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WWI Document Archive > Links to Other WWI Sites
Note: In addition to other text and image sites listed below,
see the WWI Resource Center's text archive and image archive.
Contents
- 1 General Information
- 2 Biographical Sketches
- 3 Bibliographies and Webographies
- 4 Genealogical Resources
- 5 Home Front
- 6 Literature
- 7 Maps and Atlases
- 8 Music
- 9 Visual Arts
- 10 By Country
- 10.1 Australia
- 10.2 Belgium
- 10.3 Canada
- 10.4 Czechoslovakia
- 10.5 England / Great Britain
- 10.6 France
- 10.7 Germany
- 10.8 Greece
- 10.9 Italy
- 10.10 Mexico
- 10.11 The Netherlands
- 10.12 Newfoundland
- 10.13 New Zealand
- 10.14 Northern Ireland and the Republic of Ireland
- 10.15 Russia
- 10.16 Scotland (see also Great Britain)
- 10.17 South Africa
- 10.18 Turkey/Ottoman Empire
- 10.19 United States
- 11 Miscellaneous Sites
General Information
- Clio Online: Themenportal 1. Weltkrieg - extremely comprehensive collection of links from a scholarly German perspective.
- See especially the sitemap -- some annotations are in English.
- Documents of World War I assembled by Vincent Ferraro of Mount Holyoke College.
- Electronic Facsimile Texts of World War One -- books and documents digitized in University of Wisconsin Digital History Collection.
- First World War: Index -- an ambitious school project of relevant, categorized links.
- FirstWorldWar.com assembled by Michael Duffy.
- The First World War 1914-1918 - A website of René Brouwer in the Netherlands.
- The Great War 1914-1918 -- from a British perspective.
- The Great War Archive -- An initiative of the University of Oxford
- Museum of the Great War -- English version of the French Historial de la Grande Guerre.
- Online World War I Indexes & Records -- Genealogical sources for WWI vets, mostly U.S. but also international.
- overthefront.com - Official Website of the League of World War I Aviation Historians - accumulating, preserving and publishing data on the aerial activity of World War I.
- Remembering World War One - in pictures, letters and memories. Part of Europeana Collections 1914-1918.
- Story Bytes - Very Short Stories written on the general conduct and events of the Great War.
- Trenches on the Web (Graphic Images of Trench Warfare-- World War I).
- Virtual Tour of the Western Front -- World War I.
- Wars & Conflict -- World War I (A part of the BBC History website).
- World War I Collection - Digitized primary source materials from the "Pamphlets" Collection at the University of Colorado at Boulder Libraries.
- WWI Resource Center - Another project of the World War I Discussion Group.
Biographical Sketches
- Who's Who in the First World War - for politicians, monarchs, military leaders, and other main figures.
Bibliographies and Webographies
- Journaux de tranchées en ligne - list of digitized newspapers of World War I, chiefly in French and German.
- Research Tools - WWW-VL - from the Virtual Library for History, Great War.
- WWI Books - from U.C. San Diego History Department.
- WWI on the Web - from U.C. San Diego History Department.
- WWI Topics - from U.C. San Diego History Department.
Genealogical Resources
Home Front
- Books and U.S. government publications documenting the national effort to make food the key to winning World War I.
- Digitized in University of Wisconsin's Digital History Collection.
- London: The Over-Seas Club, [1914-1918]
Literature
- An eclectic survey of the literature of the Great War.
- From an exhibit in BYU Library's Special Collections.
- Venice: Istituto Veneto di Arti Grafiche Venezia, 1919
- Provided by Oxford University; includes manuscript facsimiles of WWI poets.
- The Great War
- This site at Emory University includes a great number of digitized poems and postcards.
- An interactive research blog.
- By Margaret Wade Campbell Deland
- Boston: The American Authors Fund, [1914-1918]
Maps and Atlases
- The Geography of the Great War by Frank M. McMurry
- (New York: Macmillan, 1919).
- Grosser Bilderatlas des Weltkrieges [Great Illustrated Atlas of the World War]
- 3 vols. (Munich: F. Bruckmann, 1915-1919). - auf Deutsch -
- Digitized in University of Wisconsin Digital History Collection.
