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Talk:2nd Battalion King's Own Scottish Borderers, UK

2019-02-26T16:22:17Z

GavinRobinson: GavinRobinson moved page Talk:2nd Battalion King's Own Scottish Borderers, UK to Talk:2nd Battalion King's Own Scottish Borderers, British Army: hadn't been moved when naming conventions changed

#REDIRECT [[Talk:2nd Battalion King's Own Scottish Borderers, British Army]]

Talk:2nd Battalion King's Own Scottish Borderers, British Army

2019-02-26T16:22:16Z

I've had an email (back in March) from Stuart Wilson, who said:

<blockquote>
I research KOSB soldiers of WW1 - the Alexander Thomson you are looking for is:

16800 KOSB, then 248934 Labour Corps

He is incorrectly numbered on the Labour Corps medal rolls as 167800. However, his correct number, 16800, is stated on a casualty list published 1 June 1915. It is also shown on his surviving service file (WO 364 series at TNA), from which a couple of years ago I noted a basic summary of his service:

Born abt 1895, Eyemouth, Berwickshire; father, William; resided Cocklaw, Ayton, Berwickshire; farm worker, enlisted at Berwick, 23/11/1914; BEF 22/04/1915-08/05/1915 with reinforcement draft to 2nd KOSB; 05/05/1915, GSW hand; 09/05/1915-26/01/1918, home service with 3rd KOSB, then as Private TR/1/4102, 39th Training Reserve Bn & then as Private 248934 Labour Corps, 454th H.S. Employment Coy, Labour Corps; BEF 27/01/1918-17/10/1918 as L/Cpl with 846th Area Employment Coy., Labour Corps; 18/10/1918, home service with 463rd Agricultural Coy, Labour Corps; 06/04/1919, to Class Z Army Reserve
</blockquote>

Talk:How you can help

2018-08-16T07:31:55Z

GavinRobinson: Reverted edits by 91.202.204.241 (talk) to last revision by GavinRobinson

== Questions / decisions for discussion ==
Which [[Special:Categories|categories]] are in active use and which are outdated?

Category names tend to use underscores rather than spaces to separate words.
: Actually, is this true anymore? Does it make a difference to performance, readability or links either way? --[[User:Mia|Mia]] ([[User talk:Mia|talk]]) 12:03, 8 March 2015 (PDT)

=== Categories change log ===
As categories are added for individual items they occasionally need tidying up.

I've 'Units with women's personal narratives' to the more general Women_in_WWI. --[[User:Mia|Mia]] ([[User talk:Mia|talk]]) 11:52, 8 March 2015 (PDT)

== Things that need to be done but aren't quite neat tasks yet ==
* Update categories used to reference 'units' rather than 'battalions' for future flexibility (and see if there's a better way to apply categories to new pages)
:: I've installed http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:Replace_Text to change Battalions_without_personal_narratives to Units_needing_personal_narratives --[[User:Mia|Mia]] ([[User talk:Mia|talk]]) 04:36, 17 December 2014 (PST)

* Add a WYSIWYG editor - the one currently used on Wikipedia doesn't seem stable yet and might conflict with other extensions used. --[[User:Mia|Mia]] ([[User talk:Mia|talk]]) 04:36, 17 December 2014 (PST)

* Track down missing images (presumably after upgrade to 1.24) eg those without thumbnails on [[Special:ListFiles]] --[[User:Mia|Mia]] ([[User talk:Mia|talk]]) 16:21, 26 January 2015 (PST)

* Sort out various pages reporting script errors in Category:Pages_with_script_errors --[[User:Mia|Mia]] ([[User talk:Mia|talk]]) 16:21, 26 January 2015 (PST)

* Delete [[Template:Pipe/doc]] if it's superseded and not used? --[[User:Mia|Mia]] ([[User talk:Mia|talk]]) 16:56, 26 January 2015 (PST)

* Review performance of Infoboxes, including <strike>reducing the use of unnecessary #ifs</strike> in [[Template:Infobox military unit]], [[Template:Infobox command structure]] and [[Template:Infobox theatre of war]] to reduce processing overhead. See [[User_talk:Mia#Fixing_infobox.2FLua_errors]] for background --[[User:Mia|Mia]] ([[User talk:Mia|talk]]) 16:56, 26 January 2015 (PST)

Talk:How you can help

2018-07-30T07:36:57Z

GavinRobinson: Reverted edits by 85.173.165.36 (talk) to last revision by Mia

Talk:Main Page

2018-07-14T10:13:29Z

GavinRobinson: deleted spam

58th Battalion, Canadian Expeditionary Force (CEF)

2017-12-29T08:59:43Z

GavinRobinson: moved lineage to correct parameters, added dates and refs for name

{{Infobox military unit
| country = Canada
| service = Canadian Army
| branch = Canadian Expeditionary Force
| type = Infantry
| specific_type = Infantry battalion
| size_at_full_strength = 1000
| start_date = 20/4/1915
| created =
| start_ref = [[Wikipedia:58th Battalion, CEF]]
| unit_name1 = 58th Battalion, Canadian Expeditionary Force
| unit_name1_start_date = 20/4/1915
| unit_name1_end_date = 15/9/1920
| unit_name1_reason_for_change = disbanded
| unit_name1_ref = [[Wikipedia:58th Battalion, CEF]]
| alternate_unit_names = 58th Canadian Battalion
| end_date = 15/9/1920
| disbanded = Disbanded at end of war service but identity perpetuated by Royal Regiment of Canada.
| end_ref = [[Wikipedia:58th Battalion, CEF]]
}}
{{Infobox command structure
| command_start_date =
| command_end_date =
| parent = 9th Infantry Brigade, Canadian Expeditionary Force (CEF)
| parent_level = {{BritishBrigade}}
| relationship_type = Tactical
}}
{{Infobox theatre of war
| date_entered_ToW =
| date_left_ToW =
| ToW_code = 1
}}



== Personal narratives ==


== Related media ==


== Official sources ==

=== {{War diary heading}} ===


{{War diary needed}}

=== Unit histories ===

=== Other official documents ===


== Other sources ==




{{DEFAULTSORT:Canadian Expeditionary Force Battalion 058}}
[[Category:Units needing personal narratives]]
[[Category:Canadian Army]]
[[Category:Canadian infantry battalions]]
[[Category:Canadian Expeditionary Force infantry battalions]]

== References ==

<references />

Talk:HMAS AE1

2017-12-22T16:49:46Z

GavinRobinson: paywalled link - need alternative

Looks like the link I added is paywalled - I only managed to get a preview of it the first time I went there. Would be good to find an alternative version of the story and pictures that everyone can get.--[[User:GavinRobinson|GavinRobinson]] ([[User talk:GavinRobinson|talk]]) 08:49, 22 December 2017 (PST)

HMAS AE1

2017-12-21T08:42:45Z

GavinRobinson: /* Other sources */ cat

{{Infobox military unit
| country = Australia
| service = Royal Australian Navy
| type = Ship
| specific_type = Submarine
| size_at_full_strength =
| start_date =
| created =
| alternate_unit_names =
| end_date =
| disbanded =
}}



== Personal narratives ==


== Related media ==


* [http://www.theaustralian.com.au/news/missing-ww1-submarine-ae1-found-with-underwater-camera/news-story/685bb8a00fc0f65a5ac82051f944e64f news story at The Australian] about the discovery of the wreck of AE1, including photos from underwater camera.

== Official sources ==

=== {{War diary heading}} ===


{{War diary needed}}

=== Unit histories ===

* [https://www.awm.gov.au/units/unit_10759.asp Australian War Memorial]

=== Other official documents ===


== Other sources ==




{{DEFAULTSORT:AE1}}
[[Category:Units needing personal narratives]]
[[Category:Units with related media]]
[[Category:Royal Australian Navy]]

== References ==

<references />

HMAS AE1

2017-12-21T08:42:07Z

GavinRobinson: /* Related media */ wreck discovery

{{Infobox military unit
| country = Australia
| service = Royal Australian Navy
| type = Ship
| specific_type = Submarine
| size_at_full_strength =
| start_date =
| created =
| alternate_unit_names =
| end_date =
| disbanded =
}}



== Personal narratives ==


== Related media ==


* [http://www.theaustralian.com.au/news/missing-ww1-submarine-ae1-found-with-underwater-camera/news-story/685bb8a00fc0f65a5ac82051f944e64f news story at The Australian] about the discovery of the wreck of AE1, including photos from underwater camera.

== Official sources ==

=== {{War diary heading}} ===


{{War diary needed}}

=== Unit histories ===

* [https://www.awm.gov.au/units/unit_10759.asp Australian War Memorial]

=== Other official documents ===


== Other sources ==




{{DEFAULTSORT:AE1}}
[[Category:Units needing personal narratives]]
[[Category:Royal Australian Navy]]

== References ==

<references />

Canadian units in World War I

2017-12-09T10:53:09Z

GavinRobinson: link to CEF wiki

Red links mean there's no page for that battalion yet. If you have information you'd like to add for a battalion, then please create the page and add your information. Don't worry about formatting just yet, we can tidy that up later.

In August 1914 Canada had only 3,100 regular soldiers under arms, 'few countries having entered a major international conflict with less military preparation'.<ref name="test">[http://www.canadiana.ca/en/cef-register Digitizing registers of the Canadian Expeditionary Force]</ref> [http://www.canadiana.ca/en/cef-register Digitizing registers of the Canadian Expeditionary Force] has lots of registers for Canadian units that could help fill out these pages.

See also:

* [http://www.cmp-cpm.forces.gc.ca/dhh-dhp/his/oh-ho/index-eng.asp Canadian official histories] at the Canadian National Defence website.
* [http://cefresearch.ca/wiki/index.php/Main_Page The Canadian Expeditionary Force Study Group wiki]

[[File:C029568k-v8.jpg|thumbnail|right| Enlist! New Names in Canadian History, Library and Archives Canada, Acc. No. 1983-28-826]]

== [[1st Canadian Division]] ==
===[[1st Infantry Brigade, Canadian Expeditionary Force (CEF)|1st Canadian Brigade]]===
[[1st Battalion, Canadian Expeditionary Force (CEF)]]. August 1914 – November 11, 1918;

[[2nd Battalion, Canadian Expeditionary Force (CEF)]]. August 1914 – November 11, 1918;

[[3rd Battalion, Canadian Expeditionary Force (CEF)]]. August 1914 – November 11, 1918;

[[4th Battalion, Canadian Expeditionary Force (CEF)]]. August 1914 – November 11, 1918.

[[1st Machine Gun Company, Canadian Expeditionary Force (CEF)]]

[[1st Brigade Trench Mortar Battery, Canadian Expeditionary Force (CEF)]]

===[[2nd Infantry Brigade, Canadian Expeditionary Force (CEF)|2nd Canadian Brigade]]===
[[5th Battalion, Canadian Expeditionary Force (CEF)]]. August 1914 – November 11, 1918;

[[6th Battalion, Canadian Expeditionary Force (CEF)]]. August 1914 – December 1914 (Became [[Canadian Cavalry Depot]]);

[[7th Battalion, Canadian Expeditionary Force (CEF)]]. August 1914 – November 11, 1918;

[[8th Battalion, Canadian Expeditionary Force (CEF)]]. August 1914 – November 11, 1918;

[[10th Battalion, Canadian Expeditionary Force (CEF)]]. January 1915 – November 11, 1918.

[[2nd Machine Gun Company, Canadian Expeditionary Force (CEF)]]

[[2nd Brigade Trench Mortar Battery, Canadian Expeditionary Force (CEF)]]

===[[3rd Infantry Brigade, Canadian Expeditionary Force (CEF)|3rd Canadian Brigade]]===
[[13th Battalion, Canadian Expeditionary Force (CEF)]]. August 1914 – November 11, 1918.

[[14th Battalion, Canadian Expeditionary Force (CEF)]]. August 1914 – November 11, 1918.

[[15th Battalion, Canadian Expeditionary Force (CEF)]]. August 1914 – November 11, 1918.

[[16th Battalion, Canadian Expeditionary Force (CEF)]]. August 1914 – November 11, 1918.

[[3rd Machine Gun Company, Canadian Expeditionary Force (CEF)]]

[[3rd Brigade Trench Mortar Battery, Canadian Expeditionary Force (CEF)]]

===[[4th Infantry Brigade, Canadian Expeditionary Force (CEF)|4th Canadian Brigade]]===
[[9th Battalion, Canadian Expeditionary Force (CEF)]]. August 1914 – January 1915. To the Canadian Training Depot.

[[10th Battalion, Canadian Expeditionary Force (CEF)]]. August 1914 – January 1915. To the 2nd Canadian Brigade.

[[11th Battalion, Canadian Expeditionary Force (CEF)]]. August 1914 – January 1915. To the Canadian Training Depot.

[[12th Battalion, Canadian Expeditionary Force (CEF)]]. August 1914 – January 1915. To the Canadian Training Depot.

[[4th Machine Gun Company, Canadian Expeditionary Force (CEF)]]

[[4th Brigade Trench Mortar Battery, Canadian Expeditionary Force (CEF)]]

===Pioneers===
[[1st Canadian Pioneer Battalion]]. March 1916 – February 1917. Became the [[9th Canadian Railway Battalion]].

[[107th Canadian Pioneer Battalion]]. March 1917 – May 1918. Absorbed by the [[1st Canadian Engineer Brigade]].

===Attached troops===
[[17th Battalion, Canadian Expeditionary Force (CEF)]]. August 1914 – January 1915. To the Canadian Training Depot.

[[Newfoundland Companies]]. October 1914 – December 1914. Left the division and was made up to battalion strength. The Newfoundland Regiment then joined the British 29th Division in September 1915.

