Borden Battery Posted 8 December , 2008 Author Share Posted 8 December , 2008 Great War Poetry - Part 29 Note: CEF Study Group member websites denoted with asterisk "*" ============================================== War Poets Association This page contains some links to other websites, mainly to single poet societies, which will be of interest to members of the War Poets Association and other users of this site. Please note that the WPA is not responsible for the content of these external websites. Many of these links may be repeated on other pages of this site, for example links to single poet societies from the page for that individual poet. The WPA welcomes links to its home page or other pages from relevant quality websites. Please e-mail editor@warpoets.org if you would like us to provide a link to your website. [Recommendation by marina - GWF][CEF Study Group – Dec 2006] http://www.warpoets.org/links/ Modern History Sourcebook: World War I Poetry This simple website contains some poems by Sassoon, Owen, Read, Hodgson, Gibson and Larkin. [Recommendation by marina - GWF][CEF Study Group – Dec 2006] http://www.fordham.edu/halsall/mod/1914warpoets.html Prose & Poetry - FirstworldWar.com An extensive summary of a wide range of Great War poets with biographies and sample poems. [Recommendation by marina - GWF][CEF Study Group – Dec 2006] http://www.firstworldwar.com/poetsandprose/index.htm Archive of Classic Poems A small website with poems by Wilfred Owen. There are several links to other poetry websites. [Recommendation by marina - GWF][CEF Study Group – Dec 2006] http://www.everypoet.com/Archive/Poetry/Wi...en_contents.htm Where Death Becomes Absurd and Life Absurder Literary Views of the Great War 1914-1918 A literary discussion paper from Bonn University regarding Great War poetry. [Recommendation by marina - GWF][CEF Study Group – Dec 2006] http://www.uni-erfurt.de/eestudies/eese/ar...ges/thegr68.htm More World War One War Poetry This simple website contains about thirty poems from the Great War. [Recommendation by marina - GWF][CEF Study Group – Dec 2006] http://www.angelfire.com/wa/warpoetry/Ww1poetry.html 120 War Poems by War From wars of the last century, for students of literature and history. Edited by C. Stevin and V. Bergmann [Recommendation by marina - GWF][CEF Study Group – Dec 2006] http://website.lineone.net/~nusquam/wpmain.htm Lost Poets of the Great War Harry Rusche (English Department, Emory University) is the author of Lost Poets of the Great War, a hypertext document on the poetry of World War I. This website contains short biographies and poems of the following “Lost Poets” from the Great War: Rupert Brooke, John McCrae, Wilfred Owen, Issac Rosenberg, Alan Seeger and Edward Thomas .[CEF Study Group – Sept 2006] http://www.english.emory.edu/LostPoets/index.html The War Poets of Craiglockhart The present Craiglockhart campus of Napier University in Edinburgh was built as a hydropathic hotel. It was requisitioned by the British army in October 1916 as a hospital for officers suffering from psychological trauma. Biographical information is provided on Siegfried Sassoon, Wilfred Owen and Robert Graves. The site also contains other information and links to further poetry websites. [Recommendation by marina - GWF][CEF Study Group – Dec 2006] http://sites.scran.ac.uk/Warp/siegfried_sassoon.htm Remembrance – bbc.co.ca The First World War produced some of the most gifted and progressive authors, poets and artists of a generation, each channelling their individual and collective experiences into their chosen art form. [CEF Study Group – Dec 2006] http://www.bbc.co.uk/religion/remembrance/poetry/wwone.shtml Poets of the Great War This website generally contains a biography and some representative poems for the following: Richard Aldington, Laurence Binyon, Edmund Blunden, Rupert Brooke, Wilfrid Gibson, Robert Graves, Julian Grenfell, Ivor Gurney, David Jones, Robert Nichols, Wilfred Owen, Herbert Read, Isaac Rosenberg, Siegfried Sassoon, Charles Sorley and Edward Thoma [CEF Study Group – Dec 2006] http://www.lib.byu.edu/~english/WWI/poets/poets.html Legends and Traditions of the Great War A selected anthology by the Great War Society. [CEF Study Group – Dec 2006] http://www.worldwar1.com/heritage/wpoets.htm Poems of the Great War “The Great War 1914-1918 began as a resource for courses in World War I poetry, a topic now taught in a number of universities. The site has since grown to be of interest to anyone studying World War I. Several years ago Woodruff Library of Emory University purchased fifty volumes of poetry written between 1914 and 1918; none of these books went into second editions, so they are now rather difficult to find except in specialized collections. The Beck Center of Woodruff Library is putting these volumes and others, beginning with the poetry by women, on line as e-texts, thus making available an interesting collection of poetry from a time that witnessed an unparalleled outpouring of war poetry by the men fighting in the trenches, by the poets at home trying to raise the morale of the troops, and by the women who could do little else but volunteer as aids or wait anxiously at home for their sons, husbands, and lovers. The poems are the heart of the site, and readers will appreciate being able to search the poetry by volume, title, author, and even individual lines and words.” [CEF Study Group – Dec 2006] http://beck.library.emory.edu/greatwar/poe...id=Cunliffe.xml Oxford’s English Faculty - The Seminars [Recommendation by Dragon aka Gwyn - GWF][CEF Study Group – Dec 2006] http://www.oucs.ox.ac.uk/ltg/projects/jtap...ials/index.html Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Borden Battery Posted 8 December , 2008 Author Share Posted 8 December , 2008 Great War Academic - Part 30 Note: CEF Study Group member websites denoted with asterisk "*" ============================================== Oxford University - Virtual Seminars for Teaching Literature This site includes a complete run of The Hydra (the Journal of the Patients at the Craglockhart War Hospital), plus all of Wilfred Owen's poetry manuscripts. Also includes interviews with war veterans, photographs, letters, a First World War poetry discussion board, as well as the lyrics of a number of songs (unedited) that were sung in the trenches. [CEF Study Group - Jan 2006] http://www.oucs.ox.ac.uk/ltg/projects/jtap/ International Society for First World War Studies – Discussion List This University of Lyon academic discussion list is dedicated to the history of the First World War and managed by the International Society for First World War studies. If you wish to join this academic Society and to be added to the discussion list you must apply via the website stating your name, institution and research themes. [CEF Study Group - Jan 2007] http://mel-iep.univ-lyon2.fr/wws/info/wwi-studies Ernst Jünger in Cyberspace The webmaster John King created the "Ernst Jünger in Cyberspace" website in 1995 just after beginning postgraduate studies at St. John's College, Oxford to establish corroborative evidence regarding the veracity of Jünger's statements in his books. This intelligent website provides the following features: introduction, biography, bibliography, the author's doctoral thesis on the subject, selected materials from the Great War, essays, criticisms and other resources. [CEF Study Group - July 2006] http://www.juenger.org/contents.php Sassoon on the Somme This simple website provides a virtual tour with an account in both words and pictures of the military travels of Siegfried Sassoon on the Somme. The site outlines his military career and a brief highlight of how he interacted with Robert Graves. [CEF Study Group - July 2006] http://www.1914-18.co.uk/sassoon Camp Hughes Under Threat - Archaeological Protection Plan Camp Hughes (formerly Camp Sewell, circa 1910) near Brandon, Manitoba (not to be confused with Camp Shilo) was utilized to train over 40,000 men for the CEF in the Great War. This 2004 document is a William Galbraith master's thesis [227 pages] from the University of Manitoba. It provides some excellent background, historic and modern photographs including aerial, maps and detailed discussions regarding the preservation of this unique historic Canadian military training base in western Manitoba. [A Broznitsky Recommendation][CEF Study Group - Feb 2006] http://www.umanitoba.ca/institutes/natural...esis%202004.pdf “Moral Economy” - Theoretical Model to Explain Protests in the CEF 1914 – 1919 This 2004 Craig L. Mantle thesis [72 pages] presents a discussion regarding the behaviour of CEF soldiers under a number of situations from the Great War and their responses. [A Richard Laughton Recommendation][CEF Study Group - Feb 2006] http://www.cda-acd.forces.gc.ca/cfli/engra...arch/pdf/79.pdf The Kinmel Park Mutiny of March 4/5, 1919 . (CFLI Contract Research Report #CR02-0623). Kingston, ON: Canadian Forces Leadership Institute. Coombs, H. (2003). [CEF Study Group] http://www.cda-acd.forces.gc.ca/CFLI/engra...arch/pdf/40.pdf Historical Leadership Project completed annotations . (CFLI Contract Research Report #CR02-0013). Kingston, ON: Canadian Forces Leadership Institute. Mantle, C. (2003). [CEF Study Group] http://www.cda-acd.forces.gc.ca/CFLI/engra...arch/pdf/44.pdf For bully and biscuits: Charges of mutiny in the 43rd Battalion, Canadian Expeditionary Force, November and December 1917. (CFLI Contract Research Report #CR04-0033). Kingston, ON: Canadian Forces Leadership Institute. Mantle, C. (2004). [CEF Study Group] http://www.cda-acd.forces.gc.ca/CFLI/engra...arch/pdf/80.pdf Interplay between Technology, Tactics and Organization in the First AIF MA (Hons) Thesis, Australian Defence Force Academy, 1999 The Australian perspective looks at progress of tactical, technological and organizational developments that ultimately supplied the solutions to trench warfare but how new technologies and military thinking were introduced and developed. The thesis chapters include: Going to War, Gallipoli, The Western Front, Semi Open Warfare, Messines and Third Ypres, Sinai and Palestine, The German Offensives and The Final Offensives. [Note: Sections which discuss the Canadian Engineers][CEF Study Group - April 2006] http://www.unsw.adfa.edu.au/~rmallett/Thesis/ Polished leathers and gleaming steel: Charges of mutiny in the Canadian Army Service Corps at Bramshott Camp, England, November 1917. (CFLI Contract Research Report #CR04-0033). Kingston, ON: Canadian Forces Leadership Institute. Mantle, C. (2004). [CEF Study Group] http://www.cda-acd.forces.gc.ca/CFLI/engra...arch/pdf/83.pdf Keeping up with the Jones's: Admiralship, culture, and careerism in the Royal Canadian Navy, 1911-1946. (CFLI Contract Research Report #CR02-0004). Kingston, ON: Canadian Forces Leadership Institute. Mayne, R.O. (2002). [CEF Study Group] http://www.cda-acd.forces.gc.ca/CFLI/engra...arch/pdf/10.pdf Harvesting the “Red Vineyard” Catholic Religious Culture in the Canadian Expeditionary Force, 1914-1919 CCHA, Historical Studies, 64 (1998), 47-70 This website contains a candid research article on the role, actions and challenges of Catholic priests and their parishioners in the Canadian Expeditionary Force. It is heavily footnoted and contains three appendices with some rare statistical information.