- Maps of World War I, offering detailed maps of war plans, battles, and political realignments (U.S. Military Academy).
- Maps of World War I - from the History Department, U.C. San Diego.
- WWI: Maps of the Great War - from students of Doss High School, Louisville, Kentucky.
Music
- World War I Sheet Music: A Brown University Library Digital Collection.
Visual Arts
Art
- An astounding collection representing artists from Guillaume Apollinaire through Eric Kennington to Ossip Zadkine - UNESCO.
- Art of World War I on the Madame Pickwick Art Blog.
- The online exhibition is sponsored by the Spencer Museum of Art at the University of Kansas.
- Military War Art and Artists, including art from numerous wars in the Twentieth Century
- Site maintained by the government of Ontario, Canada.
Cartoons and Illustrated Books
- Bécassine pendant la guerre [Bécassine During the War]
- Cartoons of J.-P. Pinchon, vaguely reminiscent of Wilhelm Busch and his Max und Moritz
- (Paris: Gautier et Languereau, 1916)
- Digitized in University of Wisconsin's Digital History Collection.
- by Captain P.L. Crosby
- with the 77th Division in France
- New York: Harper & Brothers, 1919
- Cartoons of Bruce Bairnsfather
- [Bairnsfather was the British "Bill Mauldin" of World War One]
- (London: "The Bystander" Tallis House, Whitefriars, & 190, Strand, n.d.)
- Digitized in University of Wisconsin Digital History Collection.
- The Bystander's Fragments from France
- The Bystander's Fragments from France, vol. IV
- Clippings from the Bystander, no. 5
- More Fragments from France, vol. II
- More Fragments from France, vol. 5
- Still More Bystander's Fragments from France, vol. III
- [Caricatures Designed to Enrage: Toward a Psychology of Entente]
- (Berlin: Curtius, 1917). - Foreword in German, cartoons in French -
- Digitized in University of Wisconsin Digital History Collection.
- On the Rue Du Bois -- illustrated by Frederick George Scott
- London: Society for Propagating Christian Knowledge, [1914-1918]
- Digitized in University of Wisconsin Digital History Collection.
- Louis Raemaekers, Raemaekers' Cartoons (London: Hodder & Stoughton, 1916).
- British propaganda cartoons on the German invasion of Belgium
- Digitally assembled at Brigham Young University.
Film
- A film documentary examining the Western political intrigue that laid the foundation for wars, coups, revolts and military interventions in the Middle East.
- Film Records of the Canadian Participation in World War One - by the National Film Board.
- Films of World War I - chronology and sources.
- A Gift from a German P.O.W. after an Act of Courage - billed as an "interactive video," this is a touching story set to film in which you can navigate away for further details.
- Part of the First World War Poetry Digital Archive.
- Rare World War I Film - featuring German footage (available for viewing online).
- A clickable list of available films is found underneath the viewing window.
- Videos from the Decade of the Great War - searchable by topic or location on the CriticalPast website.
- A film documentary narrated by David Carridine.
Photography, Photo Collections, Photo Essays
- Bag linierne: Vejen til sejr bygges [Behind the Lines: Building a Path to Victory: Danish]
- (Leeds: Petty and Sons, n.d.)
- Photographs digitized in University of Wisconsin Digital History Collection.
- (New York: The Committee for Men Blinded in Battle, 1917)
- Photographs and text digitized in University of Wisconsin Digital History Collection.
- Photographic documents of the French Ministry of War's Photography Section.
- 2 vols. (Paris: Ministère de la guerre, 1917)
- Digitized in University of Wisconsin Digital History Collection.
- "For the Future": Belgium and Northern France (San Francisco, Califormia: Commission for Relief in Belgium, 1916).
- [From Businessman to Man of War -- The Training of a British Soldier: Danish]
- (London: Eyre and Spottiswoode, n.d.)
- Photographs digitized in University of Wisconsin Digital History Collection.