[[1st Machine Gun Battalion, Canadian Expeditionary Force (CEF)]]

[[13th Machine Gun Company, Canadian Expeditionary Force (CEF)]]

== [[2nd Canadian Division]] ==
===[[4th Infantry Brigade, Canadian Expeditionary Force (CEF)|4th Canadian Brigade]]===
[[18th Battalion, Canadian Expeditionary Force (CEF)]]. 1 October 1914 – 11 November 1918;

[[19th Battalion, Canadian Expeditionary Force (CEF)]]. 19 October 1914 – 11 November 1918;

[[20th Battalion, Canadian Expeditionary Force (CEF)]]. October 1914 – 11 November 1918;

[[21st Battalion, Canadian Expeditionary Force (CEF)]]. 19 October 1914 – 11 November 1918.
===[[5th Infantry Brigade, Canadian Expeditionary Force (CEF)|5th Canadian Brigade]]===
[[22nd Battalion, Canadian Expeditionary Force (CEF)]]. 21 October 1914 – 11 November 1918;

[[24th Battalion, Canadian Expeditionary Force (CEF)]]. 22 October 1914 – 11 November 1918;

[[25th Battalion, Canadian Expeditionary Force (CEF)]]. 28 October 1914 – 11 November 1918;

[[26th Battalion, Canadian Expeditionary Force (CEF)]]. 2 November 1914 – 11 November 1918.

[[5th Machine Gun Company, Canadian Expeditionary Force (CEF)]]

[[5th Brigade Trench Mortar Battery, Canadian Expeditionary Force (CEF)]]

===[[6th Infantry Brigade, Canadian Expeditionary Force (CEF)|6th Canadian Brigade]]===
[[27th Battalion, Canadian Expeditionary Force (CEF)]]. 21 October 1914 – 11 November 1918;

[[28th Battalion, Canadian Expeditionary Force (CEF)]]. 19 October 1914 – 11 November 1918;

[[29th Battalion, Canadian Expeditionary Force (CEF)]]. 24 October 1914 – 11 November 1918;

[[31st Battalion, Canadian Expeditionary Force (CEF)]]. 16 November 1914 – 11 November 1918.

[[6th Machine Gun Company, Canadian Expeditionary Force (CEF)]]

[[6th Brigade Trench Mortar Battery, Canadian Expeditionary Force (CEF)]]

===Pioneers===
[[2nd Canadian Pioneer Battalion]]. March 1916 – June 1917. To the [[2nd Canadian Engineer Brigade]].

=== Attached troops ===

[[2nd Machine Gun Battalion, Canadian Expeditionary Force (CEF)]]

[[14th Machine Gun Company, Canadian Expeditionary Force (CEF)]]

== [[3rd Canadian Division]] ==
===[[7th Infantry Brigade, Canadian Expeditionary Force (CEF)|7th Infantry Brigade]]===
[[Royal Canadian Regiment]]. December 1915 – November 11, 1918;

[[Princess Patricia's Canadian Light Infantry]]. December 24, 1915 – November 11, 1918;

[[42nd Battalion, Canadian Expeditionary Force (CEF)]]. December 1915 – November 11, 1918;

[[49th Battalion, Canadian Expeditionary Force (CEF)]]. December 1915 – November 11, 1918.

[[7th Machine Gun Company, Canadian Expeditionary Force (CEF)]]

[[7th Brigade Trench Mortar Battery, Canadian Expeditionary Force (CEF)]]

===[[8th Infantry Brigade, Canadian Expeditionary Force (CEF)|8th Infantry Brigade]]===
[[1st Battalion, Canadian Mounted Rifles, Canadian Expeditionary Force (CEF)]]. December 1915 – November 11, 1918;

[[2nd Battalion, Canadian Mounted Rifles, Canadian Expeditionary Force (CEF)]]. December 1915 – November 11, 1918;

[[4th Battalion, Canadian Mounted Rifles, Canadian Expeditionary Force (CEF)]]. December 1915 – November 11, 1918;

[[5th Battalion, Canadian Mounted Rifles, Canadian Expeditionary Force (CEF)]]. December 1915 – November 11, 1918.

[[8th Machine Gun Company, Canadian Expeditionary Force (CEF)]]

[[8th Brigade Trench Mortar Battery, Canadian Expeditionary Force (CEF)]]

===[[9th Infantry Brigade, Canadian Expeditionary Force (CEF)|9th Infantry Brigade, Canadian Expeditionary Force]]===

(Joined the Division in January 1916)

[[43rd Battalion, Canadian Expeditionary Force (CEF)]]. January 1916 – November 11, 1918;

[[52nd Battalion, Canadian Expeditionary Force (CEF)]]. January 1916 – November 11, 1918;

[[58th Battalion, Canadian Expeditionary Force (CEF)]]. January 1916 – November 11, 1918;

[[60th Battalion, Canadian Expeditionary Force (CEF)]]. January 1916 – April 30, 1917. (Disbanded)

[[116th Battalion, Canadian Expeditionary Force (CEF)]]. April 1917 – November 11, 1918.

[[9th Machine Gun Company, Canadian Expeditionary Force (CEF)]]

[[9th Brigade Trench Mortar Battery, Canadian Expeditionary Force (CEF)]]

===Pioneers===
[[3rd Canadian Pioneer Battalion]]. January 8, 1916 – May 1917 (Disbanded);

[[123rd Canadian Pioneer Battalion]]. March 1917 – June 1918. Became the [[3rd Canadian Engineer Brigade]].

=== Attached troops ===

[[3rd Machine Gun Battalion, Canadian Expeditionary Force (CEF)]]

[[15th Machine Gun Company, Canadian Expeditionary Force (CEF)]]

==[[4th Canadian Division]]==
===[[10th Infantry Brigade, Canadian Expeditionary Force (CEF)|10th Canadian Brigade]]===
[[44th Battalion, Canadian Expeditionary Force (CEF)]]. April 1916 - 11 November 1918. (Re-designated New Brunswick in August 1918);

[[46th Battalion, Canadian Expeditionary Force (CEF)]]. April 1916 - 11 November 1918;

[[47th Battalion, Canadian Expeditionary Force (CEF)]]. April 1916 - 11 November 1918. (Re-designated West Ontario in February 1918);

[[50th Battalion, Canadian Expeditionary Force (CEF)]]. April 1916 - 11 November 1918.

[[10th Machine Gun Company, Canadian Expeditionary Force (CEF)]]

[[10th Brigade Trench Mortar Battery, Canadian Expeditionary Force (CEF)]]

===[[11th Infantry Brigade, Canadian Expeditionary Force (CEF)|11th Canadian Brigade]]===
[[54th Battalion, Canadian Expeditionary Force (CEF)]]. April 1916 - 11 November 1918; later 54th Battalion (Central Ontario)

[[75th Battalion, Canadian Expeditionary Force (CEF)]]. April 1916 - 11 November 1918;

[[87th Battalion, Canadian Expeditionary Force (CEF)]]. June 1916 - 11 November 1918 (transferred from 12th Canadian Brigade);

[[102nd Battalion, Canadian Expeditionary Force (CEF)]]. April 1916 - 11 November 1918.

[[11th Machine Gun Company, Canadian Expeditionary Force (CEF)]]

[[11th Brigade Trench Mortar Battery, Canadian Expeditionary Force (CEF)]]

===[[12th Infantry Brigade, Canadian Expeditionary Force (CEF)|12th Canadian Brigade]]===
[[38th Battalion, Canadian Expeditionary Force (CEF)]]. June 1916 - 11 November 1918;

[[51st Battalion, Canadian Expeditionary Force (CEF)]]. April 1916 - 13 November 1916 (Became the 51st Garrison Battalion);

[[72nd Battalion, Canadian Expeditionary Force (CEF)]]. April 1916 - 11 November 1918;

[[73rd Battalion, Canadian Expeditionary Force (CEF)]]. April 1916 - 19 April 1917 (disbanded);

[[78th Battalion, Canadian Expeditionary Force (CEF)]]. April 1916 - 11 November 1918;

[[85th Battalion, Canadian Expeditionary Force (CEF)]]. April 1917 - 11 November 1918;

[[87th Battalion, Canadian Expeditionary Force (CEF)]]. April 1916 - June 1916. (transferred to 11th Canadian Brigade).

[[12th Machine Gun Company, Canadian Expeditionary Force (CEF)]]

[[12th Brigade Trench Mortar Battery, Canadian Expeditionary Force (CEF)]]

===Pioneers===
[[67th (Western Scot) Pioneer Battalion Canadian Infantry]]. 1 September 1916 – 11 November 1918;

=== Attached troops ===

[[4th Machine Gun Battalion, Canadian Expeditionary Force (CEF)]]

[[16th Machine Gun Company, Canadian Expeditionary Force (CEF)]]

==[[5th Canadian Division]]==
===[[13th Infantry Brigade, Canadian Expeditionary Force (CEF)|13th Canadian Brigade]]===
[[128th Battalion, Canadian Expeditionary Force (CEF)]]. February 1917 - May 1917. Absorbed by the 15th Canadian Reserve Battalion;

[[134th Battalion, Canadian Expeditionary Force (CEF)]]. February 1917 - February 1918. Absorbed by the 12th Canadian Reserve Battalion;

[[160th Battalion, Canadian Expeditionary Force (CEF)]]. February 1917 - February 1918. Absorbed by the 4th Canadian Reserve Battalion;

[[164th Battalion, Canadian Expeditionary Force (CEF)]]. May 1917 - April 1918. Absorbed by the 8th Canadian Reserve Battalion;

[[202nd Battalion, Canadian Expeditionary Force (CEF)]]. February 1917 - May 28, 1918. Absorbed by the 9th Canadian Reserve Battalion;

[[208th Battalion, Canadian Expeditionary Force (CEF)]]. May 1917 - January 3, 1918. Absorbed by the 2nd and 3rd Canadian Reserve Battalions.

===[[14th Infantry Brigade, Canadian Expeditionary Force (CEF)|14th Canadian Brigade]]===
[[125th Battalion, Canadian Expeditionary Force (CEF)]]. February 1917 - April 16, 1918. Absorbed by the 8th Canadian Reserve Battalion;

[[150th Battalion, Canadian Expeditionary Force (CEF)]]. February 1917 - February 15, 1918. Absorbed by the 6th Canadian Reserve Battalion;

[[156th Battalion, Canadian Expeditionary Force (CEF)]]. February 1917 - February 15, 1918. Absorbed by the 6th Canadian Reserve Battalion;

[[161st Battalion, Canadian Expeditionary Force (CEF)]]. February 1917 - February 15, 1918. Absorbed by the 4th Canadian Reserve Battalion.

===[[15th Infantry Brigade, Canadian Expeditionary Force (CEF)|15th Canadian Brigade]]===
[[104th Battalion, Canadian Expeditionary Force (CEF)]]. February 1917 - February 15, 1918. Absorbed by the 13th Canadian Reserve Battalion;

[[119th Battalion, Canadian Expeditionary Force (CEF)]]. February 1917 - April 16, 1918. Absorbed by the 8th Canadian Reserve Battalion;

[[185th Battalion, Canadian Expeditionary Force (CEF)]]. February 1917 - February 15, 1918. Absorbed by the 17th Canadian Reserve Battalion;

[[198th Battalion, Canadian Expeditionary Force (CEF)]]. April 1917 – March 9, 1918. Absorbed by the 3rd Canadian Reserve Battalion;

[[199th Battalion, Canadian Expeditionary Force (CEF)]]. February 1917 - April 1917. Absorbed by the [[23rd Canadian Reserve Battalion Canadian Infantry]].

===Attached Troops===
[[164th Battalion, Canadian Expeditionary Force (CEF)]]. February 1917 - May 1917. To the 13th Canadian Brigade;

[[198th Battalion, Canadian Expeditionary Force (CEF)]]. February 1917 - April 1917. To the 15th Canadian Brigade;

[[208th Battalion, Canadian Expeditionary Force (CEF)]]. February 1917 - May 1917. To the 13th Canadian Brigade;

[[236th Battalion, Canadian Expeditionary Force (CEF)]]. February 1917 - May 1917. Disbanded on March 13, 1918.

