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Art, Photography, Cartoons and other Images

  • Art of the First World War
    An astounding collection representing artists from Guillaume Apollinaire through Eric Kennington to Ossip Zadkine - UNESCO.

La Guerre illustrée

[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. The Great War in a Different Light
Accounts from Contemporary Books and Magazines, Photo Galleries and Illustrations. The Poster War: Allied Propaganda Art of the First World War - Provincial Museum of Alberta Louis Raemaekers, Raemaekers' Cartoons (London: Hodder & Stoughton, 1916).
British propaganda cartoons on the German invasion of Belgium
Digitally assembled at Brigham Young University. 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 Literature An Anthem for Dead Youth
An eclectic survey of the literature of the Great War.
From an exhibit in BYU Library's Special Collections. I Figli della guerra.
Venice: Istituto Veneto di Arti Grafiche Venezia, 1919 Maps and Atlas The Geography of the Great War by Frank M. McMurry
(New York: Macmillan, 1919). Music


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.


Belgium

  • 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.


Canada

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.

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.

The Canadian Wartime Experience: The Documentary Legacy of Canada at War - digitised documents maintained at the University of Manitoba.

The Canadian War Museum / Musée canadien de la guerre .

  • 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.
Songs Popular during the First World War (audio) 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.
The First World War: Sources for History - sponsored by the British National Archives.
  • Hellfire Corner, a WWI site by Tom Morgan focusing on British and Imperial involvement.
The International Internet Encyclopædia of the First World War, England, an ambitious schools project with local history links. Ongoing. The Long, Long Trail: Story of the British Army in the Great War of 1914-1918. 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. France The "Association 1914-1918" of France, homepage. The Battle of Verdun, 1916 Le Colloque international "Traces de 14-18". 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. 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.
  • Vestiges militaria - French-language portal to war relics & personal collections left over from the First and the Second World Wars.
Germany
(see also Clio Online: Themenportal 1. Weltkrieg) The Ernst Jünger Home Page. (German author). Greece Mexico The Netherlands The Netherlands Western Front Museum Newfoundland New Zealand
  • 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.
Northern Ireland and the Republic of Ireland Russia Scotland South Africa Turkey/Ottoman Empire United States The First Division Museum at Cantigny, Illinois, USA. 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.
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) The Nation's Forum: Early Sound Recordings of America's Leaders, 1918-1920 (USA). The Price of Freedom: Americans at War - an exhibition of the Smithsonian Institution. The US Naval Reserve force at Porto Corsini, Italy; August - December 1918. 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 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 These are supplemented by sites covering most aspects of Air Warfare:


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