- [Through Swamp and Jungle -- The British Campaign in Africa: Danish]
- (Bristol: Rankin Bros., n.d.)
- Photographs digitized in University of Wisconsin Digital History Collection.
- [The War in Pictures -- March 1918 French ed. of Verdenskrigen i billeder (below)]
- (London: Illustrated London News & Sketch, 1918).
- Digitized in University of Wisconsin Digital History Collection.
- Accounts from Contemporary Books and Magazines, Photo Galleries and Illustrations.
- Picture of 18,000 Soldiers training at Fort Dodge, Iowa (click to enlarge).
- ["Hanging In There" -- British Women's Work in Wartime: Danish]
- (England: The Mendip Press, n.d.)
- Photographs digitized in University of Wisconsin Digital History Collection.
- [Naval Watch Illustrated: The Unwavering Vigil of the British Fleet: Danish]
- (London: Harrison, Jehring and Co., n.d.).
- Photographs digitized in University of Wisconsin Digital History Collection.
- [Illustrated History of the War of 1914] by Gabriel Hanotaux
- 17 vols. (Paris: Gounouilhou, 1915-1924). - en français -
- Digitized in University of Wisconsin Digital History Collection.
- Hundreds of images digitized in University of Wisconsin Digital History Collection.
- A visual tour of important WWI sites as they now appear.
- 286 photographs printed in The Independent
- Verdenskrigen i billeder [World War in Pictures: Danish]
- Subtitle added June-December 1918: ... fra de allieredes fronter [From the Allied Front]
- (London: Hodder & Stoughton, 1917-1918)
- Digitized in University of Wisconsin Digital History Collection.
- 1917: October - November - December
- 1918: January - February - . . . - May - June - July - August - September - October - November - December
- London: The Over-Seas Club, [1914-1918]
- Photos from the German trenches by Hans Hildenbrand, presented by Spiegel Online International with an English interface.
- Various photo collections from WWI.
- Digital facsimiles of the collection at New York Public Library.
- Including French images from Gallica, the online service of the French National Library.
- From Library and Archives Canada.
Posters and Leaflets
- Canadian Posters from the First World War - from the Archives of Ontario
- Canadian War Poster Collection - McGill University Libraries
- The Poster War: Allied Propaganda Art of the First World War - Provincial Museum of Alberta
- Psychological Operations Leaflet Archive - including World War I leaflets.
- War Poster Collection. Manuscripts and Archives, Yale University Library.
- Posters, Photos, Poets and Artists.
- World War I Posters from the Elisabeth Ball Collection - part of Ball State University's Digital Media Repository.
- World War I Posters - from the Trenches on the Web library
- World War Poster Collection - University of North Texas Digital Library
- War Posters from 1910-1919.
By Country
Australia
- The Australian Archives: From this page can be located Australian WWI serving personnel records, along with memorials and other records of Australian participation in the Great War.
- The Australian Defence Force Academy: Includes access to the 'First AIF Database Project' which... seeks to record comprehensive information on all 332,000 men and women (i.e. nurses) who served in the the Australian Imperial Force 1914-19.
- A subset of Australian Army War Diaries from the Australian War Memorial.
- Ed. by Charles Bean; in 12 volumes (1920-1942).
- From the Australian War Memorial.
Belgium
- Association for World War Archaeology, with archaeological research carried out at several WWI sites in the Ypres Salient.
- Fort de Liezele. Belgium - 1908-1914; concrete fortifications. In Dutch and English.
A new Belgian site, 'In Flanders Fields'.
- Les Chevaliers du Ciel, a site in French, from Belgium, on the German fliers, including Richthofen, Voss, Udet.
- An Unfortunate Region - Flanders
Canada
- The 48th Highlanders of Canada - Official site.
- An Archival Look at World War I -- many items digitized from the Queen's University Archives, Canada
- The Archives of Ontario Remembers Our Canadian War Heroes. - maintained by the government of Ontario, Canada.
- The Black Watch (RHR) of Canada - the senior Canadian Highland Regiment.