[Recommendation by Canal du Nord][CEF Study Group - June 2006] http://www.umanitoba.ca/colleges/st_pauls/...998/McGowan.htm Military History Encyclopedia on the Web This extensive website is a broad encyclopedia of military history and background including some material on the Great War – the categories are too numerous to list – however, the reader is encouraged to make note of this website for quick references. Although not specific to the Great War, there is a great deal of quality background information of use to any student of military history. The authors of this website all have strong backgrounds on this topic area and the site exhibits every indication it will be continually expanded. [A Peter Antill, Tristan Dugdale-Pointon and John Rickard website}[CEF Study Group – Sept 06] http://www.historyofwar.org/main.html German Policy in Occupied Belgium, 1914-1918 by David Menichetti Published Corcoran Department of History at the U. of Virginia. This paper was originally written as an undergraduate senior thesis, based on sources available in Alderman Library at the University of Virginia. Abstract: Only via Belgium into Northern France is there a level pathway, clear of obstacles, of imposing breadth for most of the distance, and laced with every facility for the rapid deployment and continuing supply of large military forces. Highways, railroads and canals all stream in the decisive direction.[Recommendation by GrandsonMichael][CEF Study Group – Dec 2006] http://etext.virginia.edu/journals/EH/EH39/menich39.html Library and Archives Canada - Thesis Canada Portal This the central access point for many Canadian theses and information about the Theses Canada program. From here you will be able to: Search AMICUS, Canada's national on-line catalogue for bibliographic records of all theses in Library and Archives Canada's theses collection, which was established in 1965; and access and search the full text electronic versions of numerous Canadian theses and dissertations. [Recommendation by Ken Reynolds][CEF Study Group - July 2006] NOTE 1 - The electronic theses and dissertations on this site are for the personal use of students, scholars and the public. Any commercial use, publication or lending of them in libraries is strictly prohibited. NOTE 2 - I have selected some of the Great War theses for your information. Some theses can be downloaded directly while others are available on microfiche or can be purchased in paper form. [CEF Study Group] http://www.collectionscanada.ca/thesescanada/s4-230-e.html - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - AMICUS No. 25363972 NAME(S): *Foyn, Sean Flynn, 1963- TITLE(S): The underside of glory: AfriCanadian enlistment in the Canadian Expeditionary Force, 1914-1917 PUBLISHER: Ottawa : National Library of Canada SERIES: Canadian theses = Thèses canadiennes NOTES: Thesis (M.A.)--University of Ottawa, 2000. E-LOCATIONS: http://www.nlc-bnc.ca/obj/s4/f2/dsk2/ftp03/MQ48151.pdf STUDENT ABSTRACT: On March 28, 1917, the officers and men of the Number Two Construction Battalion (No. 2 CB) sailed from Halifax, Nova Scotia, to serve with the Canadian Expeditionary Force (CEF). The departure of the No. 2 CB marked a turning point in a three year battle over AfriCanadian volunteers in the CEF. Although there were no official policies preventing AfriCanadian enlistments, many AfriCanadian volunteers learned early in the War that racist military and civilian officials did not want a "Checker board army" and that it was a "White man's war." Nevertheless, AfriCanadians and their supporters persistently sought enlistments. In the process they exposed the racist underside of Canada's war-time glory. Eventually, the No. 2 CB, a segregated non-combat unit was authorized. Although the No. 2 CB was not the military objective AfriCanadians had fought for, it was one of the few options available for AfriCanadians who wanted to 'do their bit' for Canada during the 'Great War.' As part of a small, yet, slowly developing body of work related to the AfriCanadian wartime experience, this thesis examines the key personalities and events that fostered the creation and recruitment of Canada's only AfriCanadian overseas military unit. (Abstract shortened by UMI.) AMICUS No. 28420197 NAME(S): *Mantle, Craig Leslie, 1977- TITLE(S): Bagpipes and limestone: the history of the 253rd Battalion, Queen's University Highlanders, C.E.F PUBLISHER: Ottawa : National Library of Canada SERIES: Canadian theses = Thèses canadiennes NOTES: Thesis (M.A.)--Queen's University at Kingston, 2002. STUDENT ABSTRACT: Securing an adequate number of volunteers during the latter stages of the First World War presented the 253rd Battalion, Queen's University Highlanders, CEF, with a nearly insurmountable challenge. Between October 1916 and April 1917, the 253rd employed a variety of recruiting techniques that not only emphasized the Battalion's distinct highland character, but also required individual soldiers, regardless of rank, to broach the question of enlistment with their acquaintances. Although Kingston's merchant-class and civic leadership launched a number of initiatives calculated to increase the Battalion's strength, their lack of commitment to these endeavours allowed the burden of recruiting to fall almost exclusively to the Highlanders themselves. On the whole, the Battalion's efforts proved more effective in encouraging men to enlist than the schemes put forth by local citizens or community organizations. Owing to the need for manpower, the Highlanders pursued an aggressive recruiting campaign throughout Ontario and most of the western provinces. (Abstract shortened by UMI.) ================================ AMICUS No. 30951743 NAME(S): *Wilson, John Jason Collins, 1970- TITLE(S): Soldiers of song: the Dumbells and other Canadian concert parties of the First World War UBLISHER: Ottawa : National Library of Canada SERIES: Canadian theses = Thèses canadiennes. NOTES: Thesis (M.A.)--University of Guelph, 2004. STUDENT ABSTRACT: To optimize the fighting potential of Canadian soldiers in the First World War, organized 'concert parties' of the Canadian Expeditionary Forces (CEF) satisfied an official military mandate of raising the morale of Canadian soldiers. Ironically, concert party performers were able to achieve this aim by mocking the military system and its high ranking officers. Many officers were aware of the subversive material found in the concert parties' performances, but chose to ignore it, because of its positive effect on troop morale. The comedic material of both Canadian and British concert parties transformed over the course of the war from the light fare offered in the British Music Hall, to a darker humour that was 'exclusive' to Frontline soldiers. The exclusive nature of soldier humour was not only effective in raising the morale of the troops, but also forged an enduring and vital bond between soldier-entertainers and their audiences. Following the war, civilian audiences were introduced to the Dumbells and their sardonic interpretation of the 'Great War', largely through those soldiers who had seen the concert party perform in France. Among the pioneers of sketch comedy, the Dumbells are as important to the history of Canadian theatre, as they are to the country's social and cultural history. If nationhood was won on the crest of Vimy Ridge, it was the Dumbells who provided the country with its earliest soundtrack. ================================ AMICUS No. 15445751 NAME(S): *Mein, Stewart A. G TITLE(S): A grand experiment: adult education in the Canadian overseas military forces during the First World War PUBLISHER: Ottawa : National Library of Canada SERIES: Canadian theses = Thèses canadiennes NOTES: Thesis (Ph.D.)--Dalhousie University, 1994. STUDENT ABSTRACT: This dissertation examines the origin and growth of the adult education movement in the Canadian overseas military forces in the First World War, as presented through official military documents and the letters written by two of the principal participants, Clarence MacKinnon, then Principal of Pine Hill Divinity School, Halifax and Edmund Oliver, then Principal of St. Andrew's Theological College, Saskatoon. The dissertation outlines the scope of the adult education movement in the CEF in World War One, tracing four distinct phases of development of the movement. The first of these phases began in August, 1914, at Camp Valcartier, and grew out of the YMCA's mandate to provide educational activity to the CEF. In the second phase of adult education activity, Khaki Colleges were instituted in the 5th Canadian Division in Witley Camp, in Britain, by Clarence MacKinnon and spread to other camps through the work of the Chaplain Service. The third phase took place in France, in the Canadian Corps, where the University of Vimy Ridge was formed by E. H. Oliver under the direction of General Lipsett of the 3rd Canadian Division. In the fourth phase, the Khaki University was instituted in Britain by the Canadian Education Service under H. M. Tory in early 1918. The Khaki University absorbed the Khaki Colleges in Britain and the University of Vimy Ridge in France and began work in the other units in France such as the Forestry Corps. This dissertation puts forward three conclusions about the adult education movement in the Canadian overseas forces during the First World War. First, Henry Marshall Tory, then Principal of the University of Alberta, is usually given credit for starting the adult education movement in the CEF during World War One. Although Tory was one of the founders of the educational movement, evidence, primarily their own words, indicates that Clarence MacKinnon and E. H. Oliver did the work that turned his planning into actuality. Secondly, although it can be accurately said that the adult education movement in the Canadian forces overseas provided the impetus for similar movements in other armies, it has been generally understood that it was the activity of the Khaki University in Britain under Tory that provided the basis for the adult education activity that spread throughout the British and Dominion armies and then to other armies of the world. In fact, it was the work of Oliver and the University of Vimy Ridge that became the "model" for educational work in the British and Dominion field armies. Finally this dissertation also shows that although the adult education movement overseas provided the impetus for similar activity in other armies around the world, it had little effect on the post-war, re-establishment activity in Canada, or on subsequent adult educational activity in the post-war Canadian civilian or military adult education community until World War Two. ================================ AMICUS No. 30722096 NAME(S): *Fitch, Benjamin T. E. (Benjamin Thomas Edward), 1975- TITLE(S): Doing their duty: politics and recruitment in the Maritimes during World War I PUBLISHER: Ottawa : National Library of Canada SERIES: Canadian theses = Thèses canadiennes. NOTES: Thesis (M.A.)