[[12 Canadian Field Ambulance]]

===Reserve and unplaced Battalions===
[[1st Canadian Reserve Battalion]]

[[2nd Canadian Reserve Battalion]]

[[3rd Canadian Reserve Battalion]]

[[4th Canadian Reserve Battalion]]

[[6th Canadian Reserve Battalion]]

[[8th Canadian Reserve Battalion]]

[[9th Canadian Reserve Battalion]]

[[12th Canadian Reserve Battalion]]

[[15th Canadian Reserve Battalion]]

[[32nd Battalion, Canadian Expeditionary Force (CEF)]]

[[33rd Battalion, Canadian Expeditionary Force (CEF)]]

[[34th Battalion, Canadian Expeditionary Force (CEF)]]

[[35th Battalion, Canadian Expeditionary Force (CEF)]]

[[36th Battalion, Canadian Expeditionary Force (CEF)]]

[[37th Battalion, Canadian Expeditionary Force (CEF)]]

[[39th Battalion, Canadian Expeditionary Force (CEF)]]

[[39th Battalion, Canadian Expeditionary Force (CEF)]]

[[41st Battalion, Canadian Expeditionary Force (CEF)]]

[[44th Battalion, Canadian Expeditionary Force (CEF)]]

[[48th Battalion, Canadian Expeditionary Force (CEF)]]

[[53rd Battalion, Canadian Expeditionary Force (CEF)]]

[[55th Battalion, Canadian Expeditionary Force (CEF)]]

[[56th Battalion, Canadian Expeditionary Force (CEF)]]

[[57th Battalion, Canadian Expeditionary Force (CEF)]]

[[59th Battalion, Canadian Expeditionary Force (CEF)]]

[[61st Battalion, Canadian Expeditionary Force (CEF)]]

[[62nd Battalion, Canadian Expeditionary Force (CEF)]]

[[63rd Battalion, Canadian Expeditionary Force (CEF)]]

[[64th Battalion, Canadian Expeditionary Force (CEF)]]

[[65th Battalion, Canadian Expeditionary Force (CEF)]]

[[66th Battalion, Canadian Expeditionary Force (CEF)]]

[[68th Battalion, Canadian Expeditionary Force (CEF)]]

[[69th Battalion, Canadian Expeditionary Force (CEF)]]

[[70th Battalion, Canadian Expeditionary Force (CEF)]]

[[71st Battalion, Canadian Expeditionary Force (CEF)]]

[[74th Battalion, Canadian Expeditionary Force (CEF)]]

[[75th Battalion, Canadian Expeditionary Force (CEF)]]

[[76th Battalion, Canadian Expeditionary Force (CEF)]]

[[77th Battalion, Canadian Expeditionary Force (CEF)]]

[[78th Battalion, Canadian Expeditionary Force (CEF)]]

[[79th Battalion, Canadian Expeditionary Force (CEF)]]

[[80th Battalion, Canadian Expeditionary Force (CEF)]]

[[81st Battalion, Canadian Expeditionary Force (CEF)]]

[[82nd Battalion, Canadian Expeditionary Force (CEF)]]

[[83rd Battalion, Canadian Expeditionary Force (CEF)]]

[[84th Battalion, Canadian Expeditionary Force (CEF)]]

[[86th Battalion, Canadian Expeditionary Force (CEF)]]

[[88th Battalion, Canadian Expeditionary Force (CEF)]]

[[89th Battalion, Canadian Expeditionary Force (CEF)]]

[[91st Battalion, Canadian Expeditionary Force (CEF)]]

[[92nd Battalion, Canadian Expeditionary Force (CEF)]]

[[93rd Battalion, Canadian Expeditionary Force (CEF)]]

[[94th Battalion, Canadian Expeditionary Force (CEF)]]

[[95th Battalion, Canadian Expeditionary Force (CEF)]]

[[96th Battalion, Canadian Expeditionary Force (CEF)]]

[[97th Battalion, Canadian Expeditionary Force (CEF)]]

[[98th Battalion, Canadian Expeditionary Force (CEF)]]

[[99th Battalion, Canadian Expeditionary Force (CEF)]]

[[100th Battalion, Canadian Expeditionary Force (CEF)]]

[[101st Battalion, Canadian Expeditionary Force (CEF)]]

[[103rd Battalion, Canadian Expeditionary Force (CEF)]]

[[105th Battalion, Canadian Expeditionary Force (CEF)]]

[[106th Battalion, Canadian Expeditionary Force (CEF)]]

[[107th Battalion, Canadian Expeditionary Force (CEF)]]

[[108th Battalion, Canadian Expeditionary Force (CEF)]]

[[109th Battalion, Canadian Expeditionary Force (CEF)]]

[[110th Battalion, Canadian Expeditionary Force (CEF)]]

[[111th Battalion, Canadian Expeditionary Force (CEF)]]

[[112th Battalion, Canadian Expeditionary Force (CEF)]]

[[113th Battalion, Canadian Expeditionary Force (CEF)]]

[[114th Battalion, Canadian Expeditionary Force (CEF)]]

[[115th Battalion, Canadian Expeditionary Force (CEF)]]

[[117th Battalion, Canadian Expeditionary Force (CEF)]]

[[118th Battalion, Canadian Expeditionary Force (CEF)]]

[[120th Battalion, Canadian Expeditionary Force (CEF)]]

[[121st Battalion, Canadian Expeditionary Force (CEF)]]

[[122nd Battalion, Canadian Expeditionary Force (CEF)]]

[[124th Battalion, Canadian Expeditionary Force (CEF)]]

[[126th Battalion, Canadian Expeditionary Force (CEF)]]

[[127th Battalion, Canadian Expeditionary Force (CEF)]]

[[129th Battalion, Canadian Expeditionary Force (CEF)]]

[[130th Battalion, Canadian Expeditionary Force (CEF)]]

[[131st Battalion, Canadian Expeditionary Force (CEF)]]

[[132nd Battalion, Canadian Expeditionary Force (CEF)]]

[[133rd Battalion, Canadian Expeditionary Force (CEF)]]

[[135th Battalion, Canadian Expeditionary Force (CEF)]]

[[136th Battalion, Canadian Expeditionary Force (CEF)]]

[[137th Battalion, Canadian Expeditionary Force (CEF)]]

[[138th Battalion, Canadian Expeditionary Force (CEF)]]

[[139th Battalion, Canadian Expeditionary Force (CEF)]]

[[140th Battalion, Canadian Expeditionary Force (CEF)]]

[[141st Battalion, Canadian Expeditionary Force (CEF)]]

[[142nd Battalion, Canadian Expeditionary Force (CEF)]]

[[143rd Battalion, Canadian Expeditionary Force (CEF)]]

[[144th Battalion, Canadian Expeditionary Force (CEF)]]

[[145th Battalion, Canadian Expeditionary Force (CEF)]]

[[146th Battalion, Canadian Expeditionary Force (CEF)]]

[[147th Battalion, Canadian Expeditionary Force (CEF)]]

[[148th Battalion, Canadian Expeditionary Force (CEF)]]

[[149th Battalion, Canadian Expeditionary Force (CEF)]]

[[151st Battalion, Canadian Expeditionary Force (CEF)]]

[[152nd Battalion, Canadian Expeditionary Force (CEF)]]

[[153rd Battalion, Canadian Expeditionary Force (CEF)]]

[[154th Battalion, Canadian Expeditionary Force (CEF)]]

[[155th Battalion, Canadian Expeditionary Force (CEF)]]

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[[193rd Battalion, Canadian Expeditionary Force (CEF)]]

[[194th Battalion, Canadian Expeditionary Force (CEF)]]

[[195th Battalion, Canadian Expeditionary Force (CEF)]]

[[196th Battalion, Canadian Expeditionary Force (CEF)]]

[[197th Battalion, Canadian Expeditionary Force (CEF)]]

[[200th Battalion, Canadian Expeditionary Force (CEF)]]

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[[203rd Battalion, Canadian Expeditionary Force (CEF)]]

[[204th Battalion, Canadian Expeditionary Force (CEF)]]

[[205th Battalion, Canadian Expeditionary Force (CEF)]]

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[[223rd Battalion, Canadian Expeditionary Force (CEF)]]

[[224th Battalion, Canadian Expeditionary Force (CEF)]]

[[225th Battalion, Canadian Expeditionary Force (CEF)]]

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[[240th Battalion, Canadian Expeditionary Force (CEF)]]

[[241st Battalion, Canadian Expeditionary Force (CEF)]]

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[[243rd Battalion, Canadian Expeditionary Force (CEF)]]

[[244th Battalion, Canadian Expeditionary Force (CEF)]]

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[[251st Battalion, Canadian Expeditionary Force (CEF)]]

[[252nd Battalion, Canadian Expeditionary Force (CEF)]]

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[[257th Battalion, Canadian Expeditionary Force (CEF)]]

[[258th Battalion, Canadian Expeditionary Force (CEF)]]

[[259th Battalion, Canadian Expeditionary Force (CEF)]]

[[260th Battalion, Canadian Expeditionary Force (CEF)]]

[[Royal Canadian Army Medical Corps]]

[[Canadian Army Nursing Corps]]

American units in World War I

2017-12-09T10:49:22Z

GavinRobinson: typo

The United States of America entered World War One in 1917 and sent a large number of units to fight in Europe.

The American services and branches were:

* US Army
** National Army
** National Guard
** Regular Army
* US Marine Corps
* US Navy

See also [[naming conventions for American units]].

[https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Infantry,_Part_I:_Regular_Army_/_The_First_World_War More information on organization of American infantry].

== US Army ==

The US Army used the continental system, in which the division was the main administrative and tactical unit.

=== Formations in Europe ===

[[American Expeditionary Forces]] (AEF) was the General Headquarters for American forces in Europe. It commanded the American armies and corps on the Western Front, and detachments that intervened in the Russian Civil War:

* [[American Expeditionary Forces, North Russia]]
* [[American Expeditionary Forces, Siberia]]

American units on the Western Front often fought under French, and sometimes under British, command.

For more details of General Headquarters, armies and corps, see {{Cite OB US|1}}.

==== AEF Armies ====

The [[Army|armies]] of the American Expeditionary Forces were:

* [[First Army, US]]
* [[Second Army, US]]
* [[Third Army, US]]

==== AEF Corps ====

The [[Corps (tactical)|corps]] of the American Expeditionary Forces were:

* [[I Corps, US]]
* [[II Corps, US]]
* [[III Corps, US]]
* [[IV Corps, US]]
* [[V Corps, US]]
* [[VI Corps, US]]
* [[VII Corps, US]]
* [[VIII Corps, US]]
* [[IX Corps, US]]

==== AEF Divisions ====

These divisions served on the Western Front with the American Expeditionary Forces.

See also {{Cite OB US|2}}.

===== Regular Army divisions =====

* [[1st Division, US]]
* [[2nd Division, US]]
* [[3rd Division, US]]
* [[4th Division, US]]
* [[5th Division, US]]
* [[6th Division, US]]
* [[7th Division, US]]
* [[8th Division, US]]

===== National Guard divisions =====

* [[26th Division, US]]
* [[27th Division, US]]
* [[28th Division, US]]
* [[29th Division, US]]
* [[30th Division, US]]
* [[31st Division, US]]
* [[32nd Division, US]]
* [[33rd Division, US]]
* [[34th Division, US]]
* [[35th Division, US]]
* [[36th Division, US]]
* [[37th Division, US]]
* [[38th Division, US]]
* [[39th Division, US]]
* [[40th Division, US]]
* [[41st Division, US]]
* [[42nd Division, US]]

===== National Army divisions =====

* [[76th Division, US]]
* [[77th Division, US]]
* [[78th Division, US]]
* [[79th Division, US]]
* [[80th Division, US]]
* [[81st Division, US]]
* [[82nd Division, US]]
* [[83rd Division, US]]
* [[84th Division, US]]
* [[85th Division, US]]
* [[86th Division, US]]
* [[87th Division, US]]
* [[88th Division, US]]
* [[89th Division, US]]
* [[90th Division, US]]
* [[91st Division, US]]
* [[92nd Division, US]]
* [[93rd Division, US]]

=== Formations at home ===

We don't yet have pages for any home units. For more information, see:

* {{Cite OB US|3.1}}
* {{Cite OB US|3.2}}
* {{Cite OB US|3.3}}

=== Infantry and machine gun units ===

The structure of infantry and machine gun units was:

* [[infantry division]]
** 1 [[motor machine gun battalion]] per division
** 2 [[infantry brigade (continental)|infantry brigades]] per division
*** 1 [[machine gun battalion]] per brigade
*** 2 [[infantry regiment (continental)|infantry regiments]] per brigade
**** 1 [[machine gun company]] per regiment
**** 3 [[infantry battalion]]s per regiment

We currently have pages for all infantry and machine gun units that were part of divisions in the American Expeditionary Forces on the Western Front. You can find them by drilling down through the division pages, or in these categories:

* [[:Category:US infantry brigades]]
* [[:Category:US infantry regiments]]
* [[:Category:US infantry battalions]]
* [[:Category:US machine gun battalions]]
* [[:Category:US machine gun companies]]

=== Artillery units ===

All American [[artillery]] units that have pages are listed in [[:Category:US artillery units]]. So far we only have pages for the ones that were part of divisions that served in Europe.

=== Medical units ===

All American [[medical]] units that have pages are listed in [[:Category:US medical units]]. So far we only have pages for the ones that were part of divisions that served in Europe.

=== Engineering and signals units ===

All American [[engineering]] and [[signals]] units that have pages are listed in [[:Category:US engineering units]] and [[:Category:US signals units]]. So far we only have pages for the ones that were part of divisions that served in Europe.

=== Supply and transport units ===

All American [[logistics]] units that have pages are listed in [[:Category:US logistics units]]. So far we only have pages for the ones that were part of divisions that served in Europe.

== US Marine Corps ==

These Marine Corps infantry units served on the Western Front as part of [[2nd Division, US|2nd Division]]:

* [[4th Infantry Brigade, US]]
** [[6th Machine Gun Battalion, US]]
** [[5th Infantry Regiment, US]]
*** [[Machine Gun Company, 5th Infantry Regiment, US]]
*** [[1st Battalion, 5th Infantry Regiment, US]]
*** [[2nd Battalion, 5th Infantry Regiment, US]]
*** [[3rd Battalion, 5th Infantry Regiment, US]]
** [[6th Infantry Regiment, US]]
*** [[Machine Gun Company, 6th Infantry Regiment, US]]
*** [[1st Battalion, 6th Infantry Regiment, US]]
*** [[2nd Battalion, 6th Infantry Regiment, US]]
*** [[3rd Battalion, 6th Infantry Regiment, US]]

We don't yet have any information about other Marine Corps units.

== US Navy ==

We don't yet have pages for any US Navy ships. There's a list at [[Wikipedia:Category:World War I naval ships of the United States]].

See also [[Wikipedia:United States Battleship Division Nine (World War I)]] for ships that operated in the North Sea with the British Grand Fleet.

== Voluntary organizations ==

* [[American Red Cross]]
* [[American YMCA]]

[[Category:United States]]

American units in World War I

2017-12-09T10:49:05Z

GavinRobinson: wikisource link

The United States of America entered World War One in 1917 and sent a large number of units to fight in Europe.

The American services and branches were:

* US Army
** National Army
** National Guard
** Regular Army
* US Marine Corps
* US Navy

See also [[naming conventions for American units]].

[https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Infantry,_Part_I:_Regular_Army_/_The_First_World_War More information on organization of American infantry].

== US Army ==

The US Army used the continental system, in which the division was the main administrative and tactical unit.