- Canada at War - The National SchoolNet collections site, part of Canada's Digital Collections, includes the: CEF Attestation Papers; Books of Remembrance; Aviation Hall of Fame; Canadian Military Medals and Decorations; Canadian Veterans Recollect; Courage Remembered; The Northwest Rebellion of 1885; the Taconis Collection and Canadian Military Uniforms. Major resource, en français et anglais.
- The Canada Expeditionary Force Study Group-- forum and research help.
- Canada in the First World War from Veterans Affairs Canada.
- Also available in the French version.
- Canada in the Great World War: An Authentic Record of the Military History of Canada from the Earliest Days to the Close of the War of the Nations
- Toronto: United Publishers of Canada, 1917-1921.
- Vol. 1 Military History of Canada, 1608-1914
- Vol. 2 Days of Preparation
- Vol. 3 Guarding the Channel Ports
- Vol. 4 The Turn of the Tide
- Vol. 5 The Triumph of the Allies
- Vol. 6 Special Services, Heroic Deeds, Etc.
- Canadian Air Aces and Heroes, in WWI, WWII and Korea.
- Canadian Expeditionary Force: 1914-1919 - Official History of the Canadian Army in the First World War, by Colonel G.W.L. Nicholson (PDF file).
- The Canadian Great War Homepage - The Canadian Military Heritage Project
- The Canadian Great War Project - Large fully-searchable database of Canadians who served in the First World War.
- Canadian sheet music from the First World War era (National Library of Canada)
- The Canadian Wartime Experience: The Documentary Legacy of Canada at War - digitised documents maintained at the University of Manitoba.
- Courage Remembered: The World Wars through Canadian Eyes.
- First World War from the Canadian Military History Gateway - literally hundreds of sites.
- The First World War: Canada Remembers - video and sound files from CBC Archives.
- From Colony to Country: A Reader's Guide to Canadian Military History (National Library of Canada)
- Glenbow Museum (Calgary, Alberta, Canada), featuring images from its rich collection.
- Jack Turner's War - photos, articles, interviews.
- 'Lest We Forget' - with galleries of photographs and posters
- Museum of the Regiments, Calgary, Alberta, Canada.
- National Archives of Canada, with sections dealing with locating and obtaining Canadian Service records held within the Archives.
- Over the Top, an interactive trench adventure at the Canadian War Museum.
- Parks Canada's page concerning the Internment camps erected during the First World War in Banff National Park, at the Cave and Basin and near Castle Mountain.
- Veterans Affairs Canada, The First World War.
- Virtual Gramophone - The First World War Era - Canadian Historical Sound Recordings.
- War Diaries of the First World War - diaries of Canadian Expeditionary Force (CEF) units, digitised by the National Archives.
- World War I Images - from Library and Archives Canada.
Czechoslovakia
England / Great Britain
- The Accrington Pals - site dedicated to the 11th (Service) Battalion (Accrington) East Lancashire Regiment (It even has a German-language interface!)
- Captain Noel Chavasse, Medical Officer of the 10th (Liverpool Scottish) Battalion, the King's (Liverpool) Regiment, England, the only man to win the Victoria Cross twice during the Great War. The primary reference for this life.
- Centre for First World War Studies - located at the University of Birmingham.
- See in particular Lions Led by Donkeys for biographical notes on British generals.
- Chailey 1914-1918 - the story of a village community (in what is now East Sussex) during the First World War.
- Craiglockhart Hospital and the poets Sassoon and Owens.
- First World War - as reported by the Guardian.
- The First World War: Sources for History - sponsored by the British National Archives.
- GCSE World War One History Revision (England) - Teaching aids and examination papers concerning the Great War.
- Hellfire Corner, a WWI site by Tom Morgan focusing on British and Imperial involvement.
- Imperial War Museum, London, England.
- National Archives (Great Britain). Includes the complete catalogue of holdings, and digital documents.
- National Register of Archives for the United Kingdom; England.
- The Northallerton Memorials Project - the record of the war dead of Northallerton, Romanby & Brompton, North Yorkshire, England.
- Oxford WWW Isaac Rosenberg Tutorial: A WWI Chronology, interpretative material and contextual information.
