Useful Links
http://1914-1918.invisionzone.com/forums/
The Great War Forum. Unrivalled panel of experts and enthusiasts. Join up, join in and ask away. Tremendous resource for all matters World War One.
http://battlefields1418.50megs.com/
Paul Reed's 'Old Front Line' homepage. Paul's expertise as a battlefield guide and published author is known throughout the Great War 'fraternity'.
http://www.irishwarmemorials.ie/
Irish War Memorials website. A constantly growing site which seeks to record memorials throughout Ireland.
http://irishguards.org.uk/pages/history/ww1.html
The Irish Guards in the Great War
http://www.wartimememoriesproject.com/greatwar/allied/regiment.php?pid=6502
The 5th Royal Irish Lancers
This site attempts to tell the story of the oldest lancer regiment within the British Army. Ranging throughout it's turbulent history dating from 1689, temporary disbandment in 1799, reformation in 1858 and it's eventual disbandment in 1922. "The Redbreasts" or "The Daily Advertisers" as the 5th Royal Irish Lancers were known, went into battle with the motto of the Order of St Patrick "Quis Separabit" (Who Shall Separate?). Detailed site with lots of linkages to other Irish military units.
My thanks to Dwight Mercer of the Canadian Expeditionary Force Study Group for the amazing collection of WW1 'links' below. Anyone who becomes involved in World War One research will swiftly discover the enthusiastic and extremely helpful Canadians.
http://www.cefresearch.com
The Canadian Expeditionary Force Study Group can be accessed at the following URL address:
The following Great War websites are considered of a higher quality and/or represent unique sources of information on the Internet.
Library and Archives Canada - Military History
The fundamental URL for most CEF researchers. This site contains a wide range of basic links and represents a "starting point" for many people just beginning research on the CEF in the Great War.
http://www.collectionscanada.ca/war-military/index-e.html
Library and Archives Canada - Soldiers of the First World War (1914-1918)
Over 600,000 Canadians enlisted in the Canadian Expeditionary Force (CEF) during the First World War (1914-1918). The CEF database is an index to those personnel files, which are held by the National Archives. To date, over 800,000 images of Attestation papers have been scanned and are being made available on-line.
http://www.collectionscanada.ca/archivianet/02010602_e.html
The Canadian War Museum
The Canadian War Museum (CWM) is an affiliated museum of the Canadian Museum of Civilization. The Canadian War Museum, the national military history museum is also a centre for research and the dissemination of information and expertise on all aspects of the country's military past from the pre-contact era to the present. The new museum opens in May 2005.
http://www.warmuseum.ca/
The Regimental Warpath
A good start in listing of a wide range of national military units from the Great War. More work needs to be done on the Canadian Expeditionary Force, perhaps some member could assist in the work being done by volunteer effort by the site owner.
http://www.warpath.orbat.com/index.htm
The First World War. Com - The War to End All Wars
The purpose of this website is to provide an overview of the First World War. Necessarily a long-term undertaking - and a little over four years into the process - much remains to be covered. Michael Duffy, site editor
http://www.firstworldwar.com/index.htm
Australian War Memorial
The website provides sections on Australian Military History, First World War Official Histories, Australian Military Units and Military Organizational and Structure
http://www.awm.gov.au/atwar/index.htm
AEF - The Story of the American Expeditionary Forces - Doughboy Center
The site is linked to the Great War Society and contains a wide range of topics and information on the American Expeditionary Force.
http://www.worldwar1.com/dbc/ghq1arm.htm
The London Gazette [Great War Archive]
The London, Edinburgh, and Belfast Gazettes are the official newspapers of record in the United Kingdom and include notices relating to State, Parliament, Planning, Transport, Public Finance, etc. There are a number of supplements to the London Gazette, which cover single subjects. These include: the Queen?s Birthday Honours and the New Years Honours, Imperial Service Medal, and the Ministry of Defence including promotions and military awards. This section is a data base search for the Great War. Results are presented in .pdf format.
[Recommendation by Richard Laughton]
http://www.gazettes-online.co.uk/archiveSearch.asp?WebType=0&Referer=WW1
New Zealand and World War One Regimental Rolls of Honour
The website contains an extensive list of New Zealand regimental histories, embarkation rolls (1914-1919) and honour rolls and decorations for many of the following: Auckland Mounted Rifles, Roll of Honour - Gallipoli, Sinai and Palestine, Auckland Regiment, Canterbury Mounted Rifles, Canterbury Regiment - NZEF, New Zealand Camel Corps, New Zealand Cyclist Corps, New Zealand Engineers, New Zealand Field Artillery, New Zealand Machine Gun Corps, New Zealand (Maori) Pioneer Battalion, New Zealand Medical Services, New Zealand Rifle Brigade, New Zealand Tunnelling Company, Otago Regiment, Wellington Mounted Rifle Regiment and Wellington Regiment.
http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com/~sooty/regtitle.html
WW1Cemeteries.com
This website site currently contains over 1250 different images of the First World War Cemeteries of France and Belgium, as well as numerous other images of Military cemeteries and memorials from around the world. All of these cemeteries have been personally visited and photographed by the authors over the last six years. The site also contains many other Military cemeteries and memorials from all around the world and features regimental headstone badges, a cemetery index for Victoria Cross recipients, and an index of "Shot at Dawn" soldiers. Again, another well designed and presented website.