--University of Calgary, 2003. STUDENT ABSTRACT: This thesis focuses on the Maritime response to the First World War in the context of the greater English-Canadian reaction to and support for the war. With this object in mind, it uses established gauges of support for the war: enlistment in the CEF and support Union government in 1917 federal election. The study illustrates the marginal character of English Canada's oldest region and the implications of Maritime marginalization for proportional representation in the Canadian Expeditionary Force (CEF). Recruitment in the Maritimes was proportionally similar to the rest of English Canada despite a bias towards Maritime units, an insignificant British-born population, and a significant French speaking population. For their part, the Maritime election results demonstrate the crucial importance of regional Liberal leadership to the success of the Union cause by juxtaposing the success in New Brunswick with the apparent failure of Union in Nova Scotia and Prince Edward Island. In contrast to historical and scholarly perceptions to the contrary, this thesis ultimately argues that despite regional nuances, the Maritime response the Great War was basically the same as other regions of English Canada. ================================ AMICUS No. 15474025 NAME(S): *Inglis, Dave, 1969- TITLE(S): Vimy Ridge, 1917-1992: a Canadian myth over seventy five years SERIES: Canadian theses = Thèses canadiennes NOTES: Thesis (M.A.)--Simon Fraser University, 1995. STUDENT ABSTRACT: 1992 was the 125th anniversary of Canadian Confederation and the 75th anniversary of the battle of Vimy Ridge. Some historians have argued that the latter anniversary was more important as they believe that it was during the Great War that Canada became "a nation". While this belief is often specifically anchored on Vimy Ridge, Canadians are generally unaware of Vimy and the Great War experience. Nevertheless, the Vimy myth persists in Canadian military histories and reappears in other sources on major anniversaries. To investigate this contradiction, this thesis traces the origins and development of the Vimy myth from its foundations in the period between Confederation and the Great War to its 75th anniversary. The life of the myth is accessed through an extensive historiographical survey of Canadian military histories, Canadian newspapers, British Columbian high-school textbooks and other primary and secondary sources. (Abstract shortened by UMI.) ================================ AMICUS No. 13121729 NAME(S): *Chappelle, Dean Andrew, 1968- TITLE(S): The most brilliant of successes: the planning and implementation of the Battle of Amiens, 8-11 August, 1918 PUBLISHER: Ottawa : National Library of Canada SERIES: Canadian theses = Thèses canadiennes Thesis (M.A.)--University of New Brunswick, 1992. STUDENT ABSTRACT: This thesis attempts to shed light on the development of the British Expeditionary Force (BEF) and its component parts, particularly the Canadian Corps, as a fighting unit through a study of its most successful operation of the War, the Battle of Amiens, 8-11 August 1918. Through an examination of secondary sources, government documents, and personal papers, both in Canada and in Britain, a clearer picture is drawn of the Battle of Amiens, the development of the BEF and of the Great War in general. The secondary sources are lacking in many cases in their presentation of these topics, particularly the planning stages of the battle. In short, Amiens demonstrated that the BEF improved greatly in the course of the War, particularly since the disastrous Battle of the Somme two years before. The success of the Amiens battle was indeed largely the result of increased British effectiveness, but other factors, such as the weakness of the German Army by mid-1918, were also important. (Abstract shortened by UMI.) ================================ AMICUS No. 32119386 NAME(S): *Holden, Michael James, 1977- TITLE(S): Constantly shifting and constantly adapting [microform] : the tactical exploits of the Canadian Motor Machine Gun Brigades, 1914-1918 PUBLISHER: Ottawa : Library and Archives Canada SERIES: Canadian theses = Thèses canadiennes. NOTES: Thesis (M.A.)--University of New Brunswick, 2003. STUDENT ABSTRACT: The Canadian Motor Machine Gun Brigade has long been seen as one of the great innovations of the First World War, 1914-1918. Mounted in lightly armoured vehicles, the CMMG Brigades (the Motors) could quickly bring to bear the firepower of their machine guns in a number of locations. However, upon arrival in Belgium and France in 1915 rather than a battlefield suited to the movement of autocars, the brigade found a static battlefield characterized by miles of trenches and barbed wire. Accordingly, it has been held that the Motors were relatively ineffective until open fighting returned to the Western Front in 1918. The common view is that the 'golden time' of the CMMGB occurred when they helped stem the tide during the German offensives of spring 1918, but that the unit then failed to achieve a similar standard of effectiveness during the Allied offensives of the final months of the war. Recently historians have begun to examine 1918 in terms of effective Allied tactical learning and operational planning, and have accepted the idea that the Hundred Days Campaign of August to November 1918 represented something different from the attrition battles of 1916 and 1917. Indeed, it has been argued that the final British (and therefore Canadian) assaults of 1918 represented, the culmination of a long and effective learning process. Yet the same analysis has not been used with respect to the CMMGB. In fact, it has been suggested that the Motors never adapted to the more fluid offensives of the final phase of the war. The aim of this work is to study the development and adaptability of the Motor Machine Gun Brigade in the context of the entire war. Moreover, the thesis supports the 'revisionist' school by demonstrating that the Motors are a classic example of effective tactical development during the war, that they made the transition to open warfare during the Hundred Days Campaign, and were illustrative of the new style of war that the Allies used in 1918 to beat the Germans. ================================ AMICUS No. 27758682 NAME(S): *Iarocci, Andrew, 1976- TITLE(S): The Mad Fourth: the 4th Canadian Infantry Battalion at war, 1914-1916 E-LOCATIONS: http://www.nlc-bnc.ca/obj/s4/f2/dsk3/ftp 05/MQ65199.pdf PUBLISHER: Ottawa : National Library of Canada SERIES: Canadian theses = Thèses canadiennes. NOTES: Thesis (M.A.)--Wilfrid Laurier University, 2001. STUDENT ABSTRACT: This thesis offers an analysis of the experience of the men who served in the 4th Canadian Infantry Battalion from the outbreak of war in 1914 to the final weeks of the Somme offensive in October 1916. The research is based on the best available archival sources and is informed by the most important secondary literature dealing with operations on the Western Front. Canadian historians have generally avoided the study of the Great War at the battalion level, preferring to write about generalship or operations at the Corps level. This has left the task of writing about combat to those concerned with personal memoirs and anecdotal accounts of life at the sharp end. This case study of the 4th Canadian Infantry Battalion presents evidence which challenges many of the conventional arguments employed by military historians describing the war from the top down. The thesis also addresses the age-old question of the role of leadership in war, arguing that the battalion experienced a variety of leadership styles. (Abstract shortened by UMI.) ================================ AMICUS No. 24733210 NAME(S): *Miller, Ian Hugh Maclean TITLE(S): 'Our glory and our grief':Toronto and the Great War E-LOCATIONS: http://www.nlc-bnc.ca/obj/s4/f2/dsk1/tap e9/PQDD_0015/NQ44830.pdf PUBLISHER: Ottawa : National Library of Canada SERIES: Canadian theses = Thèses canadiennes. NOTES: Thesis (Ph.D.)--Wilfrid Laurier University, 1999. STUDENT ABSTRACT: This dissertation studies the impact of the Great War on Toronto, Ontario. What happened in the city? How were the enormous sacrifices of the war rationalized? Why did English-Canadians support it? What did citizens know about the war? The dissertation draws upon a wide and varied source base. 'Every ' issue of the following newspapers was examined: the six Toronto daily papers, 'The Weekly Sun', 'Macleans', 'The Industrial Banner', 'Everywoman's World', 'The Labour Gazette', and the religious periodicals of major religious denominations in the city. In addition, extensive searches were conducted in the City of Toronto Archives, the Archives of Ontario, the Public Archives of Canada, Baldwin Reading Room, Directorate of History, University of Toronto Archives and Thomas Fisher Rare Book Room, and related church archives. Using these public and private sources, a complex portrait of wartime life has been drawn detailing what residents 'knew', and how they 'behaved'. The narrative is informed by social, cultural, military, labour, and women's historiographies. Throughout the war, English-Canadian Torontonians reacted in a manner which was both informed and committed. Initially, they expected the war would be short. However, when military events demonstrated that an ad hoc, voluntary approach would be insufficient to meet the increasing demands of the war, they adapted. Voluntary organizations gradually gave way to popularly sanctioned government involvement in everything from the financing to the supplying of men for the war. This was a community which was firmly dedicated to winning the war. Despite its enormous cost, citizens endured. ================================ AMICUS No. 18225882 NAME(S): *McCulloch, Ian M., 1954- TITLE(S): The Fighting Seventh : the evolution & devolution of tactical command and control in a Canadian infantry brigade of the Great War E-LOCATIONS: http://www.nlc-bnc.ca/obj/s4/f2/dsk2/ftp04...4.pdfPUBLISHER: Ottawa : National Library of Canada SERIES: Canadian theses = Thèses canadiennes NOTES: Thesis (M.A.)--Royal Military College of Canada, 1997. STUDENT ABSTRACT: This thesis examines the complex gray area of Canadian command and control in the First World War within an infantry brigade and its evolution at the tactical level as well as its devolution of functions and responsibilities. Command as an effective process is susceptible to Clausewitz's "friction of war". External factors causing friction range from the technical (eg. the lack of voice communications beyond the battalion HQ) to the sociological (eg. the human dimension of "leadership" or, perhaps, shoddy staff work). Organizational changes, technological innovations and measures taken to enhance command and control systems were attempts to apply more control to a chaotic battlefield. Artillery fire support, intelligence-gathering, aerial and ground reconnaissance, telephones and the development of wireless, the employment of machine-guns and tanks, and the trend towards combined arms warfare are all examples of catalysts that designed the shape of the new modern warfare and are examined in this thesis on a chronological basis. Accompanying the new design was a requirement for a shift in the application of command techniques or "the process" to control the new tactical systems. (Abstract shortened by UMI.) ================================ AMICUS No. 18224130 NAME(S): *Newell, M. Leslie (Margaret Leslie), 1954- TITLE(S): Led by the spirit of humanity: Canadian military nursing, 1914-1929 PUBLISHER: Ottawa : National Library of Canada SERIES: Canadian theses = Thèses canadiennes NOTES: Thesis (M.Sc.)