Online information
Commonwealth War Graves Commission – great search facility as well as a limited range of books, and good information about specific battles
United Kingdom National Inventory of War Memorials and the War Memorials Trust - tons of information; first stop if you’re researching memorials
Western Front Association - online help and local groups to join
Times Archive Blog – interesting bits of information
Ancestry - free to search, monthly or annual charge for full membership. Create or upload a tree. Shows “hints” to help you add people to your tree. Good selection of military records available
Genes reunited – free to sign up, annual charge for full membership, so you can view other people’s trees. Easy to use tree that you can import/export files to/from
World War message board- wonderful resource, hosted by Alan, who seems to answer most queries himself – oodles of information; highly recommended!
Rootschat – free to register, really helpful people, there’s a good armed forces forum as well as the regular genealogy ones
Family tree service – has a military index as well as regular family history
Military History Encyclopaedia on the web - all sorts here; you can look up specific battles, too
Military and Peacekeeping archives of Canada - loads of information and pictures. Very useful
Canada and the Great War – good links, pictures and information
BBC World Wars pages and BBC world war 1 page - newspapers, specific battles etc
Open2.net – BBC in collaboration with the Open University.
Spartacus - First world War index
Imperial War Museum - with links to IWM sites nationwide
Army Museums Ogilby Trust – covers 136 army museums across the UK
Veterans-UK – anything relating to UK service veterans; you can also download a form to request a serviceman’s records
Royal Artillery Museum – has good research library
Army lists – all sorts on here, from cap badges to military reviews
National Archives – where you can find just about anything archived!
Lost Medals – where you can sell or buy medals. Free listing
Remembrance links
Lady Haig Poppy Factory – based in Scotland. Facility to purchase poppy wreaths etc. available
Royal British Legion Poppy Factory - English equivalent to the Lady Haig factory
Royal British Legion - what the legion is, what they do, message board, how to help etc.
Supporting our troops today
SOS and Help4Heroes – don’t forget today’s soldiers
Trips and pilgrimages
Battlefield Tours by the War Research Society – HIGHLYrecommended tours, very informative, helpful couriers. Happy to take you to visit specific graves, as long as you agree it when you book. I blame them for my new obsession with WW1!!
Battlefield tours - I haven’t used these people, but they also loo like specialists
National Memorial Arboretum – good introduction to the arboretum, shows opening times, facilities, charges etc.
Books
Naval & Military Press – fabulous range of naval and military titles
ABEbooks – great for tracking down out of print and difficult to find titles
Amazon – great range of books, including military history
War Poetry
Video on line
Vimy Ridge part 1, part 2, part 3, part 4, part 5, part 6, part 7, part 8, part 9, part 10.
