World War 1 - 1914-1918. As this is such a large topic there are hundreds of websites listed here. To narrow down your search we recommend that you use the Keyword page.
Classification: | World War I, Discharge / Pension Records, Service Records |
Title: | British Army Service Records between 1760 and 1939 |
Link: | https://search.findmypast.co.uk/search-world-Records/british-army-service-records |
Description: | Find My Past's British Army Service Record between 1760 and 1939 |
Extra Info: | Service records from World War 1, from the WO 363 service records and WO 364 pension records. |
Classification: | Graves / Memorials / Roll of Honour, World War I, Pictures / Photographs |
Title: | A Street Near You - Exploring the Legacy of the First World War. |
Link: | https://astreetnearyou.org/#=undefined&lat=10&... |
Description: | Exploring the local legacy of the First World War, but at a global scale. |
Extra Info: | Mapping out the locations of WW1 casualties, showing the home locations. |
Classification: | Graves / Memorials / Roll of Honour, World War I, Boer Wars, Crimean War, Napoleonic Wars, Prisoners of War, Discharge / Pension Records |
Title: | Army Ancestry Research |
Link: | https://armyancestry.blogspot.com/ |
Description: | British Army research: tips, links and articles from a British military history expert. |
Classification: | RAF / RFC / RNAS, Navy, Army, Marines, World War I, World War II, Boer Wars, Crimean War, Napoleonic Wars, Other Battles / Wars / Conflicts, Medals / Awards |
Title: | Britain, Campaign, Gallantry & Long Service Medals & Awards |
Link: | Britain, Campaign, Gallantry & Long Service Medals & Awards from Find My Past |
Description: | Britain, Campaign, Gallantry & Long Service Medals & Awards |
Classification: | Army, World War I, Medals / Awards |
Title: | British Army WWI Medal Rolls Index Cards |
Link: | British Army WWI Medal Rolls Index Cards, 1914-1920 |
Description: | British Army WWI Medal Rolls Index Cards, 1914-1920 |
Classification: | Army, World War I, Discharge / Pension Records |
Title: | British Army WWI Pension Records |
Link: | British Army WWI Pension Records 1914-1920 |
Description: | British Army WWI Pension Records 1914-1920 |
Classification: | World War I, World War II, Boer Wars, Crimean War, Napoleonic Wars, Other Battles / Wars / Conflicts, Maps, Information |
Title: | British History Online |
Link: | https://www.british-history.ac.uk/ |
Description: | British History Online |
Extra Info: | A variety of records and documents relating to the medieval and modern history of the British Isles. |
Classification: | RAF / RFC / RNAS, Navy, Army, Marines, World War I, World War II, Boer Wars, Other Battles / Wars / Conflicts, Prisoners of War, Pictures / Photographs, Aircraft, Ships, Other Transport, Hospitals / Nursing, Academy / Training / Cadets, Information, Other |
Title: | British Pathe Film Archive |
Link: | https://www.britishpathe.com |
Description: | British Pathe Film Archive 1896-1970 |
Extra Info: | All sorts of social and military history on film. |
Classification: | Navy, World War I |
Title: | Crew Lists of the British Merchant Navy 1915 |
Link: | https://1915crewlists.rmg.co.uk/ |
Description: | Crew Lists of the British Merchant Navy 1915 |
Extra Info: | Search by name or vessel. |
Classification: | Army, World War I, World War II |
Title: | Find My Past's The Military Collection |
Link: | Find My Past's Military, armed forces & conflict |
Description: | Find My Past's The Military Collection |
Extra Info: | An extensive military collection to help you to locate your ancestors who served in World War One and World War Two. |
Classification: | Graves / Memorials / Roll of Honour, World War I, Discharge / Pension Records, Officers' Records, Service Records, Muster / Militia Rolls, Medals / Awards |
Title: | Fold3's UK World War 1 Records |
Link: | http://www.tkqlhce.com/click-1363683-10934994?url=... |
Description: | Fold3's UK World War 1 Records main page. |
Extra Info: | Ancestry's military history companion website with over 31 Million records. |
Classification: | Graves / Memorials / Roll of Honour, World War I, World War II, Boer Wars, Crimean War |
Title: | Geograph Britain and Ireland |
