This ring is for sites which feature World War One content. Military, Aviation and Naval sites are welcome to join us. Sites which deal with the wider social and historical significance of the so-called 'War To End All Wars' are also invited to take part.
This letter was published in the Eastbourne Gazette early in October 1914. Captain Arthur Habgood conveys the terrifying circumstances of evacuating the wounded. During the war he gained the rank of Lieutenant-Colonel in the service of the Royal Army Medical Corps (Special Reserve). Collecting the wounded at night R.A.M.C . At work under shell-fire...
This moving article comes from the book On the King's Service Inward Glimpses of Men at Arms by Innes Logan. Innes Logan was Chaplin to the Forces from September 1914 to May 1916. Here he reflects the words of a famous hymn as it drifts on a gentle wind that carried with it the noise of a heavy gun firing a round. âOne November evening I was pick...
This excellent article was first published in The War Illustrated and is on the brilliant site A Great War in a Different Light. Published in December 1918 it lays out for all to read the territorial ambitions of the Kaiser. If Germany Had Won I saw a leaflet the other day which the German Bolshevists, known as the Spartacus group, had issued. (Sp...
Sunday June 28th, 1914 was a turning point in European history, for on that day Archduke Franz Ferdinand, heir to the Austrian throne, and his wife, were assassinated in the Serbian town of Sarajevo. The repercussions of this event reverberated throughout Europe. Austriaâs reply was sent to Serbia on Saturday 23rd July. It was an ultimatum, and ...
Can someone tell me what their assigments were?
My dad was sent to France and was in the hospital near Brest, France, but I do not know anything further.
An international collaborative project dedicated to passengers and crew of the RMS Lusitania, providing passenger and crew manifests from the ship's last voyage.
Somes Island, in Wellington Harbour, New Zealand, (now known as Matiu/Somes Island, ackowledging its Maori heritage) served as an internment camp for 'enemy alien' prisoners (mostly German) in both world wars. This website focuses on WWI, but also looks at the rest of the island's history as a quarantine station for both animals and people.
Harry's WW1 is dedicated to my Grandfather Harry Williams, who wrote a book he called "Trenches and Trees" about his exploits in WWI. Part of the book is reproduced on this site. A companion item "The Great War" outlines the main conflicts on the Western Front, some of which he was involved in.
Source of information, books details & dvd relating to the 1st and 2nd world wars. Battlefield tour details for the somme, the ypres salient and other links. D-Day 60th Anniversary. Pictures and sites for historians, amateur historians and tourist links. A personal account of significant sites of military interest and of memorials visited. War & Peace Show photos. Visitors gallery.
Dedicated to the events and consequences of World War One.We put some emphasis on unorthodox and thought-provoking points of view. We are averse to historicism and military fetishism.
And we show people rather than strategic plans or statistics.
To this end this website features one of the most extensive and explicit WW-1 photo collections on the Internet.
A detailed site relating the experiences of an artillery signaller in the Great War in both Flanders and Italy 1917-1918. Includes casualty details and technical signalling infomation.