=== Formations in Europe ===

[[American Expeditionary Forces]] (AEF) was the General Headquarters for American forces in Europe. It commanded the American armies and corps on the Western Front, and detachments that intevened in the Russian Civil War:

* [[American Expeditionary Forces, North Russia]]
* [[American Expeditionary Forces, Siberia]]

American units on the Western Front often fought under French, and sometimes under British, command.

For more details of General Headquarters, armies and corps, see {{Cite OB US|1}}.

==== AEF Armies ====

The [[Army|armies]] of the American Expeditionary Forces were:

* [[First Army, US]]
* [[Second Army, US]]
* [[Third Army, US]]

==== AEF Corps ====

The [[Corps (tactical)|corps]] of the American Expeditionary Forces were:

* [[I Corps, US]]
* [[II Corps, US]]
* [[III Corps, US]]
* [[IV Corps, US]]
* [[V Corps, US]]
* [[VI Corps, US]]
* [[VII Corps, US]]
* [[VIII Corps, US]]
* [[IX Corps, US]]

==== AEF Divisions ====

These divisions served on the Western Front with the American Expeditionary Forces.

See also {{Cite OB US|2}}.

===== Regular Army divisions =====

* [[1st Division, US]]
* [[2nd Division, US]]
* [[3rd Division, US]]
* [[4th Division, US]]
* [[5th Division, US]]
* [[6th Division, US]]
* [[7th Division, US]]
* [[8th Division, US]]

===== National Guard divisions =====

* [[26th Division, US]]
* [[27th Division, US]]
* [[28th Division, US]]
* [[29th Division, US]]
* [[30th Division, US]]
* [[31st Division, US]]
* [[32nd Division, US]]
* [[33rd Division, US]]
* [[34th Division, US]]
* [[35th Division, US]]
* [[36th Division, US]]
* [[37th Division, US]]
* [[38th Division, US]]
* [[39th Division, US]]
* [[40th Division, US]]
* [[41st Division, US]]
* [[42nd Division, US]]

===== National Army divisions =====

* [[76th Division, US]]
* [[77th Division, US]]
* [[78th Division, US]]
* [[79th Division, US]]
* [[80th Division, US]]
* [[81st Division, US]]
* [[82nd Division, US]]
* [[83rd Division, US]]
* [[84th Division, US]]
* [[85th Division, US]]
* [[86th Division, US]]
* [[87th Division, US]]
* [[88th Division, US]]
* [[89th Division, US]]
* [[90th Division, US]]
* [[91st Division, US]]
* [[92nd Division, US]]
* [[93rd Division, US]]

=== Formations at home ===

We don't yet have pages for any home units. For more information, see:

* {{Cite OB US|3.1}}
* {{Cite OB US|3.2}}
* {{Cite OB US|3.3}}

=== Infantry and machine gun units ===

The structure of infantry and machine gun units was:

* [[infantry division]]
** 1 [[motor machine gun battalion]] per division
** 2 [[infantry brigade (continental)|infantry brigades]] per division
*** 1 [[machine gun battalion]] per brigade
*** 2 [[infantry regiment (continental)|infantry regiments]] per brigade
**** 1 [[machine gun company]] per regiment
**** 3 [[infantry battalion]]s per regiment

We currently have pages for all infantry and machine gun units that were part of divisions in the American Expeditionary Forces on the Western Front. You can find them by drilling down through the division pages, or in these categories:

* [[:Category:US infantry brigades]]
* [[:Category:US infantry regiments]]
* [[:Category:US infantry battalions]]
* [[:Category:US machine gun battalions]]
* [[:Category:US machine gun companies]]

=== Artillery units ===

All American [[artillery]] units that have pages are listed in [[:Category:US artillery units]]. So far we only have pages for the ones that were part of divisions that served in Europe.

=== Medical units ===

All American [[medical]] units that have pages are listed in [[:Category:US medical units]]. So far we only have pages for the ones that were part of divisions that served in Europe.

=== Engineering and signals units ===

All American [[engineering]] and [[signals]] units that have pages are listed in [[:Category:US engineering units]] and [[:Category:US signals units]]. So far we only have pages for the ones that were part of divisions that served in Europe.

=== Supply and transport units ===

All American [[logistics]] units that have pages are listed in [[:Category:US logistics units]]. So far we only have pages for the ones that were part of divisions that served in Europe.

== US Marine Corps ==

These Marine Corps infantry units served on the Western Front as part of [[2nd Division, US|2nd Division]]:

* [[4th Infantry Brigade, US]]
** [[6th Machine Gun Battalion, US]]
** [[5th Infantry Regiment, US]]
*** [[Machine Gun Company, 5th Infantry Regiment, US]]
*** [[1st Battalion, 5th Infantry Regiment, US]]
*** [[2nd Battalion, 5th Infantry Regiment, US]]
*** [[3rd Battalion, 5th Infantry Regiment, US]]
** [[6th Infantry Regiment, US]]
*** [[Machine Gun Company, 6th Infantry Regiment, US]]
*** [[1st Battalion, 6th Infantry Regiment, US]]
*** [[2nd Battalion, 6th Infantry Regiment, US]]
*** [[3rd Battalion, 6th Infantry Regiment, US]]

We don't yet have any information about other Marine Corps units.

== US Navy ==

We don't yet have pages for any US Navy ships. There's a list at [[Wikipedia:Category:World War I naval ships of the United States]].

See also [[Wikipedia:United States Battleship Division Nine (World War I)]] for ships that operated in the North Sea with the British Grand Fleet.

== Voluntary organizations ==

* [[American Red Cross]]
* [[American YMCA]]

[[Category:United States]]

Official unit diaries and histories

2017-12-09T10:46:57Z

GavinRobinson: /* British official history */ found another volume on IA

This page includes official war diaries and other operational records, official histories of campaigns, published orders of battle, other official lists of units and their names, orders for creating/disbanding/renaming units, semi-official unit histories, and useful secondary works. Lots of these could be added to relevant unit pages on this wiki.

McMaster University has a large online collection of [http://library.mcmaster.ca/maps/ww1/home trench maps and aerial photos].

Other web pages that include links to relevant resources:

* [http://wwi.lib.byu.edu/index.php/Links_to_Other_WWI_Sites World War I Document Archive: Links to Other WWI Sites]
* [http://www.birmingham.ac.uk/research/activity/warstudies/links/ww1-links.aspx University of Birmingham War Studies: First World War links]

== General information about official histories ==

Robert T. Foley has written a series of posts at the Defence in Depth blog describing and linking to official histories of all nations, and other relevant sources:

* [http://defenceindepth.co/2015/01/19/digital-first-world-war-resources-online-archival-sources/ Online Archival Sources]
* [http://defenceindepth.co/2015/03/30/digital-first-world-war-resources-online-official-histories-the-war-on-land/ Official Histories of the war on land]
* [http://defenceindepth.co/2015/08/19/digital-first-world-war-resources-online-official-histories-the-war-at-sea-and-in-the-air/ Official Histories of the war at sea and in the air]

== General information about war diaries ==

A war diary is a day to day record of the movements and activities of a tactical unit or formation. They were usually written shortly after the events described, often by the unit's adjutant. The level of detail varies but at the very least they should give the location of a unit on every day that it was in a theatre of war. War diaries were typically only created when units served in theatres of war but a few were created during home service. Most have survived but some that were created might be missing.

These categories list units by whether they have references to war diaries listed on their pages on this site:

* [[:Category:Units needing official war diaries]] need checking to see if war diaries exist, and if so, where they are.
* [[:Category:Units with official war diaries]] have references to at least some of their war diaries. They might be paid-for downloads or might not have been digitized. This category just confirms that diaries exist and that the page gives the archival reference.
* [[:Category:Units with transcribed war diaries]] link to online transcripts of at least some part of the diary.
* [[:Category:Units with free war diary images]] link to images of war diary pages that can be viewed online free of charge. They cannot necessarily be reused.

If you know where a war diary is or know that a unit doesn't have any, please update the unit's page. [[:Category:War diary templates]] lists templates you can use to link to existing diaries or show that no diaries exist and why.

== British Empire ==

This section covers the British Army and all other British Empire forces but see sub-headings below for more information about certain countries.

{{Cite book| first = William | last = Spencer | title = First World War Army Service Records: a guide for family historians | publisher = The National Archives of the UK | location = Kew, British Army | isbn = 978-1-905615-26-1 | date = 2008}} This is a detailed guide to official documents of the British Army, not just personnel files. It gives more background and references to many of the sources described on this page. Although it mainly covers the British Army, some of the material is relevant to the rest of the British Empire.

The British ''Manual of Military Law'' (1914) gives important information about the contemporary legal definitions of the British Army and other forces of the Empire. See [[Constitution of the Military Forces of the British Crown]].

=== British Empire war diaries and operational records ===

{{Cite TNA|http://discovery.nationalarchives.gov.uk/browse/r/h/C14303|WO 95}} includes war diaries for most units of British Empire land forces that served in theatres of war. The main exception is the South African invasion of German South-West Africa. Diaries are arranged by theatre of war, then by formation. A unit that served in more than one theatre might have diaries filed under separate theatres but diaries are not always split between every theatre that a unit served in. You can use the template {{tl|War diary TNA}} to link to any of these diaries.

The diaries are being digitized by TNA. Currently about half of the diaries for the Western Front have been done and can be downloaded via the Discovery catalogue, the rest of the Western Front diaries are in progress, and the other theatres have not been started yet. The digitized diaries are also being indexed by [http://www.operationwardiary.org/ Operation War Diary], a crowdsourced project run by Zooniverse. The resulting data has not yet been made available to the public, but will be eventually. Digitized images of some diaries can also be bought from Ancestry.com and Naval & Military Press.

{{Cite TNA|http://discovery.nationalarchives.gov.uk/browse/r/h/C14360|WO 153}} contains maps, many of which were extracted from WO 95.

{{Cite TNA|http://discovery.nationalarchives.gov.uk/browse/r/h/C14361|WO 154}} contains extracts from war diaries that were removed from WO 95 because they contain sensitive information which had to stay closed for longer.

Australian War Memorial, [https://www.awm.gov.au/collection/awm4/ class AWM4] contains diaries for all of the Australian Imperial Force and also a few British, Indian and New Zealand units. These can be viewed online free of charge and can contain appendices that were removed from the WO 95 version and destroyed before they were released to the public. These diaries are always kept together under the relevant unit and don't have separate sub-series for theatres of war. You can use the template {{tl|War diary AWM}} to link to any war diaries in AWM4.

The headquarters of higher formations (typically corps and above, but sometimes divisions) also kept intelligence summaries. The Australian War Memorial's copies are kept alongside the war diaries in AWM4. These cover Australian formations, and the British formations that contained them. British copies are kept separately in {{Cite TNA|http://discovery.nationalarchives.gov.uk/browse/r/h/C18899|WO 157}}. Like WO 95, these are sorted by theatre then formation. They cover more formations than the ones in AWM4.

{{Cite TNA|http://discovery.nationalarchives.gov.uk/browse/r/h/C14365|WO 158}} contains correspondence about military operations from the headquarters of formations.

{{Cite TNA|http://discovery.nationalarchives.gov.uk/browse/r/h/C14241|WO 32}}, War Office registered files, includes commanders' reports on operations.

{{Cite TNA|http://discovery.nationalarchives.gov.uk/browse/r/h/C14314|WO 106}} contains correspondence and papers of the War Office Directorate of Military Operations, including lots of records of operations in Africa.

=== British Empire Army Lists and orders of battle ===

The published Army Lists give lists of British and Empire units and officers:

* official Monthly Army List gives British units and overseas contingents, which include the wartime expeditionary forces of the dominions. Out of copyright but not available online. A full set of the First World War volumes is on open shelves at The National Archives of the UK. There should be another set in the British Library. Naval & Military Press has published reprints of the volumes for [http://www.naval-military-press.com/monthly-army-list-for-august-1914.html August 1914] and [http://www.naval-military-press.com/monthly-army-list.-july-1916.html July 1916]. You can use {{tl|Cite Army List M}} to cite any issue.
* official Quarterly Army List only lists British officers without a convenient list of British units, but it does list units of colonial forces. These tend to be forces raised before the war for home defence by governments of certain colonies, and most didn't serve in theatres during the war, but they are still within the scope of this project. You can use {{tl|Cite Army List Q}} to cite any issue. Scans of several volumes are available at the Internet Archive, for example:
** [https://archive.org/details/armylistjul1914grea July 1914]
** [https://archive.org/details/armylistoctpart11918grea October 1918 part 1]
** [https://archive.org/details/armylistoctpart121918grea October 1918 part 2]
* Hart's Annual Army List was a semi-official publication covering the British and Indian armies, giving similar information to the Monthly Army List. It stopped updating after the outbreak of war but is a useful source for pre-war units. You can use the template {{tl|Cite Hart}} to cite any issue from 1909 to 1915. Several volumes are available at the Internet Archive, for example:
** [https://archive.org/details/hartsannualarmy1913lond 1913]
** [https://archive.org/details/hartsannualarmy1914lond 1914]
** [https://archive.org/details/hartsannualarmy1915lond 1915]

{{Cite TNA|http://discovery.nationalarchives.gov.uk/browse/r/h/C78437|WO 95/5467-87}} contains original orders of battle. These give snapshots of the hierarchy of British Empire units and formations in each theatre at regular intervals.

{{Cite TNA|http://discovery.nationalarchives.gov.uk/browse/r/h/C77336|WO 24/894-1181}} official war establishments, which give the theoretical size and composition of a typical unit or formation at full strength.

=== United Kingdom ===

==== British official history ====

The British Official History covers all operations under British command. It was published in many volumes, arranged by theatre and year. A DVD-ROM version of all the Western Front (ie France and Belgium) volumes and maps can be bought from [http://www.naval-military-press.com/official-history-of-the-great-war.-france-belgium.-dvd-rom.html Naval and Military Press].

