For a super-comprehensive list of WW1 web sites (but with a particular emphasis on Canadian sites and records) please go to this link and download Borden Battery's pdf file. It is constantly being updated so regular downloads are in order.
The Commonwealth War Graves Commission Details of all military deaths in World Wars One &
Two with details of graves, memorials and cemeteries
The National
Archives Holds all official
documents relating to WW1, soldiers service records, medal rolls,
unit War Diaries, Cabinet Papers, etc.,
The London Gazette On-line searchable Government resource giving details
of many gallantry awards as well as official
appointments
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The Imperial War
Museum Links to one-line indexes of documents,
photgraphs, films, etc. The IWM holds the London Rifle Brigade
records
The National Army Museum Reading room gives access to huge library of
books, photographs and documents
Army Museums Ogilby Trust Searchable index of many military museums,
books, etc.
The Liddle
Collection On-line index to one of the key WW1
resources
The Somme Heritage Centre The Somme Association web
site, the centre commemorates the involvement of the 36th
(Ulster) and 16th (Irish) Divisions in the Battle of the Somme,
the 10th (Irish) Division in Gallipoli, Salonika and
Palestine
Liddell Hart
Centre for Military Archives
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Cheshire Military Museum
London Scottish Regiment
Museum
Middlesex Regiment Collection at
NAM
Monmouthshire Regiment (now subsumed into the Royal Regiment
of Wales
Princess Louise's Kensington Regiment Museum 41 (PLK)
Signals Squadron (V) TAC Marlpit Lane Tel: 017375 54023 By
Appointment only
Royal Engineers Museum
Royal Regiment of Fusiliers (London)
Museum HM Tower of London London EC3N 4AB Tel: 020 7488
5610
Firepower! Royal Artillery Museum
Army Medical Services Museum, Keogh
Barracks Ash Vale Aldershot Hampshire GU12 5RQ Tel: 01252
868612
Sherwood
Foresters Museum
Staffordshire Regment Museum
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The Long, Long Trail Simply the best web site
on the British Army in WW1
Great War Forum Simply the best WW1 Forum on the
internet, part of The Long Long Trail
Lost
Generation Ian Bowbrick's new WW1 Forum
World War One
Document Archive
The Great
War 1914-18
The Old Front Line
Hellfire Corner
The Battlefields of the Somme
Land Forces
of Britain, the Empire and the Commonwealth
The Vickers Machine Gun
First
World War.com
Digger History
GCSE Modern World History Revision Site
The
Battle of the Somme
The Heritage of the Great
War Idiosyncratic but interesting Dutch site
Battle of the
Somme Extraordinary graphic displays of the Battle
Battlefields of the Somme Tourist Board of La Somme official
site
Salientpoints
Trenches on the
Web
The
Great War
The Great War
Series
The Regimental Warpath 1914-18 Detailed Orders of Battle for
the British Army
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Local & Personal WW1 Web Sites
London
Front Line London Clive Harris's web site about London in the Great War and The Blitz
England
21st
Division 1914-18
6th Battalion Royal Berkshire Regiment
Carney:
East Yorkshire Regiment Family
Chailey
1914-1918 The story of Chailey, East Sussex and the two
voluntary hospitals there during the First World War.
Cheadle & Gatley War Memorials
Derbyshire Lads at War 1914-18 about the Sherwood Foresters
whose battalions suffered badly at Gommecourt
FAMILY & MILITARY
HISTORY Family and military history of the Spiller and
Phillips families,
MEN COULD DO NO MORE The Lonsdale Pals Battalion,
11th (Service)Battalion,Border Regiment, at the Battle of the
Somme
The
Great War Dedicated to Private George Joseph Hester, 10892,
2nd Bn., South Wales Borderers, Killed in Action 14th May 1915,
Aged 19, and Private Frederick Elson, MI/08939 Mechanical
Transport ASC. Died 10th July, 1917, Aged 24.
Tour of the
Somme Battlefields
Tyneside Scottish Brigade in the First World War
Harry's WW1
KYLES
WORLD WAR ONE HOMEPAGE
Northern Ireland
Battle of Albert
1 July 1916 plus history of the 12th Royal Irish Rifles
(Central Antrims)
Ballymena
1914-1918 website devoted to Ballymena and District in the
First World War.
South Belfast Friends of
the Somme Associaton
Belgium
Belgian Fronts Excellent site about Belgium in two World Wars
British Regimental and unit histories
56th (1st London) Division - Dudley Ward, Maj C A, The
Fifty Sixth Division 1914-1918, 1921
1/2nd London Regiment - Gray, Maj W E, 2nd City of London
Regiment (Royal Fusiliers) in the Great War, Headquarters of the
Regiment, 1929
1/4th London Regiment - Grimwade, Capt F Clive, The War
History of the 4th Battalion, The London Regiment (Royal
Fusiliers), Headquarters of the 4th London Regiment, 1922
1/5th London Regiment (London Rifle Brigade) - The
History of the London Rifle Brigade 1859-1919, Constable and Co.
