CEF Study Group - Recommended Websites - 1 Sept 2010

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Borden Battery

New member
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 Recommended Great War Websites - emphasis will be on German websites which is more in keeping with the theme of your discussion forum. This discussion forum has been added to this list - it begins to add some balance by providing the opportunity for hearing of the conflict from the German perspective.

The September 2010 list is available and an expanded edition will come out in early November 2010.

Regards
Borden Battery
 
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 collection of Imperial German headgear but also covers other topics from the German perspective of the Great War. [Recommended by Chris Dale-German Colonial Uniforms Website] [CEF Study Group - Sept 2010]
http://www.pickelhaubes.com/forum/index.php
 
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 present-day Mesdagkliniek (the former city jail) a complete encampment was erected on the parade ground of the Rabenhauptkazerne (the local military barracks, situated opposite this prison). The British called themselves “HMS Timbertown”. A unique website on an obscure part of Great War history. [CEF Study Group – Nov 2008][Recommended by Guido Blokland]
http://www.wereldoorlog1418.nl/englishcamp/
 
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 respects the most modern. This website is intended as a central source for information, articles, and arguments about the man and his ideas. It is designed to accommodate anyone interested in understanding human strategies, including not only scholarly researchers on Clausewitz but also students and faculty in professional military education (PME) institutions, business schools, and other organizations concerned with human competition and conflict. [CEF Study Group - Updated Aug 2010]
http://www.clausewitz.com/index.htm
 
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 heading. This link will take you to the latest news page, all other categories can be accessed from there. Just click on new window under the extant of an article or news item to see the whole piece. [Recommendation by A Co, 27th Bn. ][CEF Study Group – Mar 2007]
http://firstworldwar.cloudworth.com/
 
Great War Discussion Forums - Part 7
Note: CEF Study Group member websites denoted with asterisk " * "
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*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 about 2250 members and some 56,000 postings. The site is linked to several member websites and includes Great War Project databases, The Matrix and a comprehensive list of recommended Great War websites. Emphasis is on the research and study of the Canadian Corps. [CEF Study Group - Updated Aug 2010]
http://www.cefresearch.com/phpBB2/index.php

The Great War Forum - The Long, Long Trail
The Great War Forum includes a 35,000+ member discussion forum with over 1 million postings . Emphasis is on the British Expeditionary Force with some material on the CEF and AIF discussed. A companion website contains information the Great War. The greatest resource from this site are the earlier postings with detailed documentation; be sure to use the “Search” button to access a wealth of information. A great deal of information has also been archived for this site. [CEF Study Group - Updated Aug 2010][Chris Baker Website]
http://1914-1918.invisionzone.com/forums/

*Somme Battlefields Forum [Somme 1916 - Somme 2006]
This discussion forum, which formed in August 2005, is moderated by Paul Reed and works in association with his new Somme website. The forum is specific to the Battle of the Somme in 1916 and/or any aspect of the Somme Anniversary in 2006 and may set the trend for other battle-specific discussion forums. As of July 2006 the site had some 220 members and 900 postings related to the Somme. [Paul Reed website] [CEF Study Group – May 2009 - Updated]
http://somme1916.6.forumer.com/index.php

*First World War Forum
About 3300 members and 290,000 postings. A Netherlands based discussion forum which is focused on all aspects of the Great War. It has a dedicated membership, mainly from The Netherlands and Flanders and a multitude of topics can be found ranging from all participating countries to a very large list of relevant books and web sites. The main language is Dutch, but there are many articles posted in English as well. [CEF Study Group –Updated Aug 2010]
http://www.forumeerstewereldoorlog.nl/index.php?sid=ef2d0643e1ec1717dee1aadce2278a70

*Forum Eerste Wereldoorlog [Mei 2006-05-18]
Dit Nederlands talige forum richt zich op alle aspecten betreffende de Eerste Wereldoorlog en kent een groot aantal leden, voornamelijk uit Nederland en Belgisch Vlaanderen. Alle aspecten van deze oorlog komen aan de orde en het forum kent een zeer uitgebreide lijst van relevante boeken en web sites. De voertaal is overwegend Nederlands, echter, er worden ook regelmatig artikelen in de Engelse taal geplaatst. Gezien het feit dat dit forum pas 15 maanden geleden opgericht is, kan men stellen dat het een onstuimige groei heeft doorgemaakt. Dit is des te opvallender, als men zich realiseert dat Nederland niet deelgenomen heeft aan de Eerste Wereldoorlog. [Editor – GrandsonMichael]
http://www.forumeerstewereldoorlog.nl/viewforum.php?f=29