Available free at Internet Archive:

* [https://archive.org/details/militaryoperatio01edmouoft France and Belgium 1914]
* [https://archive.org/details/campaigninmesopo02mobe Mesopotamia 1914-1918]

The official historians papers contain drafts of the official history and some of the sources used, including letters and diaries:

* {{Cite TNA|http://discovery.nationalarchives.gov.uk/details/r/C3851|CAB 44}} drafts of chapters.
* {{Cite TNA|http://discovery.nationalarchives.gov.uk/details/r/C3852|CAB 45}} correspondence and papers, including letters, personal diaries, maps and photos.

Australia, Canada and New Zealand published their own official histories separately. See headings below.

==== British war diaries ====

{{Cite TNA|http://discovery.nationalarchives.gov.uk/browse/r/h/C14303|WO 95}} is the main source for British war diaries. Duplicates are often kept at regimental museums, and some of these have been published in print or online.

Other sources of online war diaries:

* {{Cite TLLT|http://www.1914-1918.net/Diaries/diaries.htm|Extracts from unit war diaries of 1914-1918}}
* Your Archives categories:
** [http://webarchive.nationalarchives.gov.uk/+/http://yourarchives.nationalarchives.gov.uk/index.php?title=Category:WW1_War_Diary_Transcripts_%28External_Links%29 WW1 War Diary Transcripts (External Links)]
** [http://webarchive.nationalarchives.gov.uk/+/http://yourarchives.nationalarchives.gov.uk/index.php?title=Category:WW1_War_Diary_transcripts WW1 War Diary transcripts]
** [http://webarchive.nationalarchives.gov.uk/+/http://yourarchives.nationalarchives.gov.uk/index.php?title=Category:WW1_War_Diaries WW1 War Diaries]

Many of these links have already been added to the relevant unit pages at this site but there are probably more to do.

==== British orders of battle ====

WO 95 includes the following lists of British Army units as well as the war diaries and orders of battle listed above:

* {{Cite TNA|http://discovery.nationalarchives.gov.uk/details/r/C4558646|WO 95/5494}}, list of artillery, Army Service Corps, Machine Gun Corps and medical units, giving the divisions they served with.
* {{Cite TNA|http://discovery.nationalarchives.gov.uk/details/r/C6079718|WO 95/5495}}, deployment of Labour Corps units
* {{Cite TNA|http://discovery.nationalarchives.gov.uk/details/r/C6079719|WO 95/5496}}, deployment of Military Police traffic control units.
* {{Cite TNA|http://discovery.nationalarchives.gov.uk/details/r/C6079720|WO 95/5497}} deployment of Ordnance Corps units.
* {{Cite TNA|http://discovery.nationalarchives.gov.uk/details/r/C6079721|WO 95/5498}}, deployment of Veterinary Corps units.
* {{Cite TNA|http://discovery.nationalarchives.gov.uk/details/r/C6079722|WO 95/5499}}, deployment of engineer and pioneer units.

A.F. Becke ''Order of Battle of Divisions'' was published as appendices to the British Official History. It was derived from the original orders of battle in WO 95 (see above), giving a full order of battle for each division in each year, along with notes about changes in between these snapshots. It was published in several volumes which are now out of copyright but not currently available online:

* {{Cite Becke|1}}
* {{Cite Becke|2A}}
* {{Cite Becke|2B}}
* {{Cite Becke|3A}}
* {{Cite Becke|3B}}
* {{Cite Becke|4}}

There is also a volume 5B covering Indian divisions. It's not clear whether a volume 5A exists.

You can use the template {{tl|Cite Becke}} to cite any volume of these orders of battle except 5B.

{{Cite James}} This is a semi-official secondary work giving a brief history of every infantry and cavalry regiment of the British Army in the First World War. Infantry regiments have a brief history of each battalion, including locations at the start and end of the war (or dates created and disbanded if during the war), parent brigades, and dates of entry to theatres (or locations in the UK if they didn't serve overseas). Gives full names of regiments and seems to be a reliable source for the name histories of their Regular and Special Reserve battalions, but doesn't give full name histories for Territorial or New Army units. There can be errors in James's information. For example, see [[4th Battalion, Lincolnshire Regiment, British Army|4th Battalion Lincolnshire Regiment]]. You can use the template {{tl|Cite James}} to cite this source.

Chris Baker's website, [http://www.longlongtrail.co.uk/ The Long Long Trail] synthesizes Becke, James and Chris Baker's own research. It has pages down to division and regiment level, and infantry regiment pages have a section for each battalion. Mentions having corrected some errors in James's information but is occasionally more vague than James. You can use the template {{tl|Cite TLLT}} to cite pages at The Long Long Trail.

There is no known source that gives complete division-corps-army relationships. Becke only gives these during major battles and doesn't give all of the dates when the relationships changed.

Other lists of British units:

* Embarkation and disembarkation returns. These give dates when units sailed and their total strengths but don't list the names of soldiers.
** {{Cite TNA|http://discovery.nationalarchives.gov.uk/browse/r/h/C77309|WO 25}}, embarkation returns.
** {{Cite TNA|http://discovery.nationalarchives.gov.uk/browse/r/h/C77310|WO 25}}, disembarkation returns.
* {{Cite TNA|http://discovery.nationalarchives.gov.uk/details/r/C14281|WO 73}}, monthly returns of the distribution of the army, giving locations of units.
* {{Cite TNA|http://discovery.nationalarchives.gov.uk/details/r/C14322|WO 114}}, strength returns, giving the actual strengths of army units at regular intervals

==== British Army Lists ====

British units are listed in the official Monthly Army List and Hart's Annual Army List. The official Quarterly Army List is not much use for lists of British units.

Sample pages from Hart's Annual, 1914:

* [https://archive.org/stream/hartsannualarmy1914lond#page/82/mode/2up Home commands and districts] (also includes divisions and brigades on home service)
* [https://archive.org/stream/hartsannualarmy1914lond#page/128/mode/2up 1st Life Guards] (regular cavalry regiments follow in order of precedence)
* [https://archive.org/stream/hartsannualarmy1914lond#page/162/mode/2up Yeomanry regiments]
* [https://archive.org/stream/hartsannualarmy1914lond#page/227/mode/2up Territorial Royal Artillery]
* [https://archive.org/stream/hartsannualarmy1914lond#page/284/mode/2up Grenadier Guards] (foot guards regiments follow in order of precedence)
* [https://archive.org/stream/hartsannualarmy1914lond#page/290/mode/2up Royal Scots] (line infantry regiments follow in order of precedence)
* [https://archive.org/stream/hartsannualarmy1914lond#page/582/mode/2up Territorial RAMC Field Ambulances]
* [https://archive.org/stream/hartsannualarmy1914lond#page/590/mode/2up Territorial RAMC General Hospitals]

You can use the template {{tl|Cite Hart}} to cite pages in Hart's Annual Army List. This template automatically creates links to the page scans at the Internet Archive.

==== British orders and instructions ====

Orders and instructions for creating, disbanding and renaming units (among many other things):

* Army Orders. Published monthly. Includes royal warrants for creating new regiments, and other orders for raising or recognising new units. Crown Copyright now expired but these are not available online. There is a set in the British Library and another in {{Cite TNA|http://discovery.nationalarchives.gov.uk/browse/r/h/C54472|WO 123/30-492}}. Volumes covering the First World War start at [http://discovery.nationalarchives.gov.uk/browse/r/h/C2595674 WO 123/56] (1914).
* War Office Instructions (to December 1915) and Army Council Instructions (from January 1916). Includes detailed instructions for raising and renaming units. Not available online and don't seem to be in British Library. The only known set available to the public is in {{Cite TNA|http://discovery.nationalarchives.gov.uk/browse/r/h/C14497|WO 293}}
* [https://www.thegazette.co.uk/ London Gazette] includes notices of some of the above warrants and orders, but not the full text.
* General Routine Orders issued by headquarters in theatres of war might mention renaming or reorganising units. {{Cite TNA|http://discovery.nationalarchives.gov.uk/browse/r/h/C54480|WO 123/199-295}}.

==== British semi-official unit histories ====

Many unit histories were published between the wars, often by officers who had served in the unit. We are adding these to the relevant unit pages as we find them. If you know any more, please add them to the relevant unit page if you can, or otherwise list them here.

=== Australia ===

==== Australian war diaries ====

All surviving war diaries and intelligence summaries for the Australian Imperial Force are held by the Australian War Memorial in [https://www.awm.gov.au/collection/awm4/ class AWM4]. These have been digitized, and images can be viewed online free of charge. They can include appendices which have been removed from the versions held at the UK National Archives. You can use the template {{tl|War diary AWM}} to link to these diaries.

We don't yet know whether the [[Australian Naval and Military Expeditionary Force]] has any surviving war diaries or if so, where they are.

==== Australian official histories ====

All volumes of the [https://www.awm.gov.au/collection/AWMOHWW1/ Australian Official History] are online at the Australian War Memorial. You can use the template {{tl|Cite OH Australian}} to cite pages in any volume.

* {{Cite OH Australian|1}}
* {{Cite OH Australian|2}}
* {{Cite OH Australian|3}}
* {{Cite OH Australian|4}}
* {{Cite OH Australian|5}}
* {{Cite OH Australian|6}}
* {{Cite OH Australian|7}}
* {{Cite OH Australian|8}}
* {{Cite OH Australian|9}}
* {{Cite OH Australian|10}}
* {{Cite OH Australian|11}}

==== Australian unit lists ====

The British official Monthly Army List includes the Australian Imperial Force. The British official Quarterly Army List includes the Permanent Force and Citizen Military Force. Examples from July 1914:

* [https://archive.org/stream/armylistjul1914grea#page/1196/mode/2up Permanent Force artillery]
* Citizen Military Force:
** [https://archive.org/stream/armylistjul1914grea#page/1196/mode/2up Light horse]
** [https://archive.org/stream/armylistjul1914grea#page/1204/mode/2up Artillery]
** [https://archive.org/stream/armylistjul1914grea#page/1207/mode/2up Engineers]
** [https://archive.org/stream/armylistjul1914grea#page/1209/mode/2up Infantry]
** [https://archive.org/stream/armylistjul1914grea#page/1224/mode/2up Australian Army Service Corps]
** [https://archive.org/stream/armylistjul1914grea#page/1225/mode/2up Australian Army Medical Corps]

Embarkation rolls listing the names and embarkation dates of units and the names of soldiers who embarked are held by the Australian War Memorial in class [https://www.awm.gov.au/collection/AWM8/ AWM8].

The Australian War Memorial has unit pages for AIF infantry battalions and light horse regiments. Links to most of these have already been added to the relevant unit pages here.

=== Canada ===

The [http://cefresearch.ca/wiki/index.php/Main_Page Canadian Expeditionary Force Study Group wiki] has unit pages that link to diaries at LAC and other relevant sources.

==== Canadian war diaries ====

All surviving war diaries for units of the Canadian Expeditionary Force are held by [http://www.collectionscanada.gc.ca/archivianet/020152_e.html Library and Archives Canada]. These have been digitized, and page images can be viewed online free of charge. They can include appendices which have been removed from the versions held at the UK National Archives.

There's a transcription project in progress at the [http://www.canadiangreatwarproject.com/WarDiaries/diaryMain.asp Canadian Great War Project], which also gives more information about [http://www.canadiangreatwarproject.com/warDiaryLac/wdLacMain.asp how to find war diaries].

==== Canadian official histories ====

Several official histories are available as PDFs via the [http://www.cmp-cpm.forces.gc.ca/dhh-dhp/his/oh-ho/index-eng.asp National Defence and the Canadian Armed Forces Official Histories] page, including:

* [http://www.cmp-cpm.forces.gc.ca/dhh-dhp/his/oh-ho/detail-eng.asp?BfBookLang=1&BfId=22 Official History of the Canadian Army in the First World War: Candian Expeditionary Force, 1914-1919]
* [http://www.cmp-cpm.forces.gc.ca/dhh-dhp/his/oh-ho/detail-eng.asp?BfBookLang=1&BfId=41 Official History of The Canadian Forces in the Great War, 1914-1919, Vol I Part 1]
* [http://www.cmp-cpm.forces.gc.ca/dhh-dhp/his/oh-ho/detail-eng.asp?BfBookLang=1&BfId=43 Official History of the Canadian Forces in the Great War, 1914-1919, Vol I Part 2]
* [http://www.cmp-cpm.forces.gc.ca/dhh-dhp/his/oh-ho/detail-eng.asp?BfBookLang=1&BfId=48 The C.A.M.C. with the Canadian Corps during the Last Hundred Days of the Great War.]
* [http://www.cmp-cpm.forces.gc.ca/dhh-dhp/his/oh-ho/detail-eng.asp?BfBookLang=1&BfId=49 Official History of the Canadian Forces in the Great War: The Medical Services]
* [http://www.cmp-cpm.forces.gc.ca/dhh-dhp/his/oh-ho/detail-eng.asp?BfBookLang=1&BfId=65 Report of the Ministry Overseas Military Forces of Canada, 1918]
* [http://www.cmp-cpm.forces.gc.ca/dhh-dhp/his/oh-ho/detail-eng.asp?BfBookLang=1&BfId=46 The Naval Service of Canada : Its Official History. Vol 1, Origins and Early Years.]

(These still need citation templates.)

==== Canadian units and soldiers ====

Various [http://www.canadiana.ca/en/cef-register nominal rolls for the Canadian Expeditionary Force] are also available online, 'listing the names, ranks, countries of birth, and dates and places of enlistment for each member of the unit, often with next of kin and address'.