1921
Mitchinson, K W, Gentlemen and Officers, Imperial War Museum
1995
The LRB Record - various years
1/9th London Regiment (Queen Victoria's Rifles) -
Keeson, Maj C A C, Queen Victoria's Rifles,1792-1922,
Constable and Co.1923
1/12th London Regiment (The Rangers) - Wheeler-Holohan,
Capt A V & Wyatt, Capt G M C Wyatt, The Rangers Historical
Records: From 1859 to the conclusion of the Great War, Harrisons
and Sons Ltd, 1921
1/13th London Regiment (Princess Louise's Kensington
Regiment) - Bailey, Sgt O F & Hollier, Sgt H M, 'The
Kensingtons', 13th London Regiment, Regimental Old Comrades
Association, 1936
1/14th London Regiment (London Scottish) - Lindsay, Lt
Col J H, The London Scottish in the Great War, Regimental
Headquarters, 1925
Lloyd, Mark, The London Scottish in the Great War, Pen and
Sword, 2001
The London Scottish Gazette - various years
1/16th London Regiment (Queen's Westminster Rifles) -
Henriques Maj J Q, The War History of the First Battalion,
Queen's Westminster Rifles 1914-1918, Medici Society 1923
1/7th Middlesex Regiment - King, Col E J, The History of
the 7th Battalion, Middlesex Regiment, Harrison and Sons,
1927
1/5th Cheshire Regiment (Earl of Chester's) -
Churton, Lt Col W A V, The War Record of the 1/5th (Earl of
Chester's) Battalion, The Cheshire Regiment August 1914-June
1919, Phillipson and Golder 1920
Royal Army Medical Corps - G Blair, Dr J S, 'In
Arduis Fidelis', Centenary History of the Royal Army Medical
Corps 1898-1998, Scottish Academic Press 1998.
The 2/1st London Field Ambulance, Morton, Burt and Sons,
1924
The Second-Seconds in France, Spottiswoode, Ballantyne and Co
Ltd., 1920
Atkinson, Arthur, 2/3rd City of London Field Ambulance 1914-18
London soldiers - unarmed comrades, privately published 1977.
Royal Artillery - Farndale, Gen. Sir Martin, History of
the Royal Regiment of Artillery, Western Front 1914-18, Royal
Artillery Institution, 1986
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Official accounts
Edmonds, Brig Gen Sir James E, Official History of the War:
Military Operations, France and Belgium 1916, Volume 1 and Maps
and Appendices
Somme Nord Vol 1, Reichsarchiv, Oldenburg 1927
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Personal
accounts
Bickersteth, John (editor), The Bickersteth Diaries Leo Cooper
1995
Dolden, A Stuart, Cannon Fodder, Blandford Press 1980
Hawkings Frank, From Ypres to Cambrai, The Elmfield Press
1973
Hodder, Williams J E (editor), One Young Man, Hodder and
Stoughton, 1917
Liveing Edward G, Attack, MacMillan 1918, republished by Strong
Oak Press 1986
Smith, A, Four Years on the Western Front, Naval and Military
Press 1999
Wolff, Anne, Subalterns of the Foot, Square One, 1992
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General
accounts
Cave, Nigel, Gommecourt, Battleground Europe Series, Pen and
Sword, 1998
Farrar-Hockley, Gen Sir A H, 'The Somme', B T Batsford
1966
Hart, Peter, The Somme, Weidenfeld and Nicholson, 2005
Keegan, John, The Face of Battle, Penguin, 1976.
Macdonald, Lyn, Somme, Michael Joseph 1983 and Papermac 1984
Middlebrook, Martin, The First Day on the Somme, Penguin
1971
Prior R & Wilson T, The Somme, Yale University Press,
2005
Sheffield, G, The Somme, Cassell, 2003
Sheldon, J, The German Army on the Somme 1914-16, Pen and Sword
2005
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Biographies and
Diaries
Boraston J.H., O.B.E., ed. Sir Douglas Haig's Despatches,
Dec. 1915 - Apr 1919. J. M. Dent; 1919
Duff Cooper, Haig, 1935
Gardner, Brian, Allenby, Cassell 1965
Home, Brig Gen Sir Archibald, The Diary of a World War One
Cavalry Officer, Costello, 1985
Lloyd George, David, War Memoirs, 1931
Prior R & Wilson T, Command on the Western Front: The
Military Career of Sir Henry Rawlinson 1914-18, Blackwell
Publishers 1992
Savage, R, Allenby of Armageddon, Bobbs-Merrill, 1926
Sheffield G & Bourne J, Douglas Haig, War Diaries and
Letters, Weidenfeld and Nicholson, 2005
Terraine, John, Haig: The Educated Soldier, Leo Cooper, 1990
Warner, Philp, Field Marshall Earl Haig, Bodley Head, 1991
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