Link: | http://www.geograph.org.uk/ |
Description: | Geograph Britain and Ireland |
Extra Info: | The project aims to collect geographically representative photographs and information for every square kilometre of Great Britain and Ireland. Use the search to find 'war memorials' for your area. |
Classification: | RAF / RFC / RNAS, Navy, Army, Marines, World War I, World War II, Boer Wars, Other Battles / Wars / Conflicts, Prisoners of War, Pictures / Photographs, Aircraft, Ships, Newspapers |
Title: | Guardian Newspaper |
Link: | https://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/jul/31/-sp-... |
Description: | Guardian Newspaper - How it Covered the Last Century |
Extra Info: | The newspaper articles cover the period 1899-1999. |
Classification: | Graves / Memorials / Roll of Honour, Army, World War I, World War II, Boer Wars, Crimean War, Napoleonic Wars, Other Battles / Wars / Conflicts, Pictures / Photographs |
Title: | Mary Evans Picture Library |
Link: | https://www.maryevans.com/ |
Description: | Mary Evans Picture Library |
Extra Info: | Over 2 million historical and cinema images. Easy to search - can limit by type of photograph and century. Includes pictures of war memorials, wars, ships, tanks, soldiers and much more. |
Classification: | Graves / Memorials / Roll of Honour, World War I |
Title: | Masonic Great War Project |
Link: | https://www.masonicgreatwarproject.org.uk/ |
Description: | Masonic Great War Project |
Extra Info: | A searchable database purely on Freemasons who took part in and died in the course of their duty during the Great War of 1914-1918. |
Classification: | RAF / RFC / RNAS, Army, World War I, World War II, Napoleonic Wars, Service Records, Hospitals / Nursing, Medals / Awards, Other |
Title: | National Archives - Online Army Records and Indexes |
Link: | https://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/help-with-your... |
Description: | National Archives - Online Army Records and Indexes |
Extra Info: | Includes army campaign medals from WWI, service records for Women's Army Auxiliary Corps, prisoners of war reports and interviews and much more. |
Classification: | Navy, Marines, World War I, World War II, Service Records, Ships, Medals / Awards, Diaries / Log Books / Letters |
Title: | National Archives - Online Navy Records and Indexes |
Link: | https://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/help-with-your... |
Description: | National Archives - Online Navy Records and Indexes |
Extra Info: | Includes navy and marine service records, medals awarded and much more. |
Classification: | RAF / RFC / RNAS, World War I, World War II, Service Records, Medals / Awards |
Title: | National Archives - Online RAF Records and Indexes |
Link: | https://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/help-with-your... |
Description: | National Archives - Online RAF Records and Indexes |
Extra Info: | Includes RAF service records, air combat reports, medal index cards and much more. |
Classification: | RAF / RFC / RNAS, Army, World War I, World War II, Napoleonic Wars, Service Records, Hospitals / Nursing, Medals / Awards, Information, Other |
Title: | National Archives - Online Records and Indexes |
Link: | https://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/help-with-your... |
Description: | National Archives - Online Records and Indexes (UK) |
Extra Info: | Includes army, navy, air force, marines, merchant seamen and more. Many detailed records require payment. |
Classification: | RAF / RFC / RNAS, Navy, Army, Marines, World War I, World War II, Other Battles / Wars / Conflicts, Other |
Title: | National Archives - Selected Cabinet Papers |
Link: | https://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/cabinetpapers/ |
Description: | National Archives - Selected Cabinet Papers 1915-1979 |
Extra Info: | Collection of cabinet papers, covering topics such as Ireland's independence, world war one, the cold war, marriage allowances in the Navy and much more. |
Classification: | World War I, Medals / Awards |
Title: | National Archives - WWI British Army Medal Index |
Link: | https://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/help-with-your... |
Description: | National Archives - WWI British Army Medal Index 1914-1920 |