- The Psywar Society of Great Britain publishes The Falling Leaf, which has published articles dealing with the Great War, including 'The First Leaflet of the First World War', 'Propaganda Behind The Lines', and 'Air Disseminated Postcards of the First World War.
- The Robert Graves Society Information Centre: St. John's College, England.
- The Royal British Legion Home Page, England
- The Western Front Association website, Great Britain
- The Wilfred Owen Digital Multimedia Archive, the University of Oxford, England's innovative and comprehensive archive dealing with Owen, with film clips, photographs, poetry tutorials and a complete run of the Hydra.
France
- The "Association 1914-1918" of France, homepage.
- Commemoration at Metz, and the Verdun 1916: un Train-Expo à Metz, France.
- La Deuxième Bataille de la Marne 1914-1918, France - The Second Battle of the Marne River; Pour tout savoir sur la Bataille et les détails des opérations de la Commémoration de la Deuxième Bataille de la Marne.
- Histoire et memoire des deux guerres mondiales. A website of the Centre Régional de Documentation Pedagogique de Champagne-Ardenne.
- mémoire des hommes -- a French Ministry of Defense database to locate French soldiers who died in combat.
- mémoire des hommes. Journaux des unités (1914-1918) -- Diaries and histories of French combat forces.
- Mémorial de Verdun, 1914-1918 - Verdun as symbol of the Great War?
- Museée Mémorial Le Linge - champ de bataille, 1914-1918. Available in French, English, or German.
- La Première guerre mondiale (1902 - 1932). With documentation of pre- and postwar chronological, thematic and geographic details.
- La Service Historique de l'Armée de Terre, Vincennes, France.
- Somme: a Land of History - ANZAC connexions to the Somme, presented by the French Conseil Général de la Somme.
- Vestiges militaria - French-language portal to war relics & personal collections left over from the First and the Second World Wars.
Germany
- A German-language portal to the First World War.
- Die Darstellbarkeit des Krieges im Museum ("The Presentation of War in Museums")
- A German site reporting on the conference of the same name.
- Das Deutsche Kaiserliche Automobil-Corps und seine Dolche (The German Imperial Automobile Corps in WWI).
- - also available in English -
- Deutsches Historisches Museum: German Historical Museum, Berlin.
- - also available in English -
- Deutsche Marinesoldaten: German Naval Personnel.
- A website of the German Naval Archive.
- The Ernst Jünger Home Page. (German author).
- Erster Weltkrieg - German-language First World War webpage in Virtual Library for History.
- Feldzeitungen aus dem 1. Weltkrieg - online - newspapers for German soldiers at the front.
- The German air corps from 1911 through 1920.
- Information on German flyers, including the "Red Baron," Manfred von Richthofen.
- Militärgeschichtliches Forschungsamt - Military History Research Institute of the German Bundeswehr, located in Potsdam.
- Stahlgewitter - Kriegschronik - offering chronicles and images of the First World War from the German perspective.
Greece
- The Hellenic Resources Network. - Material related to Greece, Turkey, Cyprus, the Balkans, Armenia and Kurdistan during the Great War.
Italy
- La Grande Guerra: The Italian Front 1915-1918 - linking to a number of feature articles and other information about Italy during the Great War.
- 14-18: Immagini della Grande Guerra - images of the Great War from the Italian perspective (including newspapers and magazines).
Mexico
- Historia de la Revolucion Mexicana: A non-traditional view of the Mexican Revolution. En español.
The Netherlands
- The Heritage of the Great War based in The Netherlands: Great War posters, cartoons, photographs, articles dealing with toxic gas and shells.
- The Netherlands Western Front Museum
- An Unfortunate Region - the Netherlands
Newfoundland
New Zealand
- The Alexander Turnbull Museum, New Zealand. Includes images from Sir Ernest Shackelton's (later of the Archangel/Murmansk Expeditions) 1914-1916 Antarctic Voyage.
- New Zealand and the Great War. Peter Hoar's contribution to mark New Zealand's participation in the war, including memorial sites, chronology and bibliography.