The British official Monthly Army List includes the Canadian Expeditionary Force. The British official Quarterly Army List lists units of the Permanent Force and Non-Permanent Active Militia. Examples from July 1914:

* [https://archive.org/stream/armylistjul1914grea#page/1287/mode/2up Permanent Force]
* [https://archive.org/stream/armylistjul1914grea#page/1291/mode/2up Militia cavalry]
* [https://archive.org/stream/armylistjul1914grea#page/1310/mode/2up Militia infantry]

[http://www.cmp-cpm.forces.gc.ca/dhh-dhp/his/ol-lo/index-eng.asp Official Lineages of Canadian regiments] gives name histories of regiments whose identities have been perpetuated by the Canadia Army.

=== India ===

{{Cite TNA|http://discovery.nationalarchives.gov.uk/browse/r/h/C14303|WO 95}} is the main source for war diaries of units of the Indian Army and Imperial Service Troops that served in theatres of war. Diaries for a few Indian units are also available free from the Australian War Memorial in [https://www.awm.gov.au/collection/awm4/ class AWM4].

A.F. Becke, ''Order of Battle of Divisions'', volume 5B covers Indian divisions but is very hard to get hold of.

The official Indian Army List is the best source for names and creation dates of units. Many volumes are available online at the Digital Library of India. The easiest way to find them is the [http://wiki.fibis.org/index.php/Indian_Army_List_online list of links at FIBIwiki]. Naval & Military Press have reprinted the [http://www.naval-military-press.com/indian-army-list-1919.html volume for 1919]. There are also printed copies at the British Library and The UK National Archives.

Hart's Annual Army List covers the pre-war Indian Army. For example, from the 1914 edition:

* [https://archive.org/stream/hartsannualarmy1914lond#page/108/mode/2up Indian armies and divisions]
* [https://archive.org/stream/hartsannualarmy1914lond#page/683/mode/2up Indian cavalry, page 683 onwards]
* [https://archive.org/stream/hartsannualarmy1914lond#page/697/mode/2up Indian artillery, page 697 onwards]
* [https://archive.org/stream/hartsannualarmy1914lond#page/701/mode/2up Indian infantry, page 701 onwards]
* [https://archive.org/stream/hartsannualarmy1914lond#page/755/mode/2up Indian Medical Service, page 755 onwards]

You can use the template {{tl|Cite Hart}} to cite this source.

The British official Quarterly Army List includes the Indian Volunteer Corps. For example, [https://archive.org/stream/armylistjul1914grea#page/1474/mode/2up July 1914]. Units transferred to the Indian Defence Force in 1917 are shown in the Indian Army List (see links above).

[http://wiki.fibis.org/index.php/Regiment FIBIwiki] includes pages for Indian regiments.

[http://defenceindepth.co/2015/06/29/india-and-the-first-world-war/ India and the First World War] post by Vipul Dutta at Defence in Depth blog mentions lots of recent research.

=== New Zealand ===

{{Cite TNA|http://discovery.nationalarchives.gov.uk/browse/r/h/C14303|WO 95}} probably contains a full set of diaries for the New Zealand Expeditionary Force, but with some appendices removed. These are either paid downloads or have not yet been digitized.

Australian War Memorial, [https://www.awm.gov.au/collection/awm4/ class AWM4] contains diaries for some, but not all, New Zealand Expeditionary Force units. These have been digitized, are free to view, and should have appendices that have been removed from the versions held in the UK.

Are there copies in New Zealand, and if so where are they held? Are they available online? If anyone knows, please edit this page or get in touch.

[http://nzetc.victoria.ac.nz/tm/scholarly/tei-corpus-WH1.html 'campaign histories and the regimental histories covering New Zealand's involvement in the First World War' from the New Zealand Electronic Text Collection]. A useful index for this content is provided on the [https://armouryinfocentre.wordpress.com/home/army-new-zealand-expeditionary-force/ww1-nz-unit-histories/ WW1 NZEF Unit Histories] page.

[http://www.nzmr.org/war_diaries.html Transcribed Regimental Diaries and links to images of originals in the Australian War Memorial]

New Zealand's Te Papa has lots of online material from the First World War. Their [http://collections.tepapa.govt.nz/object/337 Collection of World War One Ephemera] includes 'Gallipoli campaign photographs, propaganda and recruitment information, French & Spanish postcards, Gallipoli diary, Troopship magazines & battle plans etc'.

The British official Monthly Army List includes the New Zealand Expeditionary Force. The British official Quarterly Army List includes the Permanent Force and Territorial Force, for example [https://archive.org/stream/armylistjul1914grea#page/1404/mode/2up July 1914].

=== South Africa ===

{{Cite TNA|http://discovery.nationalarchives.gov.uk/browse/r/h/C14303|WO 95}} includes war diaries for units of the South African Overseas Expeditionary Force in theatres other than German South-West Africa, probably with some appendices missing. Are there other copies in South Africa?

We don't yet know whether war diaries for the invasion of German South-West Africa survive, and if so, where they are held. If anyone knows, please edit this page or get in touch.

The British official Monthly Army List includes the South African Overseas Expeditionary Force. The British official Quarterly Army List includes the Union Defence Force, for example [https://archive.org/stream/armylistjul1914grea#page/1445/mode/2up July 1914].

== France ==

War diaries for French units seem to be all [http://www.memoiredeshommes.sga.defense.gouv.fr/en/arkotheque/inventaires/ead_ir_consult.php?fam=3&ref=FR_SGA_JMO_1ere_GM_00001 available online], free to view, but there are no permalinks to individual units.

== Portugal ==

* [http://www.momentosdehistoria.com/index.htm Momentos de Historia] includes order of battle for the Portuguese army and navy in every theatre that they served in.
* Jesse Pyles, '[http://digital.library.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc115143/m2/1/high_res_d/thesis.pdf The Portuguese Expeditionary Corps in World War I: from Inception to Combat Destruction, 1914-1918]' (MA thesis, University of North Texas, 2012). Gives a narrative and analysis of Portuguese operations on the Western Front and cites primary sources from British and Portuguese archives, including many personal narratives.
* {{Cite TNA|http://discovery.nationalarchives.gov.uk/details/r/C4558640|WO 95/5488}}, war diary of British military mission with the Portuguese Expeditionary Force (December 1916 to April 1918)
* {{Cite TNA|http://discovery.nationalarchives.gov.uk/details/r/C4558641|WO 95/5489}}, war diary of British military mission with the Portuguese Expeditionary Force (May 1918 to April 1919).
* {{Cite TNA|http://discovery.nationalarchives.gov.uk/details/r/C4415229|WO 106/546}}, correspondence and papers of British military mission with the Portuguese Expeditionary Force (August 1916 to January 1918).
* {{Cite TNA|http://discovery.nationalarchives.gov.uk/details/r/C162199|WO 158/709 }}, Convention and arrangements for the employment of Portuguese Forces in France (21/11/1916 to 14/8/1917).
* {{Cite TNA|http://discovery.nationalarchives.gov.uk/details/r/C161562|WO 158/75}}, British Expeditionary Force, General Headquarters correspondence: Battle of Lys: Attack on Portuguese Front, April 1918

== United States of America ==

=== US operational records ===

Operational records of the American Expeditionary Forces in World War I are held by the US National Archives in [http://www.archives.gov/research/guide-fed-records/groups/120.html Record Group 120]. These seem to go down to regiment level but not battalion level, because the US Army used the continental system. They don't seem to have been digitized.

=== US orders of battle ===

Official published orders of battle of the US Army in World War I are free to download as PDFs:

* {{Cite OB US|1}}
* {{Cite OB US|2}}
* {{Cite OB US|3.1}}
* {{Cite OB US|3.2}}
* {{Cite OB US|3.3}}

You can use the template {{tl|Cite OB US}} to cite these volumes.

[[Category:Sources]]

Lists of personal diaries, letters, memoirs

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GavinRobinson: /* Individual items */ added red link

The letters, diaries, memoirs etc listed below could be linked to specific military units, but each name needs to be researched to find out exactly which unit they were in at the time. '''Can you help? Pick a name or document below, and try to find their military records to show which battalion they were in.'''

Here are some resources on [[researching World War One records]] to get you started.

== Individual items ==
These names need to be matched to individual units so they can be added to its page. '''If you can find out which units these people were in, and [https://mia2.typeform.com/to/dkhC4B send in your links] to have them added to the wiki.''' If you're working on someone's record, you can also edit the wiki to add a note saying so. Remove the name below once it's been added to a regiment or battalion page.

* [http://blogs.bl.uk/untoldlives/2017/11/testimony-from-the-trenches-personal-journeys-of-ww1.html blog post about Alfred Forbes Johnson]. His papers and photos are now British Library Add MS 89235. He served in the Artists Rifles (which battalion?) and Royal Garrison Artillery (which unit?).

* [http://ufdc.ufl.edu/wwi Diary of Albert Huet] in the French infantry. [http://www.crid1418.org/temoins/2016/03/12/huet-albert-1897-1977/ This biography] gives the regiments he served in.

* Petty Officer Hans Heinz Harmes-Emden [http://www.awm.gov.au/people/P3818/#collection-items Australian War Memorial - Anzac Connections - collection items]
** German navy: SMS Emden (1908)

* Bodleian Library, Oxford, [http://www.bodley.ox.ac.uk/dept/scwmss/wmss/online/blcas/kings-african-rifles.html MSS. Afr. s. 1715] (168A) (Box 10): papers of Brigadier M.S. Lush, who served in the Sudan Political Service, 1914-1945.

* Bodleian Library, Oxford, [http://www.bodley.ox.ac.uk/dept/scwmss/wmss/online/blcas/kings-african-rifles.html MSS. Afr. s. 1715] (103) (Box 5): papers of Sir Angus Gillan, who served in the Sudan Political Service and took part in the Darfur campaign in 1916.

* [https://archive.org/details/gogetem00will Go, get 'em! The true adventures of an American aviator of the Lafayette flying corps who was the only Yankee flyer fighting over General Pershing's boys of the Rainbow division in Lorraine, when they first went "over the top" by William A. Wellman] Joined a volunteer ambulance unit, then the French Foreign Legion and served as a pilot in the Lafayette Flying Corps. See [[Wikipedia:William_A._Wellman#World_War_I]] for more details.

* [https://archive.org/details/whenchenalsingsm00wyth When Chenal sings the Marseillaise : With the honors of war : Sister Julie by Wythe Williams] (American journalist in France. Not clear from internal evidence which units it covers.)

* [http://lettersfromww1.blogspot.com Letters home from Private Edward Ray Jackson] (Canadian). [http://lettersfromww1.blogspot.co.uk/p/time-line-for-edward-ray-jackson.html Timeline] shows that he served with:
** [[160th Battalion, Canadian Expeditionary Force (CEF)]]
** [[1st Battalion, Canadian Expeditionary Force (CEF)]]
** wounded, treated at:
*** 7 Casualty Clearing Station
*** 32 Casualty Clearing Station
*** East Suffolk Hospital, Ipswich
*** Woodcote Convalescent Hospital, Epsom]
*** hospital ship SS Esquibo

* [http://haroldskillingslettersfromww1.blogspot.com Harold Skilling's Letters From World War One]
** Canadian Expeditionary Force
** Royal Flying Corps

* [http://morelettersfromww1.blogspot.com Lieutenant William Milton Skilling]. [http://morelettersfromww1.blogspot.co.uk/p/timeline-for-william-m-skilling.html Timeline] shows that he served with:
** 81st Battery, Canadian Field Artillery
** 40th Battery, 8th Brigade, Canadian Field Artillery
** 48th Battery, Canadian Field Artillery
** 32nd Reserve Battalion, CEF
** 15th Reserve Battalion, CEF
** [[180th Brigade, Royal Field Artillery, British Army]]
** [[73rd Divisional Ammunition Column, Royal Field Artillery, British Army]]
** [[53rd Battalion, Royal Warwickshire Regiment, British Army]]
** also treated at No 2 Stationary Hospital and hospital ship [[SS Carisbrook Castle]]

* Louis Barthas (ed. Edward M. Strauss), ''Poilu: The World War I Notebooks of Louis Barthas, Barrelmaker, 1914-1918'' (Yale University Press, 2014, ISBN 978-0300191592) is a translation of the diaries of French soldier Louis Barthas. Served in these regiments of the French Army (see [[Wikipedia:Louis Barthas]]):
** 280th
** 269th
** 248th

* [http://ww1journeys.org/paul-thuns/ Paul Thuns' War-Diary 1914-1918] (served in German army)

* [https://medium.com/@ri_science/letters-to-gwendoline-one-gallipoli-story-told-through-letters-home-9a3f434ec82e Letters to Gwendoline: One story of Gallipoli told through letters home in memory of Anzac Day]
** [[58th Brigade, Royal Field Artillery, British Army]]

* [https://www.archive.org/stream/englishwomanserg00sanduoft/englishwomanserg00sanduoft_djvu.txt An English Woman-Sergeant in the Serbian Army] by [[Wikipedia:Flora_Sandes|Flora Sandes]], 'the only British woman officially to serve as a soldier in World War I'.

* The [https://www.awm.gov.au/collection/PR88/165/ letters] of [[Wikipedia:Pearl_Corkhill|Sister Pearl Elizabeth Corkhill, AANS]] could shed light on many locations.

* FIELD HOSPITAL & FLYING COLUMN. Being the Journal of an English Nursing Sister in Belgium & Russia by Violetta Thurstan.

* Charlie, who wrote [http://www.peoplescollectionwales.co.uk/discover/query/Blanche%20Woonton these postcards to Blanche Woonton], served on the British hospital ship [[SS Asturias]].

* Where was [http://www.peoplescollectionwales.co.uk/discover/query/ww1%20letter%20Llewelyn%20Williams Llewelyn Williams] based? (Can't identify from internal evidence: more info needed).

* [//www.awm.gov.au/collection/PR03431/ Bayley, Francis Wilton (Private), 1896-1974]: Imperial Camel Corps (which battalion?)

