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IN MEMORy by Pierre Vandervelden

The visit of Commonwealth War Cemeteries, Communals Cemeteries & Churchyards in Belgium & France

pierre.vandervelden@pi.be

Links (Open a new window):

OFFICIAL SITE : Commonwealth War Graves Commission

Research by name of casualty or cemetery.

CANADIAN VIRTUAL WAR MEMORIAL

This site contains a registry of information about the graves and memorials of more than 116,000 Canadians and Newfoundlanders who served valiantly and gave their lives for their country.

AUSTRALIAN WAR MEMORIAL

This site contains a registry of information about the graves and memorials of Australian casualties and some regimental diaries.

OFFICIAL SITE of research of

French casualties

"Creating a virtual Australian National War Grave Archive Web Site containing a digital photograph of every Australian War Grave and Memorial Commemoration of Armed Forces Personnel deceased through service of their country".
A voluntary project to build an online International War Memorial to Service Personnel from 1914 to the present day - including those killed in recent conflicts and peacekeeping operations. The photo archive is the largest of it's kind in the world.
The Maple Leaf Legacy Project is an enormous endeavour to procure a photograph of each and every Canadian War Grave from the South African War (1899-1902), World War 1 (1914-18), World War II (1939-45), Korean War (1950-52) and all United Nations Peacekeeping Missions to the present day.
To photograph and collect a pictorial record of New Zealand war graves and memorials both overseas and in New Zealand to commemorate those servicemen and women who gave their lives in the service of their country.
The goal of the South Africa War Graves Project is to archive photographs of every single South African & Rhodesian war grave from the 2nd Anglo-Boer War, WW1, WW2, Korea, Rand Revolt, Freedom Struggle, Angola-Border War to present day.
Discuss about topics more based on Canadian Expeditionary Force in Europe during WW1.
7000 members discuss on topics about WW1, find friends to help you if you search informations about a soldier, a regiment, a battlefield ...
A very complete site who can help you with this topics: Research a soldier | About the army | Battle histories | Battlefield touring | Soldier's life | Books | Links | Forum | Search
The Association aims to coordinate or create special events for commemoration ceremonies, develop exchanges at national and international level to be used to historical, cultural and pedagogical ends.
In memory to British Units of WW1: Monuments in Picardy and one of the most complete
gallery of british and commonwealth insignas found on headstones. (mainly in french).
World War One Batlefields - Information on visiting the battlefields of the Western Front plus contemporary and modern photographs.
Web site dedicated to the history and battlefields of the Great War 1914-1918. It aims to provide you with information about the war itself and on how to visit the battlefields in France and Flanders - and what to see.
Stannington Roll Of Honour - 1914-20, In Memory of those who gave their lives in World War One.
This site is dedicated to those men and women who fell fighting for their country. Recorded here are various war memorials within a variety of counties, it is fully intended to complete as many war memorials in the United Kingdom as possible.
A searchable database of military and personal information about the men of Buckinghamshire who lost their lives in World War I. Includes photographs of War memorials and some Casualties. Updated frequently.

More than 250 men of Mansfield Woodhouse, Nottinghamshire, gave their life during W.W.I., they are honoured here.

The North Manchester Battlefield Society

Steve Hoar and friends, visit the battlefields of W.W.I and W.W.II. They invite you to see the photographs on this website.

Who are the last survivors of WW1, country by country ?

Discover them on this French site.

 

A very Complete description of WW1 day by day, with a lot of maps and pictures.
Justice demands millennium pardons for those 306 innocent soldiers who were executed by the British Military Authorities for alleged cowardice and desertion during the First World War.

Photographs of all 940 Cemeteries of 40 burials and above that were featured in Sidney C. Hurst's 1929 book "The Silent Cities", and also Cemeteries with "Shot at Dawn" burials .

 

By Rob Ruggenberg

More than 500 Recommended Great War Websites

A work by a friend, Dwight G. Mercer

A lot of links about WW I and WW II websites
More than 700 links about WW1 in 14 topics (battlefields, WW1 organisations, diplomacy, military units, museums, ...)
Another website with a lot of links about WW1
 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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