Extra Info: | Record medals that men and women who served in the First World War were entitled to claim. Scroll down for free search, but pay to view medal cards. |
Classification: | World War I, Medals / Awards |
Title: | National Archives - WWI Merchant Seamen's Medals |
Link: | https://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/help-with-your... |
Description: | National Archives - WWI Merchant Seamen's Medals |
Extra Info: | Scroll down the page. Campaign medals issues to merchant seamen in world war one. Free to search, but pay to view medal cards. |
Classification: | World War I, Medals / Awards |
Title: | National Archives - WWII Merchant Seamen's Medals |
Link: | https://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/help-with-your... |
Description: | National Archives - WWII Merchant Seamen's Medals |
Extra Info: | Campaign medals issues to merchant seamen in world war two. Free to search, but pay to view medal cards. |
Classification: | RAF / RFC / RNAS, World War I, World War II, Aircraft, Ships, Newspapers |
Title: | Newspapers Online via Google |
Link: | https://news.google.com/newspapers |
Description: | Newspapers Online via Google |
Extra Info: | Many newspapers are being put online. Currently there are only a handful from the UK and Ireland, but this is growing. Many newspapers from USA and Canada that mention British ships and British events. |
Classification: | Graves / Memorials / Roll of Honour, RAF / RFC / RNAS, Navy, Army, World War I, World War II, Boer Wars, Crimean War, Napoleonic Wars, Other Battles / Wars / Conflicts |
Title: | Officers Died Website |
Link: | https://glosters.tripod.com/memindex3.htm |
Description: | Officers Died Website |
Extra Info: | Includes many different battles, but includes specific details of the Gloucester Regiment in WWI and WWII. |
Classification: | RAF / RFC / RNAS, Navy, Army, Marines, World War I, World War II, Boer Wars, Crimean War, Napoleonic Wars, Other Battles / Wars / Conflicts, Prisoners of War, Ships, Diaries / Log Books / Letters, Information, Other |
Title: | Open Library |
Link: | http://openlibrary.org/ |
Description: | Open Library - Scanned Books Online |
Extra Info: | Use the search facility and select e books only. Can also search within book text easily. Includes many books about all aspects of British Military History. Includes lots of accounts of voyagers of exploration by naval ships. |
Classification: | Graves / Memorials / Roll of Honour, World War I |
Title: | PINCKNEY - The site for all UK PINCKNEYs |
Link: | http://www.john-pinckney.co.uk/family/index.htm |
Description: | PINCKNEY - The site for all UK PINCKNEYs and Variants |
Extra Info: | Includes PINCKNEY's in WW1, with some biographies. |
Classification: | World War I, Hospitals / Nursing |
Title: | Red Cross Volunteers of the First World War |
Link: | https://vad.redcross.org.uk/ |
Description: | Red Cross Volunteers of the First World War |
Extra Info: | Over 90,000 people volunteered for the British Red Cross at home and overseas during the war. More names still to add. |
Classification: | Graves / Memorials / Roll of Honour, RAF / RFC / RNAS, Marines, World War I |
Title: | Royal Naval Division Records 1914-1920 |
Link: | Royal Naval Division Records 1914-1920 from Find My Past |
Description: | Royal Naval Division Records 1914-1920 |
Extra Info: | Includes the The Jack Clegg memorial database of Royal Naval Division casualties of the Great War. |
Classification: | Graves / Memorials / Roll of Honour, RAF / RFC / RNAS, Navy, Army, World War I, World War II, Boer Wars, Crimean War, Other Battles / Wars / Conflicts, Prisoners of War, Pictures / Photographs, Aircraft, Ships, Other Transport, Diaries / Log Books / Letters |
Title: | Science and Society Picture Library |
Link: | https://www.scienceandsociety.co.uk |
Description: | Science and Society Picture Library |
Extra Info: | Over 50,000 images including many images of war, poster campaigns, letters from the wars and more. |
Classification: | Graves / Memorials / Roll of Honour, Army, World War I |
Title: | Soldiers who Died in the Great War 1914-1919 |
Link: | Soldiers who Died in the Great War 1914-1919 |