--University of Ottawa, 1996. STUDENT ABSTRACT: This study examines Canadian military nursing from the onset of the 1914 Great War to the end of the first post-War decade in 1929. Its purpose is to focus on the experience of military nursing in an attempt to discover the specifics of the profession, particularly during the interwar years, and to analyze the factors that affected military nursing during that era. The analysis of military nursing in context with the era revealed three main conclusions. First, unlike the peacetime experience, military nursing during the Great War was a professionally and culturally liberating experience that set Military Nurses apart form their civil peers. Unfortunately, during the interwar years, the re-instatement of Nursing Sisters to pre-War military positions of administration, removed them from the clinical setting, was deleterious to the profession, and did not accord them the opportunity to apply the practice element of their profession. Second, the introduction of non-commissioned men as hospital orderlies provided the major hospital military workforce that maintained the Nursing Sister's distance from the bedside and usurped them of their clinical focus and the opportunity to provide patient care. As an unfavourable offshoot to this, Military Nurses were restricted to administration. Without a practice component to their profession, Military Nurses had little in common with their civil peers who were actively engaged in practice and in activities to advance the profession. Last, the limitation imposed upon Nursing Sisters' by their appointment of relative rank precluded them from advancing within the military organization, from participating in the re-structuring of the CAMC and from influencing any policy that affected patient services or the Nursing profession. (Abstract shortened by UMI.) ================================ AMICUS No. 13553778 NAME(S): *Shannon, Mark, 1967- TITLE(S): The First World War and German strategy: evolution of the concept of total war, 1919-1936 PUBLISHER: Ottawa : National Library of Canada SERIES: Canadian theses = Thèses canadiennes Thesis (M.A.)--University of Calgary, 1993. STUDENT ABSTRACT: During the interwar period German strategy reflected the principal lesson of the First World War--warfare was total, that is it involved the mobilization of a nation's entire physical, moral, and spiritual forces. Under no circumstances could Germany afford to approach the subject of strategy in the same deluded manner in which it had prior to 1914. The First World War had clearly shown the German military establishment that the concept of nineteenth century cabinet warfare had long since been rendered obsolete. The military believed that if they were again to plan for a limited military conflict then a disaster greater than 1918 would occur. In order to avoid this disaster Germany must prepare in peacetime for a lengthy military conflict which would involve all facets of the population. In this way, Germany would possess an integrated means to wage a war which would seek to again make Germany a great European power. ================================ AMICUS No. 31076099 NAME(S): *Harding, Robert James Allen, 1980- TITLE(S): Glorious tragedy: Newfoundland's cultural memory of the Battle of Beaumont Hamel, 1916-1949 PUBLISHER: Ottawa : National Library of Canada SERIES: Canadian theses = Thèses canadiennes. NOTES: Thesis (M.A.)--Dalhousie University, 2004. STUDENT ABSTRACT: On 1 July 1916, the Newfoundland Regiment was slaughtered at Beaumont Hamel, France in its bloodiest battle of the First World War. Today the battle is remembered by Newfoundlanders as the worst catastrophe in their island's history and as the single event which instigated a chain of events that led to the island's loss of responsible government in 1933 and Confederation with Canada in 1949. Beaumont Hamel was once proclaimed as Newfoundland's proudest national achievement. Between 1916 and 1949 an assortment of Newfoundland mythmakers utilized newspaper editorial columns, commemorative ceremonies, historical literature, and war memorials to generate a triumphant cultural memory of the conflict that was built almost entirely upon a mythologized interpretation of Beaumont Hamel. Similarly to Great Britain, Canada, and Australia, Newfoundland attempted to find a deeper meaning in a war which cost more than anyone imagined a war ever could. ------------ - - - - - - - - - - - - University of Birmingham - Centre for First World War Studies Many members of the Centre are published authors of some authourity on the Great War and several are associated with the Great War Forum discussion board. The site includes information on their Journal, seminars and lecture series, book reviews, and a wide range of quality website links. [CEF Study Group - May 2006 - Updated] http://www.firstworldwar.bham.ac.uk/ Bibliography of the Great War - University of Birmingham Please notify additions or corrections to Dr J.M. Bourne, Director of the Centre for First World War Studies: J.M.Bourne@bham.ac.uk ================================================================= Items of specific CEF Interest have been bolded - this list was most likely compiled by the Centre for First World War Studies. Is there interest in attempting to acquire any of this information for further study? ================================================================= Unpublished Theses Abbatiello, John ‘“Props” and Periscopes: British Naval Aviation and the Anti-submarine Campaign, 1917-18’, PhD, London Univ., 2004 Adelson, R.D. ‘The Formation of British Policy Towards the Middle East, 1914-1918’, PhD, Washington University, 1972 Aldridge, Ross ‘The Impact of the Great War on Intellectuals, 1914-21’, PhD, Reading University, 2003 Allen, Ronald Michael ‘Borden, Britain and the Navy, 1909-1914’, MA, Calgary University, 1971 Allison, M.J. ‘The National Service Issue, 1900-1914’, PhD, London University, 1975 Anderson, Ross ‘World War I in East Africa, 1916-1918’, PhD, Glasgow University, 2001 Arnold, Anthony J. ‘Profit Controls and Levies in the First World War’, PhD, London University, 1995 Badsey, S.D. ‘Fire and Sword: The British Army and the Arme Blanche Controversy, 1871-1921’, PhD, Cambridge University, 1982 Baer, Alexander ‘The Anglo-German Antagonism and Trade with Holland, with Special Reference to Foodstuffs, During the First World War’, PhD,Cambridge University, 1997 Barlow, Robin ‘Some Aspects of the Experience of Carmarthenshire in the Great War’, PhD, Wales, 2001 Bart, N.J.A. ‘Service not Self - the British Legion 1921-1939’, PhD, St Andrews, 1994 Berry, Nicholas J. ‘“Flawed in France, Flawless in Palestine”: Is the Traditional View of Sir Edmund Allenby’s Military Career in the First World War in Need of Revision?’, MPhil, London, 1999 Bet-El, I.R. ‘Experience into Identity: the Writings of British Conscript Soldiers, 1916-1918’, PhD, London University, 1991 Bettinson, Helen M. ‘Lost Souls in the House of Restoration? British Ex-servicemen and War Disability Pensions, 1914-30’, PhD, University of East Anglia, 2002 Bezeau, M.V. ‘The Role and Organization of Canadian Military Staffs 1904-1945’, MA, RMC Kingston, Ontario, 1978 Black, Jonathan A.A. ‘C.R. Nevinson as Painter, Printmaker, War Artist and Leader in the “Call to Order” Trend, 1910-20’, PhD, London University, 2003 Blades, Geoffrey D. ‘The Battles of the Lys: The British Army on the Defensive in April 1918’, MPhil, London University, 1999 Blanch, M.D., ‘Nation, Empire and the Birmingham Working Class, 1899-1914’, PhD, Birmingham University, 1975 Bowman, Tim ‘The Discipline and Morale of the British Expeditionary Force in France and Flanders, 1914-18, with Particular Reference to the Irish Regiments’, PhD, Luton University, 1999 Brader, Chris ‘Timbertown Girls: Gretna Munitions Workers, 1915-18’, PhD, Warwick University, 2001 Bray, Robert Matthew ‘The Canadian Patriotic Response to the Great War’, PhD, York University, 1977 Bridgewater, R.D. ‘The Great War Letters of Humphrey Francis Humphreys: A Critical Edition’, PhD, Birmingham University, 2003 Brown, Alison M. ‘British Churches in the First World War’, PhD, St Andrews University, 1996 Brown, Ian M. ‘Lieutenant-General Sir Arthur Currie and the Canadian Corps 1917-1918: The Evolution of a Style of Command and Attack’, MA, University of Calgary, 1991 Brown, Ian M. ‘The Evolution of the Administrative Infrastructure of the British Expeditionary Force, 1910-19’, PhD, London University, 1996 Burk, Kathleen M. ‘British War Missions to the United States, 1914-1918’, DPhil, Oxford University, 1976 Campbell, D. ‘The Divisional Experience in the CEF: A Social and Operational History of the 2nd Canadian Division, 1915-1918’ PhD, University of Calgary, 2003 Carter, Matthew ‘The Struggle for Reconstruction: Coalition and the Labour Movement, 1916-24’, PhD, University of East Anglia, 1996 Cecil, H.P. ‘The Development of Lord Robert Cecil's Views on the Securing of a Lasting Peace, 1915-1919’, DPhil, Oxford University, 1971 Childs, David J. ‘British Tanks 1915-18. Manufacture and Employment’, PhD, Glasgow University, 1996 Coetzee, Daniel de Villiers ‘Factors Accounting for Variations in Voluntary Enlistment in Scotland, August 1914 to December 1915’, PhD, Cambridge University, 2004 Collins, Laurence J. ‘The Function of Theatre Entertainment in the First World War, 1914-18’, PhD, London University, 1994 Cook, Mark ‘Evaluating the Learning Curve: The 38th (Welsh) Division on the Western Front, 1916-1918’, MPhil, Birmingham Univ, 2006 Cook, Timothy R.B. ‘No Place to Run: The Canadian Corps and Gas Warfare In the First World War’, MA, RMC Kingston, Ontario, 1996 Cullen, Stephen M. ‘Gender and the Great War: British Combatants, Masculinity and Perceptions of Women, 1918-39’, DPhil, Oxford University, 1999 Dawson, D.W. ‘British Defence Strategy 1906-1914’, MA, Manchester University, 1966 De Groot, Gerard J. ‘The Pre-War Life and Military Career of Douglas Haig’, PhD, Edinburgh University, 1983 Dendy, Scott ‘Morale during and after the fall of Kut-al-Amara’, MA, Leeds University, 1998 Dennant, Lynda ‘Women at the Front: Gender Conflicts during the First World War’, PhD, Warwick University, 1998 D’Ombrain, Nicholas J. ‘The Evolution of British Defence Strategy 1904-1914: A Study of Supreme Command in an Age of Transition’, MA, McGill University, 1965 Dyster, P.A. ‘In the Wake of the Tank: The 20th Century Evolution of the Theory of Armored Warfare’, PhD, Johns Hopkins University, 1984 Elsey, Ena ‘The Rehabilitation and Employment of Disabled Ex-servicemen after Two World Wars’, PhD, Teesside University, 1995 Eyre, Kenneth Charles ‘Staff and Command in the Canadian Corps: The Canadian Militia 1896-1914 as a Source of Senior Officers’, MA, Duke University, 1967 Fewster, Kevin J. ‘Expression and Suppression: Aspects of Military Censorship in Australia during the Great War’, PhD, University of New South Wales, 1980 Finlay, Katherine L. ‘British Catholic Identity during the First World War: The Challenge of Universality and Particularity’, DPhil Oxford University, 2004 Fontenot, G. ‘The Modern Major-General: Patterns in the Careers of the British Army Major-Generals on active duty at the time of the Sarajevo Assassination’, MA, Chapel Hill, 1980 Freda, Dominic ‘Popular Responses to the Outbreak of the 1914-18 War in England and Wales’, MLitt, Bristol University, 1999 French, David W. ‘Some Aspects of Social and Economic Planning for War in Great Britain, c.1905-15’, PhD, London University, 1978 Gaffney, Angela D. ‘“Poppies on the Up Platform”: Commemoration of the Great War in Wales’, PhD, Cardiff University, 