Aisne:
The Chemin des Dames
Verdun
Project - German site - By Marcus Massing
Verdun
- Swedish site
Butte
de Vauquois
Verdun
1916
Ossuary
- Douaumont
Memorial
Museum - Fleury (Verdun)
The
Lost Villages of Verdun
History
of the village of SOUAIN
The
Battle of Verdun - new Dutch site (in English).
Historique
de Regiments - histories of French Regiments in WW1.
French
War Dead - you can now trace WW1 French war dead
on-line.
CANADIAN
RELATED SITES
Canadian
War Museum - Canadian equivalent of IWM. Much
on-line information.
Veterans
Affairs Canada
The
Canadian Great War Homepage
The
Canadian Books Of Remembrance
54th
(Kootenay) Battalion Canadian Infantry
54th
Battalion Honours & Awards -
85th
Battalion Canadian Infantry
For
King And Empire - excellent CEF site by author Norm
Christie.
28th
Bn Canadian Infantry - excellent battalion history
site by Robert Lindsay.
Vimy
Ridge: Canadian Victory - new site looking at the
famous attack on Vimy Ridge.
CEF
Study Group - news site and Forum for those
interested in the CEF. Highly recommended.
REGIMENTS
- UNITS
Royal
Sussex Regiment Forum
- mainly deals with 11/12/13th (South Downs) Battalions.
The
Machine Gun Corps - Old Comrades Association
Regimental
Museum of the Liverpool Scottish
16th
(Irish) Division
Armed
Forces in Kent - The Buffs, Royal West Kents, Kent
Cyclists.
Tyneside
Scottish & Irish - Northumberland Fusiliers
17th
Welsh Regiment - War Diary 1916-18
1st
Middlesex Regiment
The
Black Watch Archive - not just about WW1, but good
coverage.
Unofficial
Lowther's Lambs Web Site - 11th, 12th & 13th
(South Downs) Bns Royal Sussex Regiment
7th
Bn Northumberland Fusiliers - excellent site with
much useful information.
1/5th
South Staffs - mainly about trench raid in March
1917.
7th
Wiltshire Regiment - history of the unit in
Salonika.
15th
West Yorks (Leeds Pals)
- excellent web site about the Pals by Mike Wood.
Royal
Berkshire Regiment - superb regimental museum
website with all WW1 war diaries on line. Recommended.
The
Accrington Pals - excellent site with much
information. Recommended.
Labour
Corps - site devoted to the history of the
Labour Corps in WW1.
241st
Brigade RFA - Royal Field Artillery study. URL
Updated
Glorious
Glosters - useful
site for researching the Gloucestershire Regiment.
Veterinary
Corps in WW1
8th
Battalion East Lancashire Regiment
Royal
Warwickshire Regiment in WW1
Royal
Dublin Fusiliers
21st
Division - excellent history of this British
division.
Royal
Naval Division - focus on the Somme 13th November
1916.
BOOKS
- PUBLISHERS/DEALERS : WW1
Tom
Morgan Military Books
Tommies
Guides - Ryan Gearing's useful book service. new
website!
Salient
Points - excellent guide to WW1/WW2 books plus
battlefield info and much more! Recommended.
Pen
& Sword Books Ltd
Naval
& Military Press
After
The Battle - Major publishers of 'Then & Now'
format
Osprey
- Superb selection of uniform and campaign books.
Books
by author Michael Stedman
CEF
Books - Books about Canada in WW1.
Tempus
Publishing
Orion
Publishing Group
The
Military History Bookshop
The
Great War Magazine - the magazine dedicated to the
Great War and to those who perished and to those who
survived.
Williams
Books - good source for books on Canadian Military
History.
The
Armourer Magazine - website of the excellent
bi-monthly militaria magazine.
Battlefront
Books - books for
the Military Enthusiast and Researcher.
Major
& Mrs Holts Battlefield Guide Books and Maps
WW1
EDUCATIONAL SITES
Skylark
Living History - by Andrew Spooner: 'Everyday life
in the trenches' and 'Changing technology on the
battlefield.
Fallen
Heroes - excellent WW1 school site by Tideway
Community School in Sussex.
BATTLEFIELD
ACCOMMODATION : YPRES/SOMME
The
Shell Hole - Hotel & Bookshop in Ypres.
Camalou
B&B - Ypres Salient (nr Dickebusche)
Varlet
Farm B&B - Ypres Salient (nr Passchendaele)
Essex
Villa - new English run B&B at Langemarck, near
Ypres.
Cherry
Blossom B&B - new British owned B&B at
Brandhoek, near Ypres.
Woodside
B&B - Belgium owned
B&B near Bruges and close to Flanders Fields.
Town
of Albert - the main town on the Somme with links to
local accommodation.
Le
Tommy Bar Pozieres
Bernafay
Wood B&B -
Somme (nr Montauban)
Les
Alouettes B&B Hardecourt - Somme (nr Guillemont)
B&B
Le Sars - Somme.
B&B
'La Martinierre' Courcelles au Bois - Somme.
Chavasse
Farm - Somme.
Chambres
d'Hote de Evelyne & Jacky - new French B&B
in Albert.
Dinnaken
House - house to rent in Flers (Somme).
MAPS
- MAP SUPPLIERS
Institute
Geographique Nationale: France - Producers of the
'Green' & 'Blue' series.
Institute
Geographique Nationale: Belgium
