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Archive Dot Org Website The following books are presented on Archive Dot Org and represent a growing resource of scanned texts in the public domain. A consortium of universities is scanning a wide range of older text-books including the following sample on the Great War. These texts can be...

*In MEMORy by Pierre Vandervelden This well-designed website of Commonwealth War Cemeteries, Communal Cemeteries & Churchyards in Belgium & France enables one to inspect these cemeteries and to access basic information regarding a large number of soldiers from the Commonwealth. The main feature...

Memorie des Homme - French Memorial Database French language data base has more than 1.3 million individual digital deceased during the Great War. Also 70 000 individual soldiers with military aerospace. French language. [CEF Study Group - Sept 2010]...

Irish War Memorials Project This web-site presents an inventory of war memorials in Ireland. It includes photographs of each memorial, the text of all inscriptions, and details of the site of the memorial. A database of all of those named allows a search for individual persons, with links to the...

World War 1 Photographic Collection - UBC In the 1930s, the UBC Library received from the British Consulate in Seattle a set of approximately 6,000 photographic prints depicting multi-faceted views of World War I. In 2006, the UBC Library digitized approximately 1,000 images from its collection...

Trench Raiding - Wikipedia Website Trench raiding was a feature of trench warfare which developed during World War I. It was the practice of making small scale surprise attacks on enemy position. Raids were made by both sides in the conflict and always took place at night for reasons of stealth...

Poems of the Great War “The Great War 1914-1918 began as a resource for courses in World War I poetry, a topic now taught in a number of universities. The site has since grown to be of interest to anyone studying World War I. Several years ago Woodruff Library of Emory University purchased...

Australian War Memorial The website provides sections on Australian Military History, First World War Official Histories, Australian Military Units and Military Organizational and Structure. [CEF Study Group] http://www.awm.gov.au/atwar/index.htm ANZAC This website features the Australian and...

Stevenage at War This website is dedicated to the memory the men and women of Stevenage, Aston, Benington and Walkern [UK] who served and lost their lives in both world wars. The website features the alphabetical listing of soldiers killed in the Great War and the Second World War. These name...

Regional and Regimental Affiliations of the Canadian Expeditionary Force The following tables from www.canadiansoldiers.com present a clear outline of the many military units which formed the Canadian Corps during the Great War. Readers not familiar with the Canadian Corps and its sub-units...

A Dictionary of Great War Slang by Paul Hinckley The argot of the British soldier seems to be largely derived from a legacy of Indian and Arabic dialect words picked up and passed on from the previous campaigns in India and Egypt, coupled with the Tommies' rather awkward pronunciation of some of...

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...

Researching a German Soldier This website provides several avenues for researching a German soldier from the Great War. With the loss of many records from the Second World War - there are extra challenges for the researcher. There are several direct and indirect recommendations including the use...

Pickelhaube Guide - Kaiser's Bunker Website This sub-set of the larger Kaiser's Bunker website provides information and images related to the Germanic form of dress helmet known as the Pickelhaube. Information relates to general characteristics of rank, helmet classifications, the anatomy of the...

Artillery in the First World War This well done website provides background on field, heavy, super heavy, trench, fortress, self-propelled and air and navy artillery. In addition, information is provided on the roles and effects of artillery, some good schematics of actions, reference texts and...

The Royal Canadian Regiment and the First World War The Royal Canadian Regiment (The RCR) is Canada's senior Regular Force Infantry Regiment. Formed in 1883, it has garrisoned communities from Halifax to Victoria and has served in virtually every military campaign undertaken by the country...

Talbot House On the 11th December, 1915 Chaplain Philip Clayton opened a "soldiers' house". The large home of the Coevoet family in Poperinge . Belgium was transformed into "Every Man's Club", where all soldiers were welcome, regardless of rank - it was called Talbot House. [CEF Study Group –...

Shot At Dawn - Execution of Soldiers in the Great War A comprehensive website with details on many soldiers who were executed for various offenses during the Great War, detailed articles, biographies, a list of Commonwealth soldiers executed, discussions on pardon of some officers and an...

The Russo-Japanese War Research Society The Russo-Japanese War Research Society is an on-line study group dedicated to the research and documentation of the Russo-Japanese War 1904-05. Their goal is the quality presentation of articles and archives relating to the war as well as the pre and...

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...