1996 Gagen, Wendy ‘Experience of Disabled Men in the First World War’, PhD, Essex, 2004 Gassert, I.L. ‘Collaborators and Dissidents: Aspects of British Literary Publishing in the First World War, 1914-19’, DPhil, Oxford University, 2002 Gooch, John ‘The Origins and Development of the British and Imperial General Staff to 1914’, PhD, London University, 1969 Goold, J.D. ‘Old Diplomacy: The Diplomatic Career of Lord Hardinge, 1910-1922’, PhD, Cambridge University, 1976 Gower, S.J.L. ‘Wolverhampton during the Great War’, PhD, Birmingham University, 2000 Green, Andrew, ‘Writing the Great War: Sir James Edmonds and the Official Histories 1915-1948’, PhD, Leeds University, ???? Grieves, Keith R. ‘The British Government’s Political and Administrative Response to the Man-power Problem in the First World War’, PhD, Manchester University, 1984 Gustavson, Wesley C. ‘Missing the Boat? Colonel A.F. Duguid and the Canadian Official History of World War I’, MA, University of Calgary, 1999 Halvorsen, Peter ‘The Development of Mines and Mine Warfare in the Fisher Era, 1900-14’, MPhil, Oxford University, 2000 Hammond, C.B. [bryn] ‘The Theory and Practice of Tank Co-operation with Other Arms on the Western Front during the First World War’, PhD, Birmingham University, 2006 Harding, Albert W. ‘War and Social Change: A Study of a Scottish Burgh, 1910-22’, MPhil, Open University, 1995 Harris, Stephen John ‘Canadian Brass: The Growth of the Canadian Military The Growth of the Canadian Military Profession, 1860-1919’, PhD, Duke University, 1979 Haycock, Ron G. ‘Sir Sam Hughes: His Public Career, 1862-1916’, PhD, University of Western Ontario, 1976 Herrick, Claire ‘Of War Wounds: The Propaganda, Politics and Experience of Medicine in World War I on the Western Front’, PhD, Manchester, 1996 Hewetson, Jane Elisabeth ‘Unofficial records: A Study of Diaries with Special A Study of Diaries with Special Reference to those kept by Soldiers on the Western Front during the First World War’, MPhil, Loughborough University of Technology, 1983 Hewitt, Margaret ‘Efficiency not Despondency: The Social Rehabilitation of World War I Veterans in East Anglia, with Special Reference to Norfolk’, MPhil, University of East Anglia, 2004 Hiley, Nicholas P. ‘Making War: The British News Media and Government Control, 1914-1916’, PhD, Open University, 1985 Hopkins, John ‘The Role of Military Hospitals, 1914-18’, Ph.D, Leicester University, 2003 Hughes, A.C. ‘The Capture of Mametz Wood: A Study of Lloyd George’s “Welsh Army” at the Battle of the Somme 1916’, MPhil, London University, 1975 Hughes, Christopher ‘Army Recruitment in Gwynedd, 1914-1916’, MA, University of Wales, 1983 Hughes, Matthew D. ‘General Allenby and the campaign of the EEF in Palestine, 1917-18’, PhD, London University, 1995 Hughes, S. Gavin M. ‘Northern Irish Regiments in the Great War: Culture, Mythology, Politics and National Identity’, PhD, University of Wales, 1999 Hyatt, A. ‘The Military Career of Sir Arthur Currie’, PhD, Duke University, 1964 James, Ingrid H. ‘Some Aspects of the Provision for War Widows in Britain, 1914-21’, MLitt, Cambridge University, 1995 Jamet, Catherine J.M.-O. ‘Commemorating the Lost Generation: The First World War Memorials in Cambridge, Oxford and Some English Public Schools’, MLitt, Cambridge University, 1995 Jenkins, D. ‘Winning Trench Warfare: Battlefield Intelligence in the Canadian Corps, 1914-1918’, PhD, Carleton University, 1999 Johnson, N.P.A.S. ‘Aspects of the Historical Geography of the 1918-19 Influenza Pandemic in Britain’, PhD, Cambridge University, 2001 Jones, Michael ‘The London Regiment, 1908-18’, MPhil, Birmingham University, 1999 Jordan, David J. ‘The Army Co-Operation Role of the Royal Flying Corps on the Western Front during the Great War’, PhD, Birmingham Univ, 1997 Joy, Caroline ‘War and Unemployment in an Industrial Community: Barrow-in-Furness, 1914-26’, PhD, University of Central Lancashire, 2004 Kierstead, Robin Glen ‘The Canadian Military Medical Experience during the Great War, 1914-1918’, MA, Queen's University [Kingston, Ontario], 1982 Kilian, Crawford ‘The Great War and the Canadian Novel, 1915-1926’, MA, Simon Fraser University, 1972 Kozak, M. ‘Women Munition Workers During the First World War with Special Reference to Engineering’, PhD, Hull University, 1977 Latcham, Andrew P. ‘Journey’s End: Ex-servicemen and the State during and after the Great War’, D Phil, Oxford University, 1997 Leese, P.J. ‘A Social and Cultural History of Shellshock, with Particular Reference to Experience of British Soldiers during and after the Great War’, PhD, Open University, 1989 Leppard, Thomas Philip ‘Richard Turner and the Battle of St Eloi’, MA, Calgary, 1994 Lloyd, Nicholas A. ‘The British Expeditionary Force and the Battle of Loos’, PhD, Birmingham University, 2005 Lobell, Brian J. ‘War, Reconstruction and the Fisher Act of 1918’, M Litt, Cambridge University, 1995 Lomas, Janis ‘War Widows in British Society, 1914-90’, PhD, Staffordshire University, 1997 Losinger, Isabella Diane ‘Officer-Man Relations in the Canadian Expeditionary Force, 1914-1919’, MA, Carleton University, 1990 Luethje, M.M.M. ‘The Politics of Monetary Policy in Britain from the First World War to the World Economic Conference of 1933’, PhD, Cambridge University, 2003 Macdonald, John A. ‘In Search of Veritable: Training the Canadian Staff Officer, 1899 to 1945’, MA, RMC Kingston, Ontario, 1992 MacKenzie, S.P. ‘Politics and Morale: Current Affairs and Citizenship Education in the British Armed Forces, 1917-1949’, PhD, Oxford University, 1989 Macleod, Jennifer R. ‘General Sir Ian Hamilton and the Re-writing of the History of the Gallipoli Campaign, 1915-30, MPhil, Cambridge University, 1996 MacLeod, Jennifer R. ‘The Gallipoli Campaign as Assessed by Some British and Australian Participants, 1915-39’, PhD, Cambridge University, 2000 Marble, W. Sanders ‘“The infantry cannot do with a gun less”: The Place of the Artillery in the BEF, 1914-1918’, PhD, London University, 2001 McCartney, Helen B. ‘The 1/6th and 1/10th Battalions of the King’s (Liverpool) Regiment in the Period of the First World War’, PhD, Cambridge University, 2001 McCulloch, I.M. ‘The ‘Fighting Seventh’: The Evolution and Devolution of Tactical Command and Control in a Canadian Infantry Brigade of the Great War’, MA, Royal Military College of Canada, 1997 Maroney, Paul J. ‘Recruiting the Canadian Expeditionary Force in Ontario, 1914-1917’, MA, Queen's University [Kingston, Ontario], 1991 Martin, J.F. ‘The Government and the Control of the British Coal Industry 1914-18’, MPhil, Loughborough University, 1981 Millar, John Dermot ‘A Study in the Limitations of Command: General Sir William Birdwood and the AIF, 1914-1918’, PhD, University of New South Wales, 1993 Millman, Margaret F. ‘In the Shadow of War: Continuities and Discontinuities in the Construction of the Masculine Identities of British Soldiers, 1914-24’, PhD, Greenwich University, 2003 Mitchell, Antony C. ‘The Unionist Press and the Politics of the Great War’, DPhil, York University, 1999 Mitchinson, K. William ‘Auxiliary Forces for the Land Defence of Great Britain, 1909-19’, PhD, Luton University, 2002 Moon, Howard R. ‘The Invasion of the United Kingdom: Public Controversy and Official Planning 1888-1918’, PhD, London University, 1968 Moore-Bick, C.J. ‘“Loss of Innocence”: The Emotional Transition from Civilian to Soldier in the First World War’, MPhil, Cambridge University, 2002 Morris, Patricia M. ‘Leeds and the Amateur Military Tradition: the Leeds Rifles and its Antecedents, 1815-1918’, PhD, Leeds University, 1983 Mowbray, James Arthur ‘Militiaman: A Comparative Study of the Evolution of Organization in the Canadian and British Volunteer Citizen Military Forces, 1896-1939’, PhD, Duke University, 1975 Muenger, Elizabeth ‘The British Army in Ireland, 1886-1914’ PhD, University of Michigan, 1981 Mythen, John ‘The Revolution in British Battle Tactics, July 1916-June 1917: The Spring and Summer Offensives during 1917’, MPhil, Cambridge University, 2000 Newell, J. ‘British Military Policy in Egypt and Palestine, August 1914 to June 1917’, PhD, London University, 1990 Nielsen, Robert F. ‘A Barely Perceptible Limp: The First World War in Canadian Fiction (1914-1919)’, MA, Guelph University, 1971 Novick, Benjamin Z. ‘Ireland’s Revolutionary War? Irish Nationalist Propaganda, the Great War and the Construction of Irish Identity’, DPhil, Oxford University, 2000 Occleshaw, M.E. ‘British Military Intelligence in the First World War', PhD, Keele University, 1984 Oram, Gerard ‘“What alternative punishment is there”? Military Executions during World War I’, PhD, Open University, 2000 Otley, C.B. ‘The Origins and Recruitment of the British Army Elite, 1870-1959’, PhD, Hull University, 1965 Palazzo, Albert ‘Tradition, Innovation, and the Pursuit of the Decisive Battle: Poison Gas and the British Army on the Western Front, 1915-1918’, PhD, Ohio State University, 1996 Peaple, Simon P. ‘The 46th (North Midland) Division on the Western Front in the Great War’, PhD, Birmingham University, 2004 Perry, F.W. ‘Manpower and Organisational Problems in the Expansion of the British and Commonwealth Armies during two World Wars’, PhD, London University, 1982 Porter, Patrick H.M. ‘New Jerusalems: Military Chaplains and the Ideal of Redemptive Sacrifice in the Great War’, MPhil, Oxford University, 2003 Pugsley, David ‘The Great War and Methodism: The Assimilation of Dissent?’, M Phil, Birmingham University, 1995 Radley, K. ‘First Canadian Division, C.E.F., 1914-1918: Ducimus (We lead)’, PhD, Carleton University, 2000 Roberts, James ‘“Killer Butterflies”: Infantry Combat Behaviour and Morale in the 19th (Western) Division during the Great War’, PhD, Coventry University, 2004 Samuels, Martin ‘Doctrine and Dogma: A Comparative Analysis of German and British Infantry Tactics in the First World War’, MPhil, Manchester University, 1989 Scales, R.H. Jr ‘Artillery in Small Wars: The Evolution of British Artillery Doctrine, 1860-1914’, PhD, Duke University, 1976 Schneider, Eric F. ‘What Britons were Told about the War in the Trenches, 1914-18’, DPhil, Oxford University, 1998 Schreiber, Shane ‘The Orchestra of Victory: Canadian Corps Operations in the Battles of the Hundred Days 8 August - 11 November 1918’, MA, RMC Kingston, Ontario, 1995 Sellwood, Jane Leslie ‘If We Forget: English Canadian Poetry of the Great War, 1914-1918’, MA, Carleton University, 1981 Sheffield, Gary David ‘The Effect of War Service on the 22nd Battalion Royal Fusiliers (Kensington) 1914-18, with Special Reference to Morale, Discipline, and the Officer/Man Relationship’, MA, Leeds University, 1984 Simpson, Andrew ‘The Operational Role of British Corps Command on the Western Front, 1914-1918’, PhD, London University College, 2001 Smith, Richard A. ‘Britain and the Strategy of the Economic Weapon in the War against Germany, 1914-19’, PhD, Newcastle University, 2000 Snowden, Kathryn L. ‘British 21st Infantry Division on the Western Front, 1914-1918: A Case Study in Tactical Evolution’, MPhil, Birmingham University, 2001 Spiers, Edward M. ‘The Reform of the Front Lines Forces of the Regular Army in the United Kingdom’, PhD, Edinburgh University, 1974 Spillan, G.F. ‘Manpower Problems in the British Army 1918-1939: the Balancing of Resources and Commitments’, DPhil, Oxford University, 1985 Stewart, W. ‘Attack Doctrine in the Canadian Corps, 1916-1918’, MA, University of New Brunswick, 