* Ely, Dinsmore, 1894-1918. '[https://archive.org/details/dinsmoreelyonewh00elyd Diary letters of Dinsmore Ely], edited by his father, Dr. James O. Ely'. Library of Congress via Internet Archive. American pilot.

* [http://www.trentu.ca/admin/library/archives/ffowldswelcome.htm Nursing Sister Helen L. Fowlds]

* [http://www.iwm.org.uk/collections/item/object/1030019021 Private Papers of Lieutenant L H Riddell]
** pilot in [[Royal Naval Air Service, British]] and [[Royal Air Force, British]]
** prisoner of war in Germany

*DeWitt C. Ellinwood Jr. (ed.), ''Between Two Worlds: A Rajput Officer in the Indian Army, 1905–21. Based on the Diary of Amar Singh of Jaipur'' (University Press of America, 2005, ISBN 0-7618-3113-4). Which unit did Amar Singh serve in?

== Collections of items ==

* The [http://www.iwm.org.uk/collections/search Imperial War Museum catalogue] has details of personal papers, sound recordings, films and objects from the United Kingdom and former British Empire. Sound recordings include interviews with people who experienced the First World War. Many of these interviews can be heard on the site free of charge and reused for non-commercial purposes. The catalogue is searchable and is also indexed by unit.
* c 3000 videos from WWI at [http://www.europeanfilmgateway.eu/node/33/efg1914/multilingual:1/showOnly:video European Film Gateway's EFG1914 project]
* A list of [http://dh.tcd.ie/letters1916/diyhistory/collections/show/18 letters about the First World War on The Letters of 1916 project site]. You can also help transcribe letters at their site.

* A list of memoirs and diaries at [http://www.firstworldwar.com/diaries/index.htm firstworldwar.com]

* Some [http://www.westernfrontassociation.com/great-war-people/diaries.html diaries listed on the Western Front Association site]

* A massive list of [http://wwi.lib.byu.edu/index.php/Diaries,_Memorials,_Personal_Reminiscences 'Diaries, Memorials, Personal Reminiscences'] compiled by volunteers of the World War I Military History List (WWI-L). '''Pick a name, find out which unit they were with, and add them to the battalion/regiment page!'''

* [http://search.wellcomelibrary.org/iii/encore/search?formids=target&lang=eng&suite=def&reservedids=lang%2Csuite&submitmode=&submitname=&target=digramc&submit=Search Digitised Royal Army Medical Corps (RAMC) papers from the Wellcome Library]
: From their blog post '[http://blog.wellcomelibrary.org/2014/06/rediscovering-the-great-war/ (Re)Discovering the Great War]', 'The Wellcome Library has digitized over 130,000 pages of correspondence, personal and field diaries and reports, photographs and memoirs associated with the allied medical services during World War I. Drawn from material presented to the Royal Army Medical Corps Museum and Archive (now the Army Medical Services Museum Trust), the collection covers virtually every sphere of operations including the Balkan Front, the Dardanelles, East Africa, India, Italy, Malta, Mesopotamia and the Middle East, Russia, and South West Africa, as well as the Western and British Home fronts.'

* The Great War Archive contains [http://www.oucs.ox.ac.uk/ww1lit/db/results.php?CISOBOX1=memoir&CISOFIELD1=objecb&CISOOP1=exact&CISOROOT=%2Fgwa memoirs], [http://www.oucs.ox.ac.uk/ww1lit/db/results.php?CISOBOX1=letter&CISOFIELD1=objecb&CISOOP1=exact&CISOROOT=%2Fgwa letters] and [http://www.oucs.ox.ac.uk/ww1lit/db/results.php?CISOBOX1=diary&CISOFIELD1=objecb&CISOOP1=exact&CISOROOT=%2Fgwa diaries], each of which could be linked to an Allied battalion or regiment.

* An archive of transcribed war diary (Kriegstagebuch), letters and blogs includes a list of diaries from [http://www.war-diary.com/ Weltkrieg / The Great War]

* [http://www.wartimememoriesproject.com/greatwar/allied/ The Wartime Memories Project - The Great War 1914-1918 The Allied Army] contains many personal accounts, mostly second-hand stories related by family members.

* [http://library.leeds.ac.uk/special-collections-liddle-collection The Liddle Collection], Leeds University Library. Includes personal papers of over 4,000 people who experienced the First World War, and over 750 sound recordings and transcripts of interviews about experiences of the First World War.

* [http://www.kingscollections.org/catalogues/lhcma Liddell Hart Centre for Military Archives, King's College London] hold personal papers of senior British personnel.

* [http://transcribe.royalbcmuseum.bc.ca/collections/show/2 Transcribe project at the Royal British Columbia Museum] is a crowdsourced project to transcribe letters and diaries from their archives. The First World War collection includes narratives relating to several Canadian and British units.

* Sharon Ouditt, ''Women Writers of the First World War: An Annotated Bibliography'' (Routledge, 2014). ISBN 978-0415755498. Includes personal narratives of war experiences, and guides to archive collections.

=== Australian personal narratives ===
The Australian War Memorial's [http://www.awm.gov.au/people/profiles/#ANZACConnections Anzac Connections lists 188 (at the time of writing) 'Biographies including private records and diaries']

The State Library of NSW has a [http://ww1.sl.nsw.gov.au/explore/179/ collection of WWI diaries] and [http://ww1.sl.nsw.gov.au/explore/180 letters] online. Can you link the authors to their [[Australian battalions in World War I|battalion page]]?

The [http://diggersdiaries.org/ SLNSW diaries have been analysed and visualised] by Jaume Nualart Vilaplana as part of his PhD. You can explore them via the [http://diggersdiaries.org/reader.html topics Personal, War, Military life, Travelling and The accidental tourist].

A user list of [http://trove.nla.gov.au/list?id=36319 Great War diaries, letters, reminiscences] on Trove (not all diaries may be available online)

[https://www.historypin.org/en/first-world-war-centenary/memories-for-a-new-generation/her-noble-share/geo/-23.808737,145.433219,4/bounds/-52.964039,125.701774,13.492979,165.164664 State Library of Queensland HistoryPin collection for women in WWI]: 'Honouring the contribution of Queensland women during the First World War, both at the home front and the war front'.

[http://www.anzaclive.com.au/ Anzac Live] has 'interactive' posts based on letters and diaries from various men and women.

=== British and Irish personal narratives ===

* [http://gallipoli.rte.ie/people/eye-witnesses Eyewitness accounts from Irish soldiers and nurses involved with the Gallipoli campaign] from Ireland's National Public Service Broadcaster, RTÉ.

* [http://www.tcd.ie/library/fitasfiddles/ Fit as Fiddles and Hard as Nails] is a collection of Irish soldiers' letters, diaries and memoirs digitized by Trinity College Dublin.

* [http://www.librariesni.org.uk/LibrarymenofWW1/Pages/default.aspx The Library Men of WW1]: a collection of letters from 11 Belfast librarians who served in the British Army.

* [http://cymru1914.org/en/home Cymru 1914, The Welsh Experience of the First World War] includes some diaries, photographs, letters and memoirs

* [http://www.peoplescollectionwales.co.uk/users/2357 Cymry'r Rhyfel Mawr / Welsh Voices of the Great War] on People's Collection Wales

* [http://www.cardiff.ac.uk/share/research/projectreports/welshvoices/ Welsh Voices of the Great War Online]

* [http://www.qdg.org.uk/diaries.php Personal Diaries and letters of Officers and Other Ranks from the 1st The Queen’s Dragoon Guards]

* [http://www.herefordshirehistory.org.uk/archive/herefordshire-in-the-great-war Herefordshire in the Great War]

* {{Cite TNA|http://discovery.nationalarchives.gov.uk/details/r/C3852|CAB 45}}, official historian's papers, includes personal diaries and letters that were used to write the British Official History.

* [http://worldwar1veterans.blogspot.co.uk/p/veteran-index.html World War 1 Veterans 1914-1918 blog]: a collection of interviews with veterans conducted by Paul Nixon in the 1980s.

=== Canadian personal narratives ===
If you're interested in finding records for Canadian battalions, the [http://www.canadiangreatwarproject.com/WarDiaries/diarySearch.asp Canadian Great War project has a form to search for War Diaries by unit].

[http://www.collectionscanada.gc.ca/first-world-war/interviews/index-e.html Oral Histories of the First World War: Veterans 1914-1918] based on the CBC's radio broadcast In Flanders Fields, a series of one-on-one interviews with veterans of the Canadian Expeditionary Force, which aired from November 11, 1964 to March 7, 1965. The website is organized into seven themes: Second Ypres, Vimy Ridge, War in the Air, The Somme, Trench Warfare, Passchendaele, Perspectives on War. Contains images, interview audio and transcripts.

=== New Zealand personal narratives ===
[http://www.nzmr.org/troopers.htm Personal Histories of the New Zealand Mounted Rifles] (see also the [http://www.nzmr.org/sitemap.htm sitemap]).

[http://natlib.govt.nz/items?utf8=%E2%9C%93&text=WW100+digitisation+project Diaries listed in the National Library of New Zealand's WW100 digitisation project]

[https://natlib.govt.nz/blog/posts/off-at-last-the-goodbye-would-have-been-too-awful Off at last the goodbye would have been too awful] is a blog post featuring diaries discovered during digitisation at the Alexander Turnbull Library.

[https://natlib.govt.nz/blog/posts/it-s-just-hell-here-now "It's just hell here now"] is an Anzac Day post from the Alexander Turnbull Library that shows what can be learnt from individual diaries.

[http://www.sincewritingyoulast.co.nz/ Since writing you last] is a collection of digitized letters from Invercargill City Libraries and Archives.

=== American personal narratives ===
[http://www.loc.gov/vets/ Veterans History Project]

=== Indian personal narratives ===

* David Omissi (ed.), ''Indian Voices of the Great War: Soldiers' Letters, 1914-1918'', (Palgrave Macmillan, 1999). ISBN 0333751450. Compilation of Indian soldiers' letters.
* [http://searcharchives.bl.uk/IAMS_VU2:IAMS040-000340715 British Library IOR/L/MIL/5/825-828]: Reports of the Censor of Indian Mails in France. These reports contain many extracts of Indian soldiers' letters. Page scans are available through the "Browse this collection" link on the catalogue record page.
* There are lots of references to individual soldiers and Indian Army units mentioned in [http://www.sikhiwiki.org/index.php/Sikhs_in_World_War_1 Sikhs in World War 1 on SihkiWiki] - can you find sources for them and link them to the appropriate [[Indian units in World War I|Indian unit]]?

=== French personal narratives ===

* [http://www.loiret14-18.fr/ La centenaire de la Guerre 14-18 dans le Loiret] is a French site that contains lots of narratives, media and other resources.

== Related Media ==

Images and recordings that aren't personal narratives but could be matched to units or used on other pages.

* There's a stash of [http://hdl.handle.net/10462/comp/2948 fantastic photos in The "Cambrian" Album] from the [http://hdl.handle.net/10462/eadarc/5855 OM77-14 2nd Light Horse Association Records 1914-1920] at the State Library of Queensland. The album includes photos from other units - can you help by adding images and links to unit pages?

* India and the Great War has some [http://indiaww1.in/memory.aspx Stories and Memories] that might provide some clues

* [http://collections.tepapa.govt.nz/Object/397412 New Zealand's Roll of Honour 1915 The Auckland Weekly News Illustrated List] with the names and photos of 'New Zealand Officers and Men killed or wounded in action in Turkey, The Dardanelles & Gallipoli in 1915'
* Items digitised by Te Papa include the [http://collections.tepapa.govt.nz/Object/1366687 Photograph album of Major J.M. Rose, 1st NZEF] - which units are depicted in his photographs?
* The US National Archives has some large collections of WW1 photos, many of which mention unit names in the catalogue descriptions:
** [https://catalog.archives.gov/id/533461 American Unofficial Collection of World War I Photographs, 1917 - 1918]
** [https://catalog.archives.gov/id/533104 British Photographs of World War I, 1914 - 1918]
* Royal Armouries online collections includes [https://collections.royalarmouries.org/first-world-war Arms of the First World War], with photos and catalogue descriptions of weapons.
* [http://www.iwm.org.uk/collections/listing/object-205015340 Imperial War Museum: A H T Andrew's photos]: a large collection of photos taken while he was a medical officer with [[29th Division, British Army]] at Gallipoli, but also showing many other units.

* Berliner Lautarchiv British & Commonwealth recordings: sound recordings of British prisoners of war in Germany. A selection of 66 of these recordings can be heard at [http://sounds.bl.uk/Accents-and-dialects/Berliner-Lautarchiv-British-and-Commonwealth-recordings British Library Sound Archive website]. These need matching to units.

* [http://www.illustratedfirstworldwar.com/ The Illustrated First World War] website contains a large collection of photos from the archives of the Illustrated London News. Free to view but all rights reserved.

* The Library of Congress has a collection of [http://www.loc.gov/pictures/related/?va=exact&st=gallery&q=World+War%2C+1914-1918--Recruiting+%26+enlistment--United+States.&fi=subject&sg=true&op=EQUAL&loclr=blogpic American recruiting posters], and hundreds of [http://www.loc.gov/rr/print/coll/womphotoj/kirtlandintro.html?loclr=blogpic photos taken by Helen Johns Kirtland], including the Italian front.

* The [http://www.bbc.co.uk/arts/yourpaintings/ Your Paintings site] has artworks including Ellis Silas [http://www.bbc.co.uk/arts/yourpaintings/paintings/the-last-roll-call-6236 The Last Roll Call] that could be linked to specific units through their artists.

== Research in progress ==
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Lists of personal diaries, letters, memoirs

2017-12-08T16:37:02Z

GavinRobinson: /* Individual items */ William Milton Skilling units

The letters, diaries, memoirs etc listed below could be linked to specific military units, but each name needs to be researched to find out exactly which unit they were in at the time. '''Can you help? Pick a name or document below, and try to find their military records to show which battalion they were in.'''

