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Archives, Armies, Portals
Discovering Anzacs
April 26, 2017 Digital 1418
The digital portal Discovering Anzacs is the fruit of cooperation between the National Archives of Australia and the Archives of New Zealand. The portal brings together government archival records concerning the participation of soldiers from Australia and New Zealand during the First World War, in particular at Gallipoli, and also in the Boer War in South Africa. You can browse records, read group stories, follow the timelines or look for particular locations using an interactive map. The image gallery contains photographs stemming from a crowdsourcing action. With the advanced search mode you can tune your search questions. Under Learn you will find educational resources.
At the Anzac Portal you can find more links to websites and portals about the Anzacs.
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Armies, Portals
Gallipoli – Century Ireland
January 11, 2017 Digital 1418
The digital collection Gallipoli – Century Ireland is part of the Century Ireland project of RTE, the Irish radio and television. This project concerning the Irish involvement in the First World War focuses on the Irish soldiers serving in the expedition to Gallipoli. In the collection you will find maps, aerial photographs and galleries with photos, drawings, works of art and posters. There are entries from regimental diaries and eyewitness accounts. The guides lead you to themes such as the home front, decorations for courageous actions, remembrance, the role of the Royal Navy and the Turkish army. There are also are interviews with historians, videos and films. Educational resources are also presented in this collection, and there is a section with a bibliography and links to relevant websites.
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Topical Sketches by Douglas G. Ward
May 10, 2014 Digital 1418
The digital collection Topical Sketches by Douglas G. Ward has been created as a part of the Digital Collections of the University of South Carolina Libraries. With six other digital collection it belongs to the Joseph M. Bruccoli Great War Collection. These collections are listed also at the South Carolina Digital Library. Corporal Douglas G. Ward served with the South Staffordshire Regiment. He took part in the landings at Gallipoli in 1915. In 1916 he served at the Somme. He got wounded and was transferred to India. His sketchbook made in ink and pen and watercolour contains 65 drawings on many subjects, for example his training at an infantry camp, A number of drawings are clearly cartoons.There are some brief notices, too. You can browse the entire sketchbook and use thumbnail images to accelerate browsing.
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Australian Screen: First World War
The digital collection Australian Screen: First World War is a selection at Australian Screen, the online portal of Australia's National Film and Sound Archive, Canberra. In this collection with nearly sixty items you will find newsreels from the Australasian Gazette collection, movies created during the First World War, and movies and TV series created afterwards concerning the First World War. The films have been made in various countries, mainly France, Egypt and Turkey. The Australasian Gazette items from the period 1914-1918 feature mainly cartoons.
At Australia Screen movies from the First World War are also presented in the collection Australian War Memorial Western Front and Gallipoli on Film, both of them with introductory essays by Paul Byrnes. The footage of the 1915 films about Gallipoli dominates the image of the Australian forces and Gallipoli, but these movies were not made at the Dardanelles front.
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March 17, 2014 Digital 1418
The website of the Campaign Atlas to the Great War has been created by the History Department of the United States Military Academy West Point. The website presents some fifty maps of the various fronts in Europe and the Middle East. There are no maps concerning military campaigns in Africa. Some twenty-five maps can be downloaded as PDF's. A chart explains the use of symbols on the maps. This website can only be viewed in English.
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World War I Maps & Aerial Photography
The digital collection World War I Maps & Aerial Photography is an initiative of the McMaster University, Hamilton, Ontario. The collection contains some 400 maps of the fronts in France and Belgium, most of them made by the British Ordnance Survey, including trench maps. The scales of most maps are 1:10,000, 1:20,000 and 1:40,000. In a second part of this section, Other theatres of war, you can find maps for Europe, the Middle East, Africa and Russia. The second section of the digital collection is formed by some 500 aerial photographs, most of them taken in 1917 and 1918 by the Royal Air Force. In the section References & Links you will find some titles of relevant literature and some links to other websites with maps concerning the First World War. A number of case studies help using the maps and photographs.
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February 25, 2014 Digital 1418
The website Gallipoli has been created by Julien Snelders. He treats many aspects of the expedition to the Dardanelles in 1915. Among the interesting features are a Gallipollian-English dictionary and a Turkish-English list of place names. The website contains also a list with further relevant websites, links to digitized books about Gallipoli, and a useful list of digitized diaries of people involved with the Gallipoli expedition.
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Vojaške žrtve 1. svetovne vojne na Slovenskem
Tracing the Belgian refugees
Transcribathon Europeana 1914-1918
(Ex-)keizer Wilhelm II
Les gueules cassées 1914-1918
Feldpost aus dem Ersten Weltkrieg
Der Erste Weltkrieg in Selbstzeugnissen
Affiches de guerre
La collection photographique "Marcel Chatenay" (1914-1918)
Eestlased Esimeses maailmasõjas
Audiovisual material
Habsburg Empire
Parliamentary papers
Revolts
Digital projects around the First World War
Lieux de mémoire
Study centers
1914-1818: Ein rheinisches Tagebuch – Quellen aus Archiven des Rheinlands
1914: Mitten in Europa – Das Rheinland und der Erste Weltkrieg
Africa and the First World War
BCU 1914-1918 – Bibliothèque Clermont Université
Genre et Guerre – Gender and War
Great War London – London and Londoners in the First World War
La Grande Guerre – A Global History of World War I
My Great War – Mijn Groote Oorlog – Lea Winkeler
Schreiben vom Krieg: Feldpost im Ersten Weltkrieg
Sources de la Grande Guerre – Michaël Bourlet et Gwladys Longeard
Vascik's Great War – Teaching the First World War
WW1 Revisited – A Great War Journey with Paul Reed
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