IWM - Faces of the First World War

[Seadog]

The Imperial War Museum is posting photos of soldiers etc to a new Flickr group and inviting the public to add any information to the individual images. The first 100 are now available and to comment you must join Flickr although this is free for a basic membership. I have no doubt that members of the GWF will be able to make valuable contributions to this project considering the level of research expertise available

Imperial War Museum - Flickr

IWM Info

Norman

[Martin Bennitt]

BBC story here

cheers Martin B

[Moriaty]

I see that Field Marshal Sir John French is included in the first 100!

Moriaty

[Andy Wade]

Thank you Norman.

[kenneth505]

First World War Centenary at IWM

We will be uploading new images to Faces of the First World War every weekday between now and the 100th anniversary of the outbreak of the war in August 2014.

It lends a remarkable sense of the magnitude to consider that even adding 100 new images each weekday they won't even reach 10% of UK participants by the centenary. But what a tremendous project and what a solemn way to lose oneself in the faces and people.

[spof]

You can upload your own photos here

http://www.flickr.com/groups/your_faces_ww1

[oflackn]

IWM has an intresting podcast also: Voices of the First World War

[Roxy]

Geoff has put together an alphabetical list of the photos:

http://www.hut-six.co.uk/IWM/iwm-photo-index.php

Roxy