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The Fokker D.VII File This website provides a good overview of this Great War aircraft which was specifically mentioned in the Versailles Treaty. It includes history, production numbers, specifications, photographs, list of surviving aircraft and bibliographic information. [CEF Study Group –...

Old Rhinebeck Aerodrome This website outlines the collection of the Old Rhinebeck Aerodrome in New York State. The collection includes over sixty aircraft including a large number of Great War aircraft. [CEF Study Group – Updated Aug 2010] http://www.oldrhinebeck.org/

Fokker Dr1.com This site is dedicated to the documentation of the pictorial history of the 320 Fokker Dr.I single-seat, tri-plane aircraft built during World War I and the fighter pilot Manfred Von Richthofen. The intent of the webmaster is to research and identify all 320 Fokker Dr1 planes...

The Red Fighter Pilot by Manfred Von Richthofen This on-line edition of Manfred von Richthofen's 1917 book Der Rote Kampfflieger is based on the English language version originally translated by J. Ellis Barker and published in 1918 under the name The Red Battle Flyer. [CEF Study Group]...

List of World War I Aces - Wikipedia Website The Wikipedia site contains a listing of the Aces of the Great War with twenty (20) victories or more. Associated Wikipedia sites also present the list of lesser scoring aces. Links on several aces bring forward short biographies and additional...

*Jasta Boelcke - German Squadron of the Great War This is a very detailed and very high quality website is features and detail beyond what an abstract can outline. The pages of Jasta Boelcke are devoted to Hauptmann (Captain) Oswald Boelcke and his famous Jasta 2. It was Boelcke who realized...

Russian Eastern Front Photographic Website This website, mostly with Russian text but some English translations, provides some very unique photographs of the Eastern Front. I cannot recall viewing any of these photographs from any other source. [Recommendation by Fedelmar - GWF][CEF Study Group...

The New York Public Library - Digital The NYPL Digital Gallery provides access to over 415,000 images digitized from primary sources and printed rarities in the collections. This section includes a wide selection of German World War I photographic postcards. [CEF Study Group - Dec 2005]...

A Beautiful Death - Letters of a Young German Soldier in Flanders A most beautiful death.... the last letters of Hermann Koopmann, written from Flanders. Hermann Koopmann was born in Oldenburg on May 7th 1893, the son of a railway administrative official. Robert Tremblay has provided the text...

Caring for Your Wartime Memorabilia This Australian guide to looking after your wartime memorabilia items is just that - a guide. It cannot hope to cover every possible storage or display situation or every memorabilia item. If you have a question about specific items or conditions, contact the...

International Red Cross [ICRC] and the First World War On 12 October 1914 the ICRC began setting up a system for processing prisoner of war information. An index card for each prisoner was classified by nationality, in files which also contained requests for information. As soon as a piece of...

Association for World War Archaeology - Flanders Association for World War Archaeology or “Actiegroep voor Wereldoorlogarcheologie” was established by a group of archaeologists who have recently been dealing intensively with World War archaeological heritage in Western Flanders. Following the...

The Great War Website This site has been created by Joanna Legg (neé Parker) and Graham Parker and aims to provide an overview of battlefields on The Western Front and the sites of educational interest for the visitor today. The location of museums, sites of interest, cemeteries and memorials...

The Heritage of the Great War The website is based in The Netherlands and features material in English and Dutch. It provides an interesting and different perspective on the Great War. [CEF Study Group – Nov 2006 - Updated] http://www.greatwar.nl/

Great War Discussion Forums - Part 7 Note: CEF Study Group member websites denoted with asterisk " * " - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - *Canadian Expeditionary Force Study Group - Discussion Forum The...

World War One In The News This website is unique in that it trawls the world’s newspapers and magazines for articles and news items on WW1 and brings them all together on one site. All the articles are linked together and accessed via groupings so one article may appear under more than one...

Clausewitz Home Page The Prussian military thinker Carl von Clausewitz is widely acknowledged as one of the most important of the major strategic theorists. Even though he's been dead for over a century-and-a-half, he remains the most frequently cited, the most controversial, and in many...

The English Camp / Engelse Kamp – Special Internment Camp in Holland On 11th October 1914, 1,500 men of the First Royal Naval Brigade, upon arrival in Holland from the retreat from Belgium, were interned (in accordance with International Law), in Groningen, a city in northern Holland. Behind the...

Picklehaubes.com Forum The Picklehaubes.com Forum provides a German perspective of the Great War and begins to provide both a balance and another source of information on the Great War. The forum has approximately 650 members and about 30,000 postings. The common themes include the study and...

Hello Everyone 10 September 2010 Some of you will know me as "Borden Battery" on some of the other Great War discussion forums and as one of the moderators on the CEF Study Group. Over the next little while I will be posting some samples of the latest edition of the CEF Study Group List of...