1982 Stryker, L.S. ‘Languages of Sacrifice and Suffering in England in the First World War’, PhD, Cambridge University, 1992 Stubbs, J.O. ‘The Conservative Party and the Politics of War, 1914-16’, DPhil, Oxford University, 1973 Summerton, N.W. ‘The Development of British Military Planning for a War Against Germany 1904-1914’, PhD, London University, 1970 Thom, Deborah ‘Women Workers in the Woolwich Arsenal in the First World War’, MA Thesis, Warwick University, 1975 Thom, Deborah ‘The Ideology of Women's Work in Britain, 1914-1924, with Specific Reference to the NFWW and Other Trade Unions’, PhD, CNAA - Thames Polytechnic, 1982 Thomis, Malcolm I. ‘The Labour Movement in Great Britain and Compulsory Military Service, 1914-16’, MA, London University, 1959 Thornton, Andrew ‘The Territorial Force in Staffordshire, 1908-1915’, MPhil, Birmingham University, 2004 Vorce, Anne L. ‘The Role of Ireland in British Defence Planning, 1908-1914’, MA, London University, 1975 Wahlert, G. ‘Provost: Friend or Foe?: The Development of an Australian Provost Service 1914-1945’, MA, University of New South Wales, 1996 Watts, Martin ‘A Military, Political and Social History of the Jewish Legion’, PhD, Open University, 2003 Williams, G.K. ‘Statistics and Strategic Bombardment: Operations and Records of the British Long-Range Bombing Force During World War I and Their Implications for the Development of the Post-War Royal Air Force, 1917-1923’, DPhil, Oxford University, 1987 Williams, Robert D. ‘The 1/8th Battalion Royal Warwickshire Regiment during the Great War’, MPhil, Birmingham University, 2000 Wilson, James Brent ‘Morale and Discipline in the British Expeditionary Force, 1914-1918’, MA, University of New Brunswick, 1978 Winton, Graham R. ‘Horsing the British Army, 1878-1923’, PhD, Birmingham University, 1997 Wrigley, Christopher J. ‘Lloyd George and the Labour Movement (With Particular Reference to the Years 1914-1922’, PhD, London University, 1973 John Bourne Trevor Harvey Centre for First World War Studies Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Borden Battery Posted 10 September , 2010 Author Share Posted 10 September , 2010 Hello Everyone At present we are preparing a major update to the CEF Study Group List of Recommended Great War Websites for November 2010. Approximately twenty additional pages of websites are being added. During the next several weeks we will introduce you to a sampling of the upcoming November 2010 List. Picklehaubes.com Forum The Picklehaubes.com Forum provides a German perspective of the Great War and begins to provide both a balance and another source of information on the Great War. The forum has approximately 650 members and about 30,000 postings. The common themes include the study and collection of Imperial German headgear but also covers other topics from the German perspective of the Great War. [Recommended by Chris Dale-German Colonial Uniforms Website] [CEF Study Group - Sept 2010] http://www.pickelhaubes.com/forum/index.php Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Borden Battery Posted 11 September , 2010 Author Share Posted 11 September , 2010 First World War Official Histories The Official History of Australia in the War of 1914–1918 is a 12-volume series covering Australia’s involvement in the First World War. The series was edited by the official historian Charles Bean, who also wrote six of the volumes, and was published between 1920 and 1942. The books, with their familiar covers, “the colour of dried blood” in the words of one reviewer, rapidly became highly regarded internationally. Bean’s work established the tradition and set the standard for all subsequent Australian official war histories. [CEF Study Group - Sept 2010] http://www.awm.gov.au/histories/first_world_war/ The following volumes can be accessed directly by double-clicking the item of interest: • Preface by Professor Robert O’Neill This preface was written for the University of Queensland Press editions and are applicable to all volumes. • Volume I – The Story of ANZAC from the outbreak of war to the end of the first phase of the Gallipoli Campaign, May 4, 1915 (11th edition, 1941) • Volume II – The Story of ANZAC from 4 May, 1915, to the evacuation of the Gallipoli Peninsula (11th edition, 1941) • Volume III – The Australian Imperial Force in France, 1916 (12th edition, 1941) • Volume IV – The Australian Imperial Force in France, 1917 (11th edition, 1941) • Volume V – The Australian Imperial Force in France during the Main German Offensive, 1918 (8th edition, 1941) • Volume VI – The Australian Imperial Force in France during the Allied Offensive, 1918 (1st edition, 1942) • Volume VII – The Australian Imperial Force in Sinai and Palestine, 1914–1918 (10th edition, 1941) • Volume VIII – The Australian Flying Corps in the Western and Eastern Theatres of War, 1914–1918 (11th edition, 1941) • Volume IX – The Royal Australian Navy, 1914–1918 (9th edition, 1941) • Volume X – The Australians at Rabaul. The Capture and Administration of the German Possessions in the Southern Pacific (10th edition, 1941) • Volume XI – Australia During the War (7th edition, 1941) • Volume XII – Photographic record of the war Note: the above volumes have live hyperlinks in the text. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Borden Battery Posted 11 September , 2010 Author Share Posted 11 September , 2010 *Canadian Great War Project This massive database and reference website enables one to research Canadians who participated in the Great War – perhaps the first place to begin any serious research. The website is very extensive and the features are beyond a short abstract - the reader should allocate several hours to fully appreciate it. At present there are over 116,000 database records of individual soldiers in the database. In addition, a significant data base of some Nominal Rolls has also been developed. Not all entries have full details but these are being built up soldier by soldier. In addition, there is now a “GrandsonMicheal” section which greatly facilitates the access and reading of many of the digitized CEF war diaries and now a section of BEF war diaries. Marc Leroux is always looking for a few dedicated volunteers to assist in expanding the records base. [A Marc Leroux website][CEF Study Group – Updated Aug 2010] http://www.canadiangreatwarproject.com Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Borden Battery Posted 11 September , 2010 Author Share Posted 11 September , 2010 The Memory Project - The Great War The Memory Project is one of The Historica-Dominion Institute’s most successful educational programs. Founded in 2001, the Memory Project connects veterans and Canadian Forces personnel with students online and in classrooms across the country. The veterans in The Memory Project represent a wide range of conflicts, including the First World War, Second World War, Korean War, Peacekeeping Operations and modern conflicts. Our volunteer speakers share stories of their service experience and help today’s young people understand the selfless sacrifices Canada’s men and women made and continue to make in war and peacetime. [CEF Study Group - Updated Aug 2010] http://66.241.252.164/digital-archive/wwII-index2.cfm Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Borden Battery Posted 11 September , 2010 Author Share Posted 11 September , 2010 Search the First World War Nominal Roll - Australian Imperial Forces The First World War Nominal Roll is a single alphabetic listing of approximately 324,000 names of members of the Australian Imperial Force (AIF) who served overseas during the First World War. The Nominal Roll consists of digitized images of the Official Records series AWM133, Nominal Roll of Australian Imperial Force who left Australia for service abroad, 1914-1918 War. The roll was compiled before October 1919. The sources on which the roll was based are not known. The roll includes the names of those who served with the Australian Flying Corps and Australian Medical Corps, but not the names of those who served with the Australian Naval and Military Expeditionary Force. [CEF Study Group - Sept 2010] http://www.awm.gov.au/research/people/nominal_rolls/first_world_war/ *Jasta Boelcke - German Squadron of the Great War This is a very detailed and very high quality website is features and detail beyond what an abstract can outline. The pages of Jasta Boelcke are devoted to Hauptmann (Captain) Oswald Boelcke and his famous Jasta 2. It was Boelcke who realized that the German Air Forces had to get organized in squadrons (Jagdstaffeln) if they wanted to fight effectively against the enemy. Also it was Boelcke who wrote down his tactics and experiences in a document called “The Dicta Boelcke" - a set of guidelines being still followed today by the pilots of modern jet fighter squadrons. On this site you will find historical accurate information about Oswald Boelcke and his Jasta as well as stories about other German Aces and pictures of aircraft on display at various museums. Highly recommended as one of the premier aviation Great War websites. [CEF Study Group - June 2005] http://jastaboelcke.de/ Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Borden Battery Posted 11 September , 2010 Author Share Posted 11 September , 2010 Western Front Association The Western Front Association was formed with the aim of furthering interest in the period 1914-1918, to perpetuate the memory, courage and comradeship of all those who served their countries in France and Flanders and their own countries during The Great War. The object of The Association is to educate the public in the history of The Great War with particular reference to the Western Front. The information and short articles are very well presented and this site should be "book-marked" by the serious student of the Great War. A significant number of Great War website links are also on this website. See Great War Discussion Forums - Part 7 for details on Front Forum: The Great War 1914-18. [CEF Study Group][updated - Sept 2010] http://www.westernfrontassociation.com Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Borden Battery Posted 11 September , 2010 Author Share Posted 11 September , 2010 World War I Casualties of Indian Forces Commemorated in France This simple website presents a long list the fallen soldiers of the Indian Forces by name, military unit, and short details on death, family information and by cemetery. In addition, there is a nice selection of photographs interspersed throughout the text. Of note, almost every surname is Singh. [CEF Study Group - June 2006] http://www.sikhspectrum.com/112003/sikharmynames1.htm Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Borden Battery Posted 12 September , 2010 Author Share Posted 12 September , 2010 Aboriginal Veterans Tribute Website This website honours Canada's Aboriginal veterans and is dedicated to their descendants. The website features a wide range of tables listing Aboriginal soldiers by unit and actions, officer lists and NCO lists, and short biographies on many soldiers. The compilation includes over 5300 names and brings forward a topic area in need of greater research. [Recommended by 1st Motors][CEF Study Group - Sept 2010] http://www.vcn.bc.ca/~jeffrey1/tribute.htm Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Borden Battery Posted 12 September , 2010 Author Share Posted 12 September , 2010 Researching Canadian Soldiers