http://ww1cemeteries.com/
Imperial War Museum - United Kingdom
The Imperial War Museum is a multi-branch national museum founded in 1917 to record the story of the Great War and the contributions made to it by the peoples of the Empire. It maintain collections of works of art, which include over 15,000 paintings, drawings and sculptures and 30,000 posters; objects ranging from aircraft, armoured fighting vehicles and naval vessels to uniforms, badges, personal equipment, and medals and decorations; documents, both British and foreign; printed books comprising a national reference library of over 155,000 items; 120 million feet of cine film and over 6,500 hours of video tape; over 6 million photographs and photographic negatives and transparencies, and some 32,000 recorded hours of historical sound recordings
http://www.iwm.org.uk/
The Heritage of the Great War
The is based in The Netherlands and features material in English and Dutch. It provides an interesting and different perspective on the Great War.
http://www.greatwar.nl/
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 the commoner French words and phrases. This mixture made for a colourful and interesting blend. Learn the meanings of "iddy umpty", "a maiden's prayer", the "spotted dog" and to "wet one's stripes" from this website. [Recommendation by Brett Payne]
http://sir.cyivs.cy.edu.tw/~hchung/warslang.htm
Paths of Glory Website - Trench Map Section
This website is part of Croonaert Research and contains a wide range of information and research services primarily for the BEF researcher. However, there is a simple and clear presentation on the type of BEF mapping and trench maps from 1914 until 1918. Croonaert is a regular contributor on the Great War Forum.
http://pathsofglory.co.uk/trench%20maps.htm
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. An exhibition of 110 paintings brought together by the major history museums of Europe. World War I as seen by 54 painters on both sides. The artists and their work are brought into context in a detailed presentation of the works by art historian and exhibition curator Philippe Dagen.
http://www.art-ww1.com/gb/texte/032text.html
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.
http://www.firstworldwar.com/source/index.htm
Sir Douglas Haig's Despatches as British Commander-in-Chief, 1916-1919
When Douglas Haig was appointed Commander-in-Chief of the British Armies operating in France and Flanders in December 1915 he was expected to follow in the tradition of his predecessors with the periodical submittal of despatches from the Front, each detailing the progress of his armies' campaigns since the last such report. Haig thus ensured delivery of eight despatches covering British operations from December 1915 until the war's close in November 1918.
http://www.firstworldwar.com/source/haig_despatches.htm
Sir Douglas Haig's Despatches as British Commander-in-Chief, 1916-1919
When Douglas Haig was appointed Commander-in-Chief of the British Armies operating in France and Flanders in December 1915 he was expected to follow in the tradition of his predecessors with the periodical submittal of despatches from the Front, each detailing the progress of his armies' campaigns since the last such report. Haig thus ensured delivery of eight despatches covering British operations from December 1915 until the war's close in November 1918.
http://www.firstworldwar.com/source/haig_despatches.htm
Sir Douglas Haig's 1st Despatch (St Eloi), 19 May 1916.
Primary Documents from FirstWorldWar.com website. [Mike Duffy website]
http://www.firstworldwar.com/source/haigsteloidespatch.htm
Sir Douglas Haig's 2nd Despatch (Somme), 23 December 1916. Primary Documents from FirstWorldWar.com website. [Mike Duffy website]
http://www.firstworldwar.com/source/haigsommedespatch.htm
Sir Douglas Haig's 3rd Despatch (German Retreat to the Hindenburg Line), 31 May 1917
Primary Documents from FirstWorldWar.com website. [Mike Duffy website]
http://www.firstworldwar.com/source/haighindenburgdespatch.htm
Sir Douglas Haig's 4th Despatch (1917 Campaigns), 25 December 1917
Primary Documents from FirstWorldWar.com website. [Mike Duffy website]
http://www.firstworldwar.com/source/haigcampaign1917despatch.htm
Sir Douglas Haig's 5th Despatch (Cambrai Operations), 20 February 1918
Primary Documents from FirstWorldWar.com website. [Mike Duffy website]
http://www.firstworldwar.com/source/haigcambraidespatch.htm
University of Birmingham - Centre for First World War Studies
Many members of the Centre are published authors of some authourity on the Great War and several are associated with the Great War Forum discussion board. The site includes information on their Journal, seminars and lecture series, book reviews, and a wide range of quality website links.
http://www.firstworldwar.bham.ac.uk/
In Flanders Field Museum
This Belgium website operates in conjunction with the museum. There are images and sound - therefore normal dial-up connections may not be sufficient to access this site. A sensitive presentation of the battles in Flanders.
http://www.inflandersfields.be/default2.htm
The Great War in Flanders Fields
http://www.wo1.be/
Larne War Dead (East Antrim)
http://larne-in-ww1.irishgenealogy.net/antrimgen.html
Royal Belfast Academical Institution war dead
http://www.instgreatwar.com/
Northern Bank - War Memorials / Roll of Honour
http://northernbankwarmemorials.blogspot.co.uk/