Description: | Soldiers who Died in the Great War 1914-1919 |
Extra Info: | Includes Officers Died. |
Classification: | Graves / Memorials / Roll of Honour, RAF / RFC / RNAS, Navy, Army, World War I, World War II, Boer Wars, Crimean War, Other Battles / Wars / Conflicts |
Title: | Soldiers' Memorials Website |
Link: | https://www.angelfire.com/mp/memorials/memindz1.ht... |
Description: | Soldiers' Memorials Website |
Extra Info: | Includes some memorials by conflict and some by regiment. |
Classification: | Graves / Memorials / Roll of Honour, Army, World War I, Pictures / Photographs, Diaries / Log Books / Letters |
Title: | The Channel Islands and the Great War |
Link: | http://www.greatwarci.net/index.htm |
Description: | The Channel Islands and the Great War |
Extra Info: | Includes rolls of honour, letters written during WWI, how the war affected the islands, a guide to the medals of WWI and more. |
Classification: | Graves / Memorials / Roll of Honour, World War I, World War II, Boer Wars, Crimean War, Other Battles / Wars / Conflicts, Ships, Other Transport |
Title: | The Roll of Honour |
Link: | http://www.roll-of-honour.com/ |
Description: | The Roll of Honour - Lest We Forget |
Extra Info: | As well as the main rolls of honour the site includes an overview of the Somme, information about tanks and submarines in WWI and much more. |
Classification: | Graves / Memorials / Roll of Honour, World War I, World War II, Boer Wars, Crimean War, Napoleonic Wars, Other Battles / Wars / Conflicts |
Title: | UK National Inventory of War Memorials |
Link: | https://www.iwm.org.uk/memorials/search?utm_source... |
Description: | UK National Inventory of War Memorials |
Extra Info: | This site does not list every person mentioned on the memorials, however it does list individual memorials with details and sometimes photographs. |
Classification: | Graves / Memorials / Roll of Honour, World War I |
Title: | University - Aberdeen University Roll of Service 1914-1919 |
Link: | https://archive.org/details/rollofserviceing1921un... |
Description: | Aberdeen University Roll of Service 1914-1919 |
Extra Info: | Online book. This book records the service and staff of staff, graduates, alumni and students during WW1. |
Classification: | Graves / Memorials / Roll of Honour, World War I |
Title: | University - Durham University - Roll of Service |
Link: | https://archive.org/details/rollofservice19100univ |
Description: | University of Durham - Roll of Service 1914-1919 |
Extra Info: | Online book. Staff, graduates and students. List of all those in service and those who gave their lives. Biographies in abbreviated form, but index to abbreviations at front of book. |
Classification: | Graves / Memorials / Roll of Honour, World War I |
Title: | University - Edinburgh University - Roll of Honour |
Link: | https://archive.org/details/rollofhonour191400univ... |
Description: | University of Edinburgh - Roll of Honour 1914-1919 |
Extra Info: | Online book. Includes those fallen, but also a roll of service. Mini biographies and many photographs. |
Classification: | Graves / Memorials / Roll of Honour, World War I |
Title: | University - Edinburgh University - Roll of Honour |
Link: | https://archive.org/details/newyear1915rollo1914un... |
Description: | University of Edinburgh - Roll of Honour 1914 |
Extra Info: | Online book. Includes those fallen, a roll of service, a list of those wounded, staff and students. |
Classification: | Graves / Memorials / Roll of Honour, World War I |
Title: | University - Manchester University - Roll of Service |
Link: | http://archive.org/details/manchesteruniver00univr... |
Description: | Manchester University - Roll of Service for WWI |
Extra Info: | Online book. Lists all the graduates of Manchester University who served in world war one, including some family and regimental details. |
Classification: | Graves / Memorials / Roll of Honour, World War I |
Title: | University - Oxford University - Roll of Service |
Link: | https://archive.org/details/oxforduniversity00univ... |
Description: | Oxford University - Roll of Service 1914-1919 |
Extra Info: | Online book. Graduates and students, by college. List of all those in service and those who gave their lives. Mini biographies. |
