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Canadian Courts-Martial of the First World War This is a database which enables one to search Canadian courts-martials for names, rank, unit offense number(s) and date of event. Military offenses were defined in the British Army Act. These offenses, their corresponding punishments and...

Passion & Compassion 1914-1918 - Feeling the Great War This English-French website proposes to bring forward some of passion and compassion of the Great War through the use of quotations, images, background on battle sites, references to other links, recommended readings and other website links...

Official History of the Canadian Army in the First World War Canadian Expeditionary Force, 1914-1919 Colonel G. W. L. Nicholson, C.D., Army Historical Section This is the classic reference text [the Bible] for any student of the Canadian Expeditionary Force during the Great War. The original...

German Reich: Kaiserreich (1871-1918) - German Language Archives This German language website provides access to the Federal Archives for civilian and military bodies of the North German Confederation and the German Kaiserreich. The archives are incomplete, primarily due to the impact of war...

Toronto Star - Blog: Map of the Week: Riverdale's First World War dead (November 2009) The Toronto Star is Canada's largest daily newspaper, with the largest readership in the country. Established 1892 with Joseph E. Atkinson, Publisher, 1899-1948. This blog site entry from November 2009 maps...

The Queen's Own Cameron Highlanders of Canada This wiki website outlines the background and general history of the Highland battalions in the Canadian Expeditionary Force in the Great War - namely the 16th (Canadian Scottish) Battalion, 27th (City of Winnipeg) Battalion, 43rd (Cameron...

Australian Military Units - First World War, 1914-1918 A simple organized website element of the Australian War Memorial website, which provides a glossary, battle honours per unit, a summary of casualties, commanding officers within each unit, decorations within the unit and sometimes...

Images Canada Images Canada provides central search access to the thousands of images held on the websites of participating Canadian cultural institutions. Through Images Canada, you can find images of the Canadian events, people, places and things that make up our collective heritage. You can...

The War Times Journal The War Times Journal is an on-line magazine covering all periods of military history and military science. Their goal is the quality presentation of articles and archives relating to wars and armed conflict, with an emphasis on eyewitness accounts and personal...

The Ships List This very comprehensive website contains a great deal of information on ship fleets and individual ships. It is often possible to obtain information on Great War ships used for troop transport including details on building, ownership, fate or sale to new owner, subsequent owners...

Royal Bank of Canada - Great War Honour Roll A total of 1,495 Royal Bank staff members enlisted for active service. Of these, 186 were killed in action or died in hospital and five were missing in action. After the war, 786 employees were reinstated, while 516 elected not to return to the bank...

German Historical Museum - The First World War 1914-1918: Reality and Remembrance A museum tour of the Great War from the German perspective. Commentary is in both German and English. [CEF Study Group] http://www.dhm.de/ausstellungen/der-erste-weltkrieg/rundgang.htm

A Survey of German Tactics 1918 An online historic manual providing a survey of German tactics in 1918. The manual is divided into five sections: a survey of 1918 tactics, infantry, artillery, aviation and some Ludendorff dicta. The original source of this document needs to be determined. [All...

Art of the First World War - An Exhibition of 100 International Painters From the 1914-18 war to the commemoration of the 80th anniversary of the Armistice of 11th November 1918, this exhibition of 110 paintings brought together by the major history museums of Europe. The 54 Great War artists...

Weapons Online - Richard Fisher This small and specialized discussion forum has several topic areas related to the Vickers Machine Gun and its association with the Great War. Currently there are 500 members with about 6600 postings. This forum is associated with the Vickers Machine Gun website...

*Canadian Expeditionary Force Study Group - Discussion Forum The Canadian Expeditionary Force (CEF) and all aspects of its involvement in the Great War is the focus of this discussion forum - the group formed in October 2004 around the "Canadian Pals" from the Great War Forum. Membership is...

*87th CEF Overseas Battalion Photographic Record and Souvenir of the Canadian Grenadier Guards Overseas Battalion "Eighty Seventh" (1916). This document is a rare photographic and text record of the 87th Infantry Battalion of the Canadian Expeditionary Force, as it was organized in 1916...

Canadian VC Recipients - Canada Veteran Affairs [/b]All 94 Canadian winners of the VC award winners from all military actions including the Great War. The site contains full citations to these awards, their Attestation Papers, some medical forms are provided and some recipients have...

The Diary of Alvin York by Alvin C. York The Diary of Sgt. York. [Mar 2006 - CEF Study Group] http://acacia.pair.com/Acacia.Vignettes/The.Diary.of.Alvin.York.html#Introduction

* Pte. Richard William Mercer - 1st Canadian Motor Machine Gun Brigade The website publishes the personal letters by an ordinary Canadian soldier from 1915 to 1919. The site makes extensive use of footnotes to explain the background and context of the comments of a young private in the Borden...