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 years later, as well as memos, letters, treaties and the text of speeches throughout the war and beyond. This section is the most complete source of primary documents related to the Great War. [CEF Study Group - April 2005]
http://www.firstworldwar.com/index.htm
The World War One Document Archive
This website serves as a single repository archive of primary documents from World War I and has been assembled by members of the Great War military history community. To date this site has received over 11 million visits. The archive is intended to present primary source documents concerning the Great War at one location. The material, as of [June 2006] which includes hundreds of documents, is organized in the following chapters:
Conventions, Treaties, & Official Papers
Documents by Year
Memorials, Personal Reminiscences
WWI Biographical Dictionary
WWI Image Archive
Special Topics and Commentary Articles
The Maritime War
The Medical Front
The Medical Front
WWI Sites: Links to Other Resources
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Comments and updates can be directed to:
A.J. Plotke,
[email protected] [Note: This site is “mirrored” on the Brigham Young University Library server.] www.gwpda.org
The Entente Cordiale Between the United Kingdom and France -
8 April, 1904
Great Britain, Parliamentary Papers London, 1911, Vol. CIII, Cmd. 5969
Formally titled, the 'Declaration between the United Kingdom and France Respecting Egypt and Morocco, Together with the Secret Articles Signed at the Same Time.' The Entente cordiale later became part of the Triple Entente among the UK, France, and Russia. [WWI Document Archive][CEF Study Group – Oct 2010]
http://wwi.lib.byu.edu/index.php/The_Entente_Cordiale_Between_The_United_Kingdom_and_France
The Anglo-Russian Entente -
31 August 1907
The Anglo-Russian Convention of 1907 identified boundaries and mutual control between Russia and Great Britain regarding in Persia, Afghanistan, and Tibet. [WWI Document Archive][CEF Study Group – Oct 2010]
http://www.gwpda.org/1914m/anglruss.html
The Schlieffen Plan –
1905/1914
Count Alfred von Schlieffen, who became Chief of the Great General Staff in 1891, submitted his plan in 1905; it was adopted, slightly modified, in 1914. The plan itself is described in The Army Quarterly, London (July, 1929), 18 (2): 286-90 and presented on this website. [WWI Document Archive][CEF Study Group – Sept 2006]
http://www.lib.byu.edu/~rdh/wwi/1914m/schlieffen.html
Kitchener's Address to the Troops -
1914
An address by Field-Marshal Kitchener to the British Troops:[This paper is to be considered by each soldier as confidential, and to be kept in his Active Service Pay Book.][WWI Document Archive][CEF Study Group – Oct 2010]
http://www.gwpda.org/1914/kitchner.html
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). [WWI Document Archive][CEF Study Group – Oct 2010]
http://www.gwpda.org/1914/germandecruss.html
The Sykes-Picot Agreement -
15 & 16 May, 1916
The complete text of the secret treaty between Britain and France defining their respective spheres of post-World War I influence and control in the Middle East. Much of the current troubles in the Middle East has been ascribed to this initial treaty. Also see The Balfour Declaration.][WWI Document Archive][CEF Study Group – Oct 2010]
http://www.lib.byu.edu/~rdh/wwi/1916/sykespicot.html
The German Admiralty's Declaration Regarding Unrestricted U-Boat Warfare -
4 February 1915
Translated from the Reichsanzeiger, February 4th, 1915
This communication from Germany, forbidding all merchant shipping traffic in British waters, opened the first wave of: "unrestricted" submarine warfare.][WWI Document Archive][CEF Study Group – Oct 2010]
http://www.gwpda.org/1915/admiralty.html
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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 Majesty's Stationery Office, 1926. Collected and Arranged with Introduction and Notes by J.W. Headlam-Morley, M.A., C.B.E., Historical Adviser to the Foreign Office.[Note: This is a mirror site of The World War One Document Archive, www.gwpda.org][CEF Study Group]
http://www.lib.byu.edu/estu/wwi/1914m/gooch/goochidx.htm
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,' and 'E - Naval clauses' is not similarly categorized (e.g., 'D' or 'E'). This anomaly occurs in the original document. Ed.]The present Armistice was signed on the 11th day of November 1918, at 5 o'clock A.M. (French time). [WWI Document Archive][CEF Study Group]
http://www.gwpda.org/papers.html#CA