of the First World War - By Michael O'Leary; The Regimental Rogue The following element from the main Regimental Rogue website provides a brief but very clear introduction to researching Canadian soldiers of the First World. It is highly recommended as one of the first websites to consider when starting your research. The material represents many hours of planning by the author and will save the reader, many more hours in their initial research on the soldier under review. Experienced researchers will also benefit from this organized topic treatment. The following layout (hot URL links per part) will take the reader on an organized research path. This part of the newly updated parent website (http://regimentalrogue.com/ from Part 8 of this List ) . [CEF Study Group - Sept 2010] Note: Each Part has a hot hyperlink on the main list. • Part 1: Find your Man (or Woman) • Part 2: The Service Record • Part 3: Court Martial Records • Part 4: War Diaries and Unit Histories • Part 5: Casualties • Part 6: Researching Honours and Awards • Part 7: Deciphering Battlefield Location Information • Part 8: More Mapping Information • Part 9: Matching Battlefield Locations to the Modern Map • Part 10: Service Numbers; More than meets the eye • Part 11: Rank, no simple progression • Part 12: Medals; Pip, Squeak, Wilfred and the whole gang • Part 13: Evacuation to Hospital • Part 14: The Wounded and Sick • Part 15: Crime … • Part 16: … and Punishment http://regimentalrogue.com/misc/researching_first_world_war_soldiers_part1.htm This was posted elsewhere, but I have included with the recommended websites on the CEF Study Group List. Borden Battery Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Borden Battery Posted 13 September , 2010 Author Share Posted 13 September , 2010 German Colonial Uniforms This website was designed to cover only the defenders of German East Africa, German South West Africa, Cameroon, Togo, Tsingtao and the German Pacific Colonies during the First World War 1914-18. It has now been expanded to include all German Overseas Expeditions during the Imperial period. This includes the Colonial Troops ("Schutztruppe"), Colonial Police ("Polizeitruppe"), East Asian Expeditionary Corps and Occupation Brigade, German units in the Ottoman Empire 1914-18, Marine Infantry ("Seebatallione") and overseas land based units of the Imperial Navy ("Kaiserliche Marine"). Also covered on this website are other curious related units such as Austro-Hungarian Overseas Forces, the German-Afghan Mission, the Bamum Private Army, Germans in the Shanghai Volunteer Corps and more.[A Chris Dale website] [CEF Study Group - Sept 2010] http://www.germancolonialuniforms.co.uk/ The Soldiers Burden - Perspective from the German Side This website serves as a monument to all soldiers who fought and all casualties of World War 1 and the Colonial Wars in the period leading up to World War 2. It intends to honor soldiers of all nationalities and all races. The material on this site is new and unique from several perspectives; information is provided on uniforms, weapons, battles, letters from individual soldiers and numerous other aspects of the Great War from the German perspective. The serious reader on the Great War will enjoy and learn much from this website. [CEF Study Group - Sept 2010] http://www.trenchfighter.homepage.t-online.de/40020.html Canada’s Siberian Expedition - Экспедиция Канады в Сибирь The Siberian Expedition Virtual Exhibition and Digital Archive was created by the University of Victoria Humanities Computing and Media Centre. The purpose is to make the forgotten story of the 4,200 Canadians who served in Vladivostok. This tri-lingual learning resource combines the accessible Story with a comprehensive Digital Archive – preserving and providing access to more than 2,200 archival photographs, documents, and works of war art on this chaotic moment in the history of Canada, Russia, and the world. Learning Resources have also been developed for students and educators. [Recommended by Avidgenie][CEF Study Group - Sept 2010] http://www.siberianexpedition.ca/index.php?lang=english Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Borden Battery Posted 13 September , 2010 Author Share Posted 13 September , 2010 *The Matrix Project - Canadian Expeditionary Force Study Group The Matrix Project is a unique element of the CEF Study Group. Initially developed and hosted on an associated CEF member's website, the project is an integral part of the CEFSG. The Matrix is a web-based database of collective information provided by the CEFSG Members and provides information on all of the structure and components of the CEF during 1914 to 1919. The main CEF Matrix (the Army Corps and Army Troops) is supported by a number of "Utility Functions" for both the inexperienced and seasoned researcher. The Utility Functions are: Matrix Updates, Navigation Chart, Unit Summary Tables, Great War Maps, CEF Study Group Recommended Websites, Common Abbreviations, ORBAT Directory, and War Diary Links. The Matrix presents most of the information in a "loosely defined" Order of Battle [ORBAT] format. In addition, the Matrix Section has re-transcribed Official History of the Canadian Army in the First World War Canadian Expeditionary Force, 1914-1919, Colonel G. W. L. Nicholson, and C.D. as a true facsimile of the original document. [CEF Study Group – Jan 2007 – Updated] • http://www.cefresearch.com/matrix/ NOTE: A correctly paginated document at with maps and a Google Earth overlay is now available at http://cefresearch.com/matrix/Nicholson/ For detailed information on The Matrix please see : http://www.cefresearch.com/matrix/ *The CEF Paper Trail - Brett Payne Website An Unofficial Guide to the Official Canadian Army Service Records from the Great War This project involves collating examples of each type of document found in a soldier's World War I Canadian Expeditionary Force Service Records. The guide shows researchers what they may expect in a soldiers' service records. It's important to be aware that you will only find a selection of these records in your particular CEF soldier's file. A very well done summary of representative documents and invaluable for any student of the Great War. [Note: Some images will be slow to load under dial-up access.][CEF Study Group - July 2005] http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com/~brett/cef/cefpapertrail.html#top Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Borden Battery Posted 13 September , 2010 Author Share Posted 13 September , 2010 First AIF Order of Battle 1914-1918 This very extensive website is intended to provide a reference tool for the reader or researcher of Australian military history and for the genealogist. It lists the units and formations of the First AIF along with information about insignia, where they were raised, when they departed Australia with transport ship names, and where they served. There is data on nominal rolls, medical units, officers killed etc. A very comprehensive data base type of website. [CEF Study Group - Sept 2010] http://www.aif.adfa.edu.au:8888/index.html Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Borden Battery Posted 13 September , 2010 Author Share Posted 13 September , 2010 *The Somme Battlefields - Paul Reed The website was established to mark the 90th Anniversary of the Battle of the Somme - an extended battle which claimed the lives of more than 150,000 soldiers from Britain and the Commonwealth. This website was launched to commemorate the men who fought and died in the fields of Picardy. It contains much information on this specific battle and will also be of use to anyone thinking of traveling to this region of France. There is also a discussion forum on this website. In December 2006 the discussion forum was locked for year 2007 but will remain online as an archive. [CEF Study Group – Jan 2007 Updated] http://www.somme-1916.com/ The First World War. Com - The War to End All Wars The purpose of this extensive website is to provide an overview of the First World War and a number of its elements. The site contains a drop-down menu of key battles and major themes across the masthead. In addition, there is a wide selection of sections and sub-sections which are too numerous to list. A summary of the site-metrics best outlines the details of this site: 4,600 Photographs, 5,100 Audio Files, 155 Video Files, 140 Battle Summaries, 140 Biographies, 700 Encyclopedia Entries, 3,100 Diaries & Memoirs, 100 Feature Articles, 110 Poems, 140 Propaganda Posters and 650 Primary Source Documents 520. This was one of the first sites selected by the CEF Study Group. [A Michael Duffy website][CEF Study Group - August 2006 - Updated] http://www.firstworldwar.com Pro Patria Mori - Gommecourt 'Pro Patria Mori' - the web site - is dedicated to the memory of the men of the BEF and the Imperial German Army who died at Gommecourt on Saturday, 1st July 1916. The London Scottish and seven other battalions of the 56th Division went 'over the top' to storm Gommecourt - a village recognized as the strongest position in the German lines. This very well designed and presented website sets a new standard in documentation, referenced information and in presentation. Pro Patria Mori is broken down into the following links: Home, The Plan, The Place, The Men, The Weapons , The Battle, The Aftermath, Memorials & Graves, Links & Sources. [it is sweet and proper to die for one's country][An Alan MacDonald Website][CEF Study Group - April 2006] http://www.gommecourt.co.uk Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Borden Battery Posted 13 September , 2010 Author Share Posted 13 September , 2010 Imperial War Museum - United Kingdom The Imperial War Museum is a multi-branch national museum founded in 1917 to record the story of the Great War and the contributions made to it by the peoples of the Empire. It maintain collections of works of art, which include over 15,000 paintings, drawings and sculptures and 30,000 posters; objects ranging from aircraft, armoured fighting vehicles and naval vessels to uniforms, badges, personal equipment, and medals and decorations; documents, both British and foreign; printed books comprising a national reference library of over 155,000 items; 120 million feet of cine film and over 6,500 hours of video tape; over 6 million photographs and photographic negatives and transparencies, and some 32,000 recorded hours of historical sound recordings. [CEF Study Group] http://www.iwm.org.uk/ Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Borden Battery Posted 13 September , 2010 Author Share Posted 13 September , 2010 Chailey 1914-1918 This website is a tribute to the men and women of Chailey during the First World War: those who nursed or were nursed there; those who answered their country's call; those who lie in some corner of a foreign field. This website comprises separate sections on Chailey Parish, the 'hospitals': Hickwells and Beechland House, and the protagonists: patients, nurses and Chailey's men. A narrative, The Hospital Way tells the full story of Chailey's Great War. It is a careful and detailed documentation of this specific district and their actions and lives during the war. [Paul Nixon Website][CEF Study Group - April 2006] http://www.chailey1914-1918.net *The Old Front Line This is a web site dedicated to the history and battlefields of the Great War 1914-1918 and provides