The challenges of treating First World War casualties on the battlefield and at sea are revealed in online records now available from Britain's National Archives.
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Former US envoys to advise WWI Centennial Commission
The US World War One Centennial Commission has formed a Diplomatic Advisory Board to help with its mission of commemorating Americans who served in the First World War.
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United States World War One Centennial Commission
The US World War I Centennial Commission, created by Congress in 2013, is the lead organiser for America’s World War One commemorations.
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Call for papers: ‘Beyond the Western Front – The Global First World War’
The Centre for Hidden Histories in the UK is seeking contributions for a 2016 conference and community event, entitled Beyond the Western Front: The Global First World War.
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Not So Quiet: Stepdaughters of War
Publisher’s Description:’First published in London in 1930, Not So Quiet… (on the Western Front) describes a group of British women ambulance drivers on the French front lines during World War I, surviving shell fire, cold, and their punishing commandant, “Mrs. Bitch.” The novel takes the guise of an autobiography by Smith, pseudonym for Evadne Price.’
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News of My Boy Jack? – Solving the mystery of John Kipling
A century of mystery about the fate of author Rudyard Kipling’s son, Jack, during the Battle of Loos in 1915 may have been solved, according to new research published by the Western Front Association.
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The Great War in the Middle East – Sandhurst conference April 2016
An international conference re-examining the origins, conduct and consequences of the First World War in the Middle East is to be held at the Royal Military Academy Sandhurst from April 20th-21st 2016.
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New Zealand honours its Great War tunnellers with new memorial
The soldiers of the New Zealand Tunnelling Company are being remembered with the dedication of a new memorial in the former mining town of Waihi.
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The Great War: The People’s Story
Publisher’s Description:’The Great War: The People’s Story is both a meticulously researched piece of narrative history and a deeply moving remembrance of the extraordinary acts of extremely ordinary people.’
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Centenary update – Navy Museum to challenge ‘belief Jutland was a German victory’
The National Museum of the Royal Navy says its Jutland Centenary exhibition, opening on May 19th 2016, will challenge “the belief that the battle was a German victory.”
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