- Rover Sunbeam Ambulance. A picture of what is believed to be the last remaining Rover Sunbeam Ambulance.
Northern Ireland and the Republic of Ireland
- Royal Dublin Fusiliers. The history of the RDF, an infantry regiment of the British army that was disbanded before independence in 1922.
- The Somme Heritage Centre, County Down, Northern Ireland.
Russia
Scotland (see also Great Britain)
- Edinburgh's War 1914-1918 - A virtual history archive of Edinburgh during the Great War.
- Scots at War (Scotland)
South Africa
- The War Museum of the Boer Republics (South Africa).
Turkey/Ottoman Empire
- Archive of Turkish Oral Narrative (Turkey)
- Located at the library of Texas Tech University.
- Adventuring with Anatolia College is an Anatolian/Turkish/Armenian resource on the Web Covering the period 1910 until 1921.
- Gallipoli. A website on the battle by Julien Snelders.
United States
- 10th and 20th Forestry Engineers - primary source material and essays on engineers who provided Allied forces with timber needed for the war effort.
- American Battlefields Monument Commission. - Assistance in locating battlefields, gravesites.
- Army Manuals and Publications Search Page, includes access to US Army Technical and Field Manuals. USA
- 'Battery Corporal Willis S. Cole Military Museum' of Kirkland, Washington, USA, dealing with both the exploits of Corporal Cole and aircraft history of the Great War.
- The First Division Museum at Cantigny, Illinois, USA.
- German and Austro-Hungarian Internment during World War One in the United States.
- The Great Bisbee IWW Deportation of July 12, 1917 (Arizona).
- The Great European and World War - specializing in graphics that show formations and orders of battle.
- The Great War Society, Stanford, California. USA.
- Harry S Truman Library, (USA) - with a wide variety of representative documents and photos concerning the President's experiences.
- Liberty Memorial Online - sponsored by the Liberty Memorial Association in Kansas City, Missouri.
- The Lost Poets of the Great War(World War I; by Harry Rusche - USA).
- Life at Camp Funston: Reflections of Army Sergeant Charles L. Johnston, USA. Co-respondence, photographs, dealing with Camp Funston (Ft. Riley), Kansas, 1918.
- The Marcus Garvey and Universal Negro Improvement Association Papers Project. - Online resource and access. USA
- The National Cryptologic Museum: Includes images of the 'Verdun Intercept Site Exhibit' and of the 'Black Chamber.' (USA)
- Newspaper Pictorials - World War I Rotogravures - part of the Library of Congress' American Memory Project (USA).
- POW/MIA Database, offered by the Federal Research Division, US Library of Congress.
- The Price of Freedom: Americans at War - an exhibition of the Smithsonian Institution.
- Sergeant York Patriotic Foundation - with resources on America's "Greatest Hero of World War I."
- Tuscania - An American History - About American troops lost on the Troopship Tuscania Feb. 5, 1918.
- The US Naval Reserve force at Porto Corsini, Italy; August - December 1918.
- The Western Front Association - US Branch - especially noteworthy for its resources section.
- The Woodrow Wilson eLibrary - with, among other things, digital copies of his most famous speeches.
- The Woodrow Wilson House, presented by the US National Trust.
- World War I History Commission Questionnaires of the State of Virginia, USA. The surveys of World War I veterans in Virginia, a fully-searchable database of over 14,900 records, one for each questionnaire respondent, accessible by name, city/county, and race. Each record is also linked to digitized images of each page of the questionnaires, as well as any accompanying material such as photographs and additional pages submitted by the respondents.
Miscellaneous Sites
- Air University Periodicals Index: A searchable database.
- Christmas Truce 1914: Operation Plum Puddings -- A project to document the Christmas Truce.
- History & Lore of the Old World War -- "Artifacts & Odd Bits from 1914-1918," a blog.
- Today is Free - 360-degree virtual views of war cemeteries.
- A variety of materiel sites, including the The World War I Modelling Page; along with those concentrating on Dreadnoughts, Battleships, and the Old Rhinebeck Aerodrome.
WWI Document Archive > Links to Other WWI Sites
