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Tag Archives: First World War
Imperial War Museum
The Imperial War Museum have started adding photos of IWW soldiers to Flickr. See http://www.flickr.com/photos/imperialwarmuseum/sets/72157629487462489/with/6797269742/ These images are amongst the first items collected by IWM when it was founded in 1917 to record everybody’s experiences of the First World War. In … Continue reading
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Tagged Britain, First World War, Flickr, Genealogy, History, Imperial War Museum, World War I
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Great War Photos
This is an amazing new site – Military historian Paul Reed, a regular contributor to Your Family Tree magazine and to several BBC history productions, has launched a new blog entitled Great War Photos at http://greatwarphotos.wordpress.com . The blog will … Continue reading
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Tagged BBC, First World War, Genealogy, History, Military history, Twentieth Century, Wars and Conflicts, World War I
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Europeana Collections 1914-1918: Remembering the First World War
Europeana Collections 1914-1918 will create by 2014 – the centenary of the outbreak of the First World War – a substantial digital collection of material from national libraries and other partners from eight countries that found themselves on different sides of … Continue reading
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Tagged digital collections, First World War, Genealogy, Library, Wars and Conflicts, World War I
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World War l medals details on Ancestry web site
Ancestry http://www.ancestry.co.uk has published 880,000 First World War medals details for the first time, together with its First World War service and pension records. Image via Wikipedia The medals information includes details of Silver War Badge holders. The Silver War Badge was issued … Continue reading
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Tagged First World War, Genealogy, medals, Silver War Badge, War Office, White feather, World War I, Wound Badge
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IWM’s First World War Centenary Programme
http://www.1914.org/faces/ As part of the IWM’s First World War Centenary Programme, photographs from the Museum’s ‘Bond of of Sacrifice’ are being uploaded to the photo-sharing site Flickr in a set called ‘Faces of the First World War’. On Armistice Day … Continue reading
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Tagged First World War, Flickr, Genealogy, History, World War I, World War II
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