information about the war and on how to visit the battlefields in France and Flanders. It compliments the research and tour guide operation of Paul Reed [military historian and author of several books in the 'Battleground Europe' series published by Pen & Sword][CEF Study Group] http://battlefields1418.50megs.com/ Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Borden Battery Posted 13 September , 2010 Author Share Posted 13 September , 2010 Austro-Hungarian Land Forces Discussion Forum This unique forum is for the discussion of the Austro-Hungarian Land Forces for the 1848-1938 period and includes about 800 members Also see: German & Austrian Great War Websites - Part 24] for a related website. This site offers the unique opportunity to discuss the Great War from the Other side of the Line. [CEF Study Group – Updated Aug 2010] http://p205.ezboard.com/faustrohungarianlandforcesdiscussionforumfrm0 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Borden Battery Posted 14 September , 2010 Author Share Posted 14 September , 2010 Cross & Cockade International Cross & Cockade International (CCI) is the First World War Aviation Historical Society with around 1,500 members in 25 countries all over the world. It publishes a quarterly, 72-page journal with an article index back to 1970. There is a detailed research databases on a wide range of items including aircraft and engine serial numbers. There is also a discussion group. [CEF Study Group - June 2005] http://www.crossandcockade.com/main.htm The Aerodrome This website is very extensive in its documentation of the air war including cross-indexing of aircraft, aces, serial numbers of aircraft and pilot victories. Emphasis is visual and with visual statistics. The discussion forum includes about 3100 members, over 195,000 postings with discussion threads tending to be on specific aircraft and airmen rather than historic discussion. Therefore, an excellent site for researching specific topics on Great War aerial combat. [Recommendation by Brett Payne / emma gee][CEF Study Group - Jan 2006 - Updated] http://www.theaerodrome.com/ Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Borden Battery Posted 14 September , 2010 Author Share Posted 14 September , 2010 * Pte. Richard William Mercer - 1st Canadian Motor Machine Gun Brigade The website publishes the personal letters by an ordinary Canadian soldier from 1915 to 1919. The site makes extensive use of footnotes to explain the background and context of the comments of a young private in the Borden Motor Machine Gun Battery of the Canadian Expeditionary Force. He served at the Battle of Hill 70, Passchendaele, the Ludendorff Offensive and the Last Hundred Days. [Dwight Mercer/Borden Battery website courtesy of Brett Payne][CEF Study Group] http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com/~brett/cmgc/rwm_letters.html The Canadian Letters and Images Project This site features a strong selection of personal letters [235 separate authors] from Canadians in the Great War. The site has been completely redesigned with new features, such as search capabilities, and a greatly expanded range of letter materials. The search feature is a very welcome addition. [CEF Study Group - Updated Aug 2010] http://www.canadianletters.ca/collectionsMain.php Letters Home from the Front World War I - South Shore Genealogical Society These letters are transcribed from, and courtesy of, the Berwick Register newspaper, Berwick NS, by Phil and Stephanie Vogler. The Register Extracts and Vital Statistics are at: Berwick Register Extracts Project - a site created by the Voglers consisting of extracts from the Berwick Register newspaper. [Recommendation by 2004Springy][CEF Study Group - Jan 2006] http://www.rootsweb.com/~nslssgs/wwone4.htm Memories of the Forgotten War: The World War I - Diary of Pte. V. E. Goodwin The memoirs of Vincent Goodwin offer a window into the forgotten times of World War One. We have taken excerpts from Dr. Beatty's writings on Mr. Goodwin's diaries that were particularly interesting or relevant to our coverage of the War. Text quoted is that of Mr. Goodwin with narration by Dr. Beatty. [CEF Study Group] http://www.mta.ca/library/courage/memoirsfromworldwari.html William Peden - 8th Battalion Royal Winnipeg Rifles The personal website included the recollections of Pte. William Peden, including his training and preparation for World War I with the 8th Battalion Royal Winnipeg Rifles, his arrival in France in which he describes the Second Battle of Ypres where he survived the first German gas attack of the war, and a Post War Retrospective. As well, there are recollections and many humorous stories of life and times in Scotland in the late 1890's and in Canada at the turn of the century. [CEF Study Group][updated - March 2006] http://www.hcpconsulting.ca/granddad/hist002.htm Albert Carter's Documents from the Great War This simple website presents documents [documents, postcards and photos] of Private Albert Carter, an Australian soldier who fought in France during the First World War with the 4th/2nd Pioneers of the Australian Imperial Forces. [CEF Study Group - April 2006] http://home.vicnet.net.au/~foothist/ww1_resources_fhs/albert_carter/home_page.html The Diary of Alvin York by Alvin C. York The Diary of Sgt. York. [Mar 2006 - CEF Study Group] http://acacia.pair.com/Acacia.Vignettes/The.Diary.of.Alvin.York.html#Introduction Edward Gilmore (known as Hughie) Dodd’s Diaries This account describes Edward Gilmore (known as Hughie) Dodd’s activities at the front line maintaining and repairing pumps and electrical equipment. Hughie enlisted in Perth after serving in the 84th infantry. In March, 1916 he was appointed to the No. 6 Tunnelling Coy with the rank of "Sapper". The diary was transcribed verbatim by his grandson, Keith Hugh Dodd and the original has been donated by the family to The Army Museum of Western Australia. [CEF Study Group - April 2006] http://members.iinet.net.au/~dodd/gail/memorial/hughie/contents.html Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Borden Battery Posted 14 September , 2010 Author Share Posted 14 September , 2010 Bulgarian Artillery: 1878 - 1918 The aim of this site is to provide information to the English-speaking community about the history of the Bulgarian artillery, and in general of the Bulgarian Army, till the end of the First World War, collecting and translating information from Western and Eastern sources. The website provides technical information on a wide range of items related to artillery in this theatre of the Great War incluidng naval and coastal artillery, history, orders of battle, artillery regiments, ammunition, gun sites and a bibliography. [CEF Study Group - Sept 2010] http://www.bulgarianartillery.it/ Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Borden Battery Posted 14 September , 2010 Author Share Posted 14 September , 2010 First World War Diaries - AIF The war diaries generally consist of war diary or intelligence summary sheets located at the beginning of each diary which record the date of each entry, the unit’s location, a summary of events and any remarks or references to appendices. The material is listed in some 35 class categories and the sub-class categories. At present, the amount of original manuscript material is minimal, however, the reader will obtain a general idea of the organization of the AIF from the categories provided. The Canadian Archives work is still the standard. [CEF Study Group - Sept 2010] http://www.awm.gov.au/collection/war_diaries/first_world_war/ Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Borden Battery Posted 15 September , 2010 Author Share Posted 15 September , 2010 The Death of Manfred von Richthofen: - Who fired the fatal shot? (Dr M. Geoffrey Miller) First published in "Sabretache", the Journal and Proceedings of the Military History Society of Australia, Vol. XXXIX, No. 2, June 1998, and © 1998, M. Geoffrey Mille. This document carries the debate as to whether Captain Roy Brown, a Canadian in the Royal Flying Corps or an Australian soldier brought down the Red Baron.[CEF Study Group - Sept 2010] http://net.lib.byu.edu/estu/wwi/comment/richt.htm WHO KILLED VON RICHTHOFEN? by Lieutenant-Colonel David Bashow A short "Views and Opinions" paper by a member of the Canadian Armed Forces and his discussion regarding the great debate regarding the likely cause of death of Rittmeister Manfred Freiherr von Richthofen. [CEF Study Group - Sept 2010] http://www.journal.forces.gc.ca/vo4/no1/who-qui-eng.asp Rittmeister Manfred von Richthofen - Gaston Graf Website Jaste Boelkle A short piece on von Richthofen from the major Jaste Boekle website. This section contains information and pictures related to the most famous pupil of Oswald Boelcke - Manfred, Freiherr von Richthofen. [CEF Study Group - Sept 2010] http://www.jastaboelcke.de/aces/m_v_richthofen/manfred-toc.htm Manfred Albrecht Freiherr von Richthofen - The Aerodrome Forum The Aerodrome website includes a short biograpyt of von Richthofen, a detailed list of aircraft shot down and reference books for further reading. [CEF Study Group - Sept 2010] http://www.theaerodrome.com/aces/germany/richthofen2.php Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Borden Battery Posted 15 September , 2010 Author Share Posted 15 September , 2010 Military History Society of Manitoba The objectives of the Military History Society of Manitoba (1987) are to collate information on military material culture and history and to acquire new knowledge through research and study with special emphasis on Manitoba units and their activities. It is also the Society's aim to promote the study of military history and share its resources with non- members. Members give public lectures, answer inquiries and occasionally put on public displays. The Society maintains a library, archives, photo files, and the Legion House Museum. [Recommended by Bruce Tascona - CEFSG][CEF Study Group - Sept 2010] http://www.mhsm.ca/Joomla/ Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Borden Battery Posted 15 September , 2010 Author Share Posted 15 September , 2010 Hellfire Corner Great War - Home of Tom Morgan Military Books A significant number of short articles by a range of authors, book listings and other Great War website links. The book listing is extensive featuring the book cover, short abstract and price. The site includes battlefield guides for today, war memorials, individual articles on specific soldiers and general interest articles by a wide range of international researchers. [CEF Study Group – Updated Aug 2010] http://www.fylde.demon.co.uk/welcome.htm The London Gazette - Great War Archive The London, Edinburgh, and Belfast Gazettes are the official newspapers of record in the United Kingdom and include notices relating to State, Parliament, Planning, Transport, Public Finance, etc. There are a number of supplements to the London Gazette, which cover single subjects. These include: the Queen’s Birthday Honours and the New Years Honours, Imperial Service Medal, and the Ministry of Defence including promotions and military awards. This section is a data base search for the Great War. Results in .pdf format. [Recommended by Richard Laughton][CEF Study Group - Oct 2008] http://www.gazettes-online.co.uk/AdvancedSearch.aspx?GeoType=London Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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