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*Canadian Expeditionary Force Tunic Patterns 1903 to 1919 [The Kaiser Bunker] An interesting site with a good representation of military tunics and formation patches from the Canadian Expeditionary Force. [CEF Study Group] http://www.kaisersbunker.com/ceftp/ceftp.htm NOTE: Of course, the...

Bulgarian Artillery: 1878 - 1918 The aim of this site is to provide information to the English-speaking community about the history of the Bulgarian artillery, and in general of the Bulgarian Army, till the end of the First World War, collecting and translating information from Western and...

WWI Eastern Front Foto - Nachlass eines Soldaten This unique website presents the private photographs of both a German officer and German military archive photographs of the Eastern Front during the Great War. Most would appear to be unpublished and without notation. The images are unfamiliar...

Battles - The Eastern Front [Firstworldwar.com] This is a sub-set of the FIRSTWORLDWAR.COM [Michael Duffy site] and includes the battles of Battles of Stalluponen, Gumbinnen, Tannenberg, First Battle of the Masurian Lakes, Battle of Bolimov, Second Battle of the Masurian Lakes, Battle of Lake...

Germany's High Sea Fleet in the World War This on-line edition of Admiral Reinhard Scheer's World War One memoirs is based directly on the original, published in 1920. Admiral Scheer, who assumed command of the entire German High Seas Fleet in 1916, was in favor of both an aggressive surface...

The Battle of Jutland - 31st May 1916 The Battle of Jutland took place between the British Grand Fleet and the German High Seas Fleet on the 31st May 1916 in the North Sea, off the mainland of Denmark. Background includes the Battle, Admirals, a Comparison of the Fleets, the Battle Area...

U-Boat This primary website contains detailed information on the German U-Boat from both the Great War and the Second World War. The site also contains a discussion forum and a good source of referenced material and articles. While the site is primarily Second World War, there is a growing...

Future of War by Jean de Bloch Ivan Stanislavovic Bloch (1836 - 1902) (aka Johann von Bloch, Jean de Bloch, Ivan Bliokh) was a Polish banker who published a six volume work, La Guerre Future. These files [in several separate scanned files] are free to the public, but republication should...

The Versailles Treaty, June 28, 1919 The complete text of the Versailles Treaty [440 Articles], including attached maps, suggested readings and some photographs from the University of San Diego. [CEF Study Group – Updated October 2008]...

Formal U.S. Declaration of War with Germany, 6 April 1917 U.S. President Woodrow Wilson from the United States outlined the case for declaring war upon Germany in a speech to the joint houses of Congress on 2 April 1917. The text below is the formal declaration of war which followed four days...

Treaty of Alliance Between Germany and Turkey 2 August, 1914 This short website contains the text of the secret treaty between Germany and the Ottoman Empire. [The Avalon Project Yale Law School][CEF Study Group – Updated Aug 2010]...

Conditions of an Armistice with Germany Signed on the 11th day of November 1918, at 5 o'clock A.M. (French time). [From: Armistice 1918, Harry Rudin, Yale University Press, 1944, pp. 426-432, reprinted, Archon, 1967. NB: The Section titled 'Financial Clauses' found between 'D - General Clauses,'...

Brigham Young University - Documents of the Great War British Documents on the Origins of the War, 1898-1914,Vol. XI: The Outbreak of War: Foreign Office Documents June 28th-August 4th, 1914, Edited by G.P. Gooch, D.Litt. and Harold Temperley, Litt.D.Vol. XI. Printed and Published by His...

The German Declaration of War on Russia The Imperial German Government declaration of war on the Government of His Majesty the Emperor of All the Russia's as presented by Presented by the German Ambassador to St. Petersburg on1 August, 1914 (July 19th Russian calendar). Web Source...

FirstWorldWar.com - Primary Document Site This website contains a collection of primary documents that document the course of the war via source; often official government material. Included here are archive documents signed in the late 1830s which bore relevance to the outbreak of war some 75...

The Great War Website - Formation of the Volksbund With the end of the First World War the upkeep of German military cemeteries in France and Belgium came to an abrupt end. Organizations attached to the German army which had looked after the graves during the war were disbanded. The only...

Today is Free - 360 Panoramic Images of Cemeteries This unique website provides a 360 degree panoramic view of a select number of cemeteries in Belgium, France, Italy and Germany. [Recommendation by Alain Dubois] [CEF Study Group - Oct 2008] http://www.todayisfree.com/

WW1Cemeteries.com This website site currently contains over 1250 different images of the First World War Cemeteries of France and Belgium, as well as numerous other images of Military cemeteries and memorials from around the world. All of these cemeteries have been personally visited and...

The 1918 Influenza Pandemic The influenza pandemic of 1918-1919 killed more people than the Great War, known today as World War I (WWI), at somewhere between 20 and 40 million people. It has been cited as the most devastating epidemic in recorded world history. More people died of influenza in a...

The Great War Flying Museum – Brampton, Canada Formed in 1970 this all-volunteer group is dedicated to recreating the sights, sounds and feel of World War One combat aircraft. They build, maintain and fly seven World War One replica fighter aircraft. These include the following: S.E.5a, Fokker...