*21sters - The 21st Battalion CEF Discussion Group
This discussion group facilitates specific exchanges associated with 21st Canadian Expeditionary Force Battalion and its men. The original 21st Battalion CEF was organized in Kingston Ontario during the Great War under Lt Col W.S. Hughes an incorporated men and officers of Eastern Ontario. It was also known as the Eastern Ontario Regiment. This special group was formed on 27 August 2004 and currently has 128 members. [CEF Study Group – Updated Aug 2010]
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/21sters

The Aerodrome - Forum
This website is very extensive in its documentation of the air war including cross-indexing of aircraft, aces, serial numbers of aircraft and pilot victories. Emphasis is visual and with visual statistics. The discussion forum includes postings with discussion threads tending to be on specific aircraft and airmen rather than historic discussion. Therefore, an excellent site for researching specific topics on Great War aerial combat. [Recommendation by Brett Payne / emma gee][CEF Study Group - Updated Aug 2010]
http://www.theaerodrome.com/forum/

ANZAC Research Discussion Board
This Great War Discussion Board [250 members and 3700 postings] is exclusive to the Australian and New Zealand Army Corps [ANZAC]. Most of the discussion feature Gallipoli and naturally items of specific interest to ANZAC readers - very limited response to CEF queries. The format of this board is different from the CEF Study Group and the Great War Forum boards, however, it is relatively easy to navigate. One feature which appears to be missing is a "search" feature for new message posts. There appears to be two membership levels with a payment granting access to more information. [CEF Study Group - Updated Aug 2010]
http://com2.runboard.com/banzacresearch

Austro-Hungarian Land Forces Discussion Forum
This unique forum is for the discussion of the Austro-Hungarian Land Forces for the 1848-1938 period and includes about 800 members Also see: German & Austrian Great War Websites - Part 24] for a related website. This site offers the unique opportunity to discuss the Great War from the Other side of the Line. [CEF Study Group – Updated Aug 2010]
http://p205.ezboard.com/faustrohungarianlandforcesdiscussionforumfrm0

Axis History Forum
This is an apolitical forum for discussions on the Axis nations, as well as the First and Second World Wars in general hosted by Marcus Wendel's Axis History Factbook in cooperation with Michael Miller's Axis Biographical Research, Christoph Awender's WW2 day by day, Dan Reinbold's Das Reich and Christian Ankerstjerne's Panzerworld. [CEF Study Group - April 2006]
http://forum.axishistory.com/viewforum.php?f=31&sid=44f39abc857bc8f2d1f5aa619ae6d796

Central Ontario Branch of the Western Front Association
COBWFA - The Central Ontario Branch of the Western Front Association researches the contribution of the Canadian military forces from Central Ontario and British Forces who served on the Western Front in France and Belgium during World War I. The website includes information on researching on-line, material from a soldier's diary, CBC interviews of veterans, an interesting “data mining” section, large scale maps and “Mapping with the BAYO” cds. This website serves as a focal point for the COBWFA and other sister organizations. [Recommendation by Floyd Low][CEF Study Group - August 2006]
http://www.cobwfa.ca/

Scottish War Memorials Discussion Forum
This new discussion forum is intended to showcase and discuss the many different War Memorials of Scotland. Formed on 14 December 2006, there are currently 830 members and 38,000postings. The forum is structured to direct postings to several identified Scottish memorials. Memorials include the Great War and subsequent wars. [Recommended by DerekR-CEFSG][CEF Study Group – Updated Aug 2010]
http://warmemscot.s4.bizhat.com/index.php?mforum=warmemscot

Passchendaele Remembered Website and Discussion Forum
This website and discussion forum is specific to the Battle of Passchendaele, fought close to the city of Ypres in Flanders, Belgium. The site was set up for the 90th Anniversary of Passchendaele and covers both the Battle of Messines and the Battle of Passchendaele. It includes guides to all the 1917 related cemeteries, memorials and battle sites, plus other information . The website also connects to a discussion forum on the battle. [Paul Reed website][CEF Study Group – Updated Aug 2010]
http://www.ypres-1917.com/ypres_forum.htm

Front Forum: The Great War 1914-18 - Western Front Association
The Front Forum was launched in September 2008 to provide an online venue for Western Front Association (WFA) members and the many visitors to our website to collaborate in furthering their interest in The Great War. Current membership is about 800 members with 12,000 postings at present. [CEF Study Group - Sept 2010]
http://frontforum.westernfrontassociation.com/

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 - go to the main site and then look for the Forum link in the upper left corner of the website. [CEF Study Group - Sept 2010]
http://www.vickersmachinegun.org.uk/

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 collection of Imperial German headgear but also covers other topics from the German perspective of the Great War. [Recommended by Chris Dale-German Colonial Uniforms Website] [CEF Study Group - Sept 2010]
http://www.pickelhaubes.com/forum/index.php