Classification: | Graves / Memorials / Roll of Honour, World War I, World War II |
Title: | University of Glasgow Story |
Link: | https://www.gla.ac.uk/events/ww1/ |
Description: | University of Glasgow Story |
Extra Info: | Includes all members of the university community who served in WWI, those who served and fell in WWII, many with biographies and more. |
Classification: | Graves / Memorials / Roll of Honour, Army, World War I |
Title: | University of London - Officers Training Corp - Roll of Service |
Link: | https://archive.org/details/rollofwarservice00grea |
Description: | University of London - Officers Training Corp - Roll of Service 1914-1919 |
Extra Info: | Online book. Lists the war service and biography for each name. Also lists the fallen and those who were awarded honours. |
Classification: | Graves / Memorials / Roll of Honour, World War I |
Title: | University of Sheffield - Roll of Service |
Link: | https://archive.org/details/rollofservic19100univ |
Description: | University of Sheffield - Roll of Service 1914-15-16 |
Extra Info: | Online book. Published Jan 1916. Staff, graduates and students who served. Rank and unit for each name.Includes evening students, lab assistants, officer training corp and more. |
Classification: | Graves / Memorials / Roll of Honour, World War I |
Title: | University of St. Andrews - Roll of Honour and Roll of Service |
Link: | https://archive.org/details/rollofhonourroll1920un... |
Description: | University of St. Andrews - Roll of Honour and Roll of Service 1914-1919 |
Extra Info: | Online book. Biographies and photographs of the fallen, biographies for those on the roll of service. |
Classification: | Graves / Memorials / Roll of Honour, World War I, World War II |
Title: | War Memorials Online |
Link: | https://www.warmemorialsonline.org.uk/ |
Description: | War Memorials Online - Recording, Conserving and Remembering our war memorials |
Extra Info: | War Memorials Online is an unprecedented opportunity for the public to upload images of war memorials and log concerns for the conservation of these important community and historical sources for future generations. |
Classification: | World War I, Hospitals / Nursing |
Title: | Wartime Memories Project - World War One |
Link: | https://wartimememoriesproject.com/greatwar/ |
Description: | Wartime Memories Project - World War One |
Extra Info: | The aim of this website is to share stories, photographs and documents relating to the Great War of 1914 to 1918. Including location of regiments and battalions, names of those serving and more. More information being added frequently. |
Classification: | World War I, World War II, Boer Wars, Crimean War, Napoleonic Wars, Other Battles / Wars / Conflicts, Prisoners of War, Pictures / Photographs, Diaries / Log Books / Letters, Information |
Title: | Wellcome Collection - Images of 2000 years |
Link: | https://wellcomecollection.org/search/works |
Description: | Wellcome Collection - Images of 2000 years |
Extra Info: | Many images of war, including images of Christmas postcards send during WWI. Can be downloaded or printed for a fee. |
Classification: | Graves / Memorials / Roll of Honour, World War I, Discharge / Pension Records |
Title: | World War 1 Veterans 1914-1918 |
Link: | https://worldwar1veterans.blogspot.com/ |
Description: | World War 1 Veterans 1914-1918 - old soldier memories, interviews and much more. |
Classification: | Graves / Memorials / Roll of Honour, RAF / RFC / RNAS, Navy, Army, Marines, World War I, World War II, Boer Wars, Crimean War, Napoleonic Wars, Other Battles / Wars / Conflicts, Prisoners of War, Discharge / Pension Records, Officers' Records, Service Records, Pictures / Photographs, Aircraft, Ships, Other Transport, Hospitals / Nursing, Academy / Training / Cadets, Muster / Militia Rolls, Medals / Awards, Uniforms / Badges, Diaries / Log Books / Letters, Newspapers, Maps, Information, Other |
Title: | Wikipedia - the free encyclopedia |
Link: | http://en.wikipedia.org/ |
Description: | Wikipedia - the free encyclopedia |
Extra Info: | Comprehensive general reference for most military topics. Use its search box to find your areas of interest. |
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