The Pioneers Corps - Discussion Forum
This small and specialized discussion forum is related to the Pioneer battalions and companies. There is a section on the WWI Labour Corps Coys. [CEF Study Group - Sept 2010
http://royalpioneercorps.yuku.com/
 
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/
 
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 are combined with photographs and commentary. The Ypres Salient and The Somme are the two main areas covered at present with more battle sites to be added. An innovative, 98 page Battle Study is a special feature of this site. The detailed story is told from both the German and Allied sides of the wire with the aid of Map and Time-line windows. Maps, previously untranslated German material and original research add fascinating details to the study. [CEF Study Group]
http://www.greatwar.co.uk/index.htm
 
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 formation of a new “World War I department” within the Flemish Heritage Institute (VIOE), the A.W.A. became its research center. It is very detailed and sets a new example of Internet-based information for both the casual reading and the serious researcher. [CEF Study Group - Updated Aug 2010]
http://www.a-w-a.be/
 
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 information was matched with a request, the Agency was able to send a reply to the family or the place of origin of the prisoner of war concerned. During the war the Agency made out 4,805,000 index cards and dispatched 1,854,914 parcels and consignments of collective relief. In some cases, Great War researchers are able to obtain information from the ICRC. [CEF Study Group - Sept 2005]
http://www.icrc.org/Web/Eng/siteeng0.nsf/iwpList74/2FDBD82390D1CD18C1256B66005E78E4
 
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 conservation sections of the institutions listed at the end of this publication for expert advice. [Recommended by MartH-GWF][CEF Study Group – Updated Aug 2010]
http://www.dva.gov.au/aboutDVA/publications/commemorative/memorabilia/Pages/index.aspx
 
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 and photographs for the Soldier's Burden website. [CEF Study Group - Sept 2010]
http://www.trenchfighter.homepage.t-online.de/40312/179301.html
 
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]
http://digitalgallery.nypl.org/nypldigital/dgkeysearchresult.cfm?parent_id=452489&word

George Eastman House - Still Photograph Archive
This part of a larger photographic website contains an index and access to 510 selected images from Turkey and soldiers of the Ottoman Empire just prior to and during the Great War. [CEF Study Group - Dec 2005]
http://www.eastmanhouse.org/tools/results.php?cx=010826528208080252376%3Anqagz83huc4&cof=FORID%3A11&ie=UTF-8&q=military&sa=Search#933

WERKOST.COM
This website features the Shuttleworth Aircraft Collection photos, Verdun battlefield visit photos, a Verdun map project, the Somme 1916 map project and the 1914-1918 War Memorials (Kriegerdenkmäler) for the Rheingau. Some interesting map-work to be looked at. [CEF Study Group - Mar 2006]
http://www.werkost.com/

Imperial War Museum – Collections on-line
A photograph search database with access to a very large number of photographs, reference numbers and copyright status. This website will be of value to serious researchers and authors looking for unique and specific photographs. [CEF Study Group - April 2006]
http://www.iwmcollections.org.uk/qryPhotoImg.asp
 
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 – Dec 2006]
http://ww-one.airforce.ru/index.htm

Great War Digital – LineMan Software Mapping Package – 1:10,000 Scale
The company has scanned over 750+ trench maps, historical maps and documents by digital scanning and then applied both GPS references and the ability to present and manipulate in 3-D. The system has the capability to work on a PC/ Laptop or on PDA devices. The product is expensive and personal reviews on the product will be sought. However, as battle planning and operations, artillery fire and ground movements were based on this type of mapping; the LinesMan product could reveal a different perspective on the study of the Great War. [CEF Study Group – Dec 2006]
http://www.greatwardigital.com/index.shtml
 
*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 that the German Air Forces had to get organized in squadrons (Jagdstaffeln) if they wanted to fight effectively against the enemy. Also it was Boelcke who wrote down his tactics and experiences in a document called “The Dicta Boelcke" - a set of guidelines being still followed today by the pilots of modern jet fighter squadrons. On this site you will find historical accurate information about Oswald Boelcke and his Jasta as well as stories about other German Aces and pictures of aircraft on display at various museums. Highly recommended as one of the premier aviation Great War websites. [CEF Study Group - June 2005]
http://jastaboelcke.de/
 
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 reference material. [CEF Study Group - Sept 2010]
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_World_War_I_aces_credited_with_more_than_20_victories
 
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]
http://www.richthofen.com/
 
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 built during the Great War and to produce a colored illustration of each aircraft. [CEF Study Group - June 2006]
http://www.fokkerdr1.com/Mainpage.htm

Flieger Album - German Album of Photographs from Great War
All text in German. However, many excellent photographs of German aircraft, pilots and buildings from the Great War. Of special interest to aviation researchers. [CEF Study Group]
http://www.flieger-album.de/
 
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/
 
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 – Jan 2007]
http://www.aerofile.info/fokkerd7/d7html/index.html
 
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