Here are some resources on [[researching World War One records]] to get you started.

== Individual items ==
These names need to be matched to individual units so they can be added to its page. '''If you can find out which units these people were in, and [https://mia2.typeform.com/to/dkhC4B send in your links] to have them added to the wiki.''' If you're working on someone's record, you can also edit the wiki to add a note saying so. Remove the name below once it's been added to a regiment or battalion page.

* [http://blogs.bl.uk/untoldlives/2017/11/testimony-from-the-trenches-personal-journeys-of-ww1.html blog post about Alfred Forbes Johnson]. His papers and photos are now British Library Add MS 89235. He served in the Artists Rifles (which battalion?) and Royal Garrison Artillery (which unit?).

* [http://ufdc.ufl.edu/wwi Diary of Albert Huet] in the French infantry. [http://www.crid1418.org/temoins/2016/03/12/huet-albert-1897-1977/ This biography] gives the regiments he served in.

* Petty Officer Hans Heinz Harmes-Emden [http://www.awm.gov.au/people/P3818/#collection-items Australian War Memorial - Anzac Connections - collection items]
** German navy: SMS Emden (1908)

* Bodleian Library, Oxford, [http://www.bodley.ox.ac.uk/dept/scwmss/wmss/online/blcas/kings-african-rifles.html MSS. Afr. s. 1715] (168A) (Box 10): papers of Brigadier M.S. Lush, who served in the Sudan Political Service, 1914-1945.

* Bodleian Library, Oxford, [http://www.bodley.ox.ac.uk/dept/scwmss/wmss/online/blcas/kings-african-rifles.html MSS. Afr. s. 1715] (103) (Box 5): papers of Sir Angus Gillan, who served in the Sudan Political Service and took part in the Darfur campaign in 1916.

* [https://archive.org/details/gogetem00will Go, get 'em! The true adventures of an American aviator of the Lafayette flying corps who was the only Yankee flyer fighting over General Pershing's boys of the Rainbow division in Lorraine, when they first went "over the top" by William A. Wellman] Joined a volunteer ambulance unit, then the French Foreign Legion and served as a pilot in the Lafayette Flying Corps. See [[Wikipedia:William_A._Wellman#World_War_I]] for more details.

* [https://archive.org/details/whenchenalsingsm00wyth When Chenal sings the Marseillaise : With the honors of war : Sister Julie by Wythe Williams] (American journalist in France. Not clear from internal evidence which units it covers.)

* [http://lettersfromww1.blogspot.com Letters home from Private Edward Ray Jackson] (Canadian). [http://lettersfromww1.blogspot.co.uk/p/time-line-for-edward-ray-jackson.html Timeline] shows that he served with:
** [[160th Battalion, Canadian Expeditionary Force (CEF)]]
** [[1st Battalion, Canadian Expeditionary Force (CEF)]]
** wounded, treated at:
*** 7 Casualty Clearing Station
*** 32 Casualty Clearing Station
*** East Suffolk Hospital, Ipswich
*** Woodcote Convalescent Hospital, Epsom]
*** hospital ship SS Esquibo

* [http://haroldskillingslettersfromww1.blogspot.com Harold Skilling's Letters From World War One]
** Canadian Expeditionary Force
** Royal Flying Corps

* [http://morelettersfromww1.blogspot.com Lieutenant William Milton Skilling]. [http://morelettersfromww1.blogspot.co.uk/p/timeline-for-william-m-skilling.html Timeline] shows that he served with:
** 81st Battery, Canadian Field Artillery
** 40th Battery, 8th Brigade, Canadian Field Artillery
** 48th Battery, Canadian Field Artillery
** 32nd Reserve Battalion, CEF
** 15th Reserve Battalion, CEF
** [[180th Brigade, Royal Field Artillery, British Army]]
** [[73rd Divisional Ammunition Column, Royal Field Artillery, British Army]]
** [[53rd Battalion, Royal Warwickshire Regiment, British Army]]
** also treated at No 2 Stationary Hospital and hospital ship [[SS Carisbrook Castle]]

* Louis Barthas (ed. Edward M. Strauss), ''Poilu: The World War I Notebooks of Louis Barthas, Barrelmaker, 1914-1918'' (Yale University Press, 2014, ISBN 978-0300191592) is a translation of the diaries of French soldier Louis Barthas. Served in these regiments of the French Army (see [[Wikipedia:Louis Barthas]]):
** 280th
** 269th
** 248th

* [http://ww1journeys.org/paul-thuns/ Paul Thuns' War-Diary 1914-1918] (served in German army)

* [https://medium.com/@ri_science/letters-to-gwendoline-one-gallipoli-story-told-through-letters-home-9a3f434ec82e Letters to Gwendoline: One story of Gallipoli told through letters home in memory of Anzac Day] (58th Brigade, Royal Field Artillery)

* [https://www.archive.org/stream/englishwomanserg00sanduoft/englishwomanserg00sanduoft_djvu.txt An English Woman-Sergeant in the Serbian Army] by [[Wikipedia:Flora_Sandes|Flora Sandes]], 'the only British woman officially to serve as a soldier in World War I'.

* The [https://www.awm.gov.au/collection/PR88/165/ letters] of [[Wikipedia:Pearl_Corkhill|Sister Pearl Elizabeth Corkhill, AANS]] could shed light on many locations.

* FIELD HOSPITAL & FLYING COLUMN. Being the Journal of an English Nursing Sister in Belgium & Russia by Violetta Thurstan.

* Charlie, who wrote [http://www.peoplescollectionwales.co.uk/discover/query/Blanche%20Woonton these postcards to Blanche Woonton], served on the British hospital ship [[SS Asturias]].

* Where was [http://www.peoplescollectionwales.co.uk/discover/query/ww1%20letter%20Llewelyn%20Williams Llewelyn Williams] based? (Can't identify from internal evidence: more info needed).

* [//www.awm.gov.au/collection/PR03431/ Bayley, Francis Wilton (Private), 1896-1974]: Imperial Camel Corps (which battalion?)

* Ely, Dinsmore, 1894-1918. '[https://archive.org/details/dinsmoreelyonewh00elyd Diary letters of Dinsmore Ely], edited by his father, Dr. James O. Ely'. Library of Congress via Internet Archive. American pilot.

* [http://www.trentu.ca/admin/library/archives/ffowldswelcome.htm Nursing Sister Helen L. Fowlds]

* [http://www.iwm.org.uk/collections/item/object/1030019021 Private Papers of Lieutenant L H Riddell]
** pilot in [[Royal Naval Air Service, British]] and [[Royal Air Force, British]]
** prisoner of war in Germany

*DeWitt C. Ellinwood Jr. (ed.), ''Between Two Worlds: A Rajput Officer in the Indian Army, 1905–21. Based on the Diary of Amar Singh of Jaipur'' (University Press of America, 2005, ISBN 0-7618-3113-4). Which unit did Amar Singh serve in?

== Collections of items ==

* The [http://www.iwm.org.uk/collections/search Imperial War Museum catalogue] has details of personal papers, sound recordings, films and objects from the United Kingdom and former British Empire. Sound recordings include interviews with people who experienced the First World War. Many of these interviews can be heard on the site free of charge and reused for non-commercial purposes. The catalogue is searchable and is also indexed by unit.
* c 3000 videos from WWI at [http://www.europeanfilmgateway.eu/node/33/efg1914/multilingual:1/showOnly:video European Film Gateway's EFG1914 project]
* A list of [http://dh.tcd.ie/letters1916/diyhistory/collections/show/18 letters about the First World War on The Letters of 1916 project site]. You can also help transcribe letters at their site.

* A list of memoirs and diaries at [http://www.firstworldwar.com/diaries/index.htm firstworldwar.com]

* Some [http://www.westernfrontassociation.com/great-war-people/diaries.html diaries listed on the Western Front Association site]

* A massive list of [http://wwi.lib.byu.edu/index.php/Diaries,_Memorials,_Personal_Reminiscences 'Diaries, Memorials, Personal Reminiscences'] compiled by volunteers of the World War I Military History List (WWI-L). '''Pick a name, find out which unit they were with, and add them to the battalion/regiment page!'''

* [http://search.wellcomelibrary.org/iii/encore/search?formids=target&lang=eng&suite=def&reservedids=lang%2Csuite&submitmode=&submitname=&target=digramc&submit=Search Digitised Royal Army Medical Corps (RAMC) papers from the Wellcome Library]
: From their blog post '[http://blog.wellcomelibrary.org/2014/06/rediscovering-the-great-war/ (Re)Discovering the Great War]', 'The Wellcome Library has digitized over 130,000 pages of correspondence, personal and field diaries and reports, photographs and memoirs associated with the allied medical services during World War I. Drawn from material presented to the Royal Army Medical Corps Museum and Archive (now the Army Medical Services Museum Trust), the collection covers virtually every sphere of operations including the Balkan Front, the Dardanelles, East Africa, India, Italy, Malta, Mesopotamia and the Middle East, Russia, and South West Africa, as well as the Western and British Home fronts.'

* The Great War Archive contains [http://www.oucs.ox.ac.uk/ww1lit/db/results.php?CISOBOX1=memoir&CISOFIELD1=objecb&CISOOP1=exact&CISOROOT=%2Fgwa memoirs], [http://www.oucs.ox.ac.uk/ww1lit/db/results.php?CISOBOX1=letter&CISOFIELD1=objecb&CISOOP1=exact&CISOROOT=%2Fgwa letters] and [http://www.oucs.ox.ac.uk/ww1lit/db/results.php?CISOBOX1=diary&CISOFIELD1=objecb&CISOOP1=exact&CISOROOT=%2Fgwa diaries], each of which could be linked to an Allied battalion or regiment.

* An archive of transcribed war diary (Kriegstagebuch), letters and blogs includes a list of diaries from [http://www.war-diary.com/ Weltkrieg / The Great War]

* [http://www.wartimememoriesproject.com/greatwar/allied/ The Wartime Memories Project - The Great War 1914-1918 The Allied Army] contains many personal accounts, mostly second-hand stories related by family members.

* [http://library.leeds.ac.uk/special-collections-liddle-collection The Liddle Collection], Leeds University Library. Includes personal papers of over 4,000 people who experienced the First World War, and over 750 sound recordings and transcripts of interviews about experiences of the First World War.

* [http://www.kingscollections.org/catalogues/lhcma Liddell Hart Centre for Military Archives, King's College London] hold personal papers of senior British personnel.

* [http://transcribe.royalbcmuseum.bc.ca/collections/show/2 Transcribe project at the Royal British Columbia Museum] is a crowdsourced project to transcribe letters and diaries from their archives. The First World War collection includes narratives relating to several Canadian and British units.

* Sharon Ouditt, ''Women Writers of the First World War: An Annotated Bibliography'' (Routledge, 2014). ISBN 978-0415755498. Includes personal narratives of war experiences, and guides to archive collections.

=== Australian personal narratives ===
The Australian War Memorial's [http://www.awm.gov.au/people/profiles/#ANZACConnections Anzac Connections lists 188 (at the time of writing) 'Biographies including private records and diaries']

The State Library of NSW has a [http://ww1.sl.nsw.gov.au/explore/179/ collection of WWI diaries] and [http://ww1.sl.nsw.gov.au/explore/180 letters] online. Can you link the authors to their [[Australian battalions in World War I|battalion page]]?

The [http://diggersdiaries.org/ SLNSW diaries have been analysed and visualised] by Jaume Nualart Vilaplana as part of his PhD. You can explore them via the [http://diggersdiaries.org/reader.html topics Personal, War, Military life, Travelling and The accidental tourist].

A user list of [http://trove.nla.gov.au/list?id=36319 Great War diaries, letters, reminiscences] on Trove (not all diaries may be available online)

[https://www.historypin.org/en/first-world-war-centenary/memories-for-a-new-generation/her-noble-share/geo/-23.808737,145.433219,4/bounds/-52.964039,125.701774,13.492979,165.164664 State Library of Queensland HistoryPin collection for women in WWI]: 'Honouring the contribution of Queensland women during the First World War, both at the home front and the war front'.

[http://www.anzaclive.com.au/ Anzac Live] has 'interactive' posts based on letters and diaries from various men and women.

=== British and Irish personal narratives ===

* [http://gallipoli.rte.ie/people/eye-witnesses Eyewitness accounts from Irish soldiers and nurses involved with the Gallipoli campaign] from Ireland's National Public Service Broadcaster, RTÉ.

* [http://www.tcd.ie/library/fitasfiddles/ Fit as Fiddles and Hard as Nails] is a collection of Irish soldiers' letters, diaries and memoirs digitized by Trinity College Dublin.

* [http://www.librariesni.org.uk/LibrarymenofWW1/Pages/default.aspx The Library Men of WW1]: a collection of letters from 11 Belfast librarians who served in the British Army.

* [http://cymru1914.org/en/home Cymru 1914, The Welsh Experience of the First World War] includes some diaries, photographs, letters and memoirs

* [http://www.peoplescollectionwales.co.uk/users/2357 Cymry'r Rhyfel Mawr / Welsh Voices of the Great War] on People's Collection Wales

* [http://www.cardiff.ac.uk/share/research/projectreports/welshvoices/ Welsh Voices of the Great War Online]

* [http://www.qdg.org.uk/diaries.php Personal Diaries and letters of Officers and Other Ranks from the 1st The Queen’s Dragoon Guards]

* [http://www.herefordshirehistory.org.uk/archive/herefordshire-in-the-great-war Herefordshire in the Great War]

* {{Cite TNA|http://discovery.nationalarchives.gov.uk/details/r/C3852|CAB 45}}, official historian's papers, includes personal diaries and letters that were used to write the British Official History.

* [http://worldwar1veterans.blogspot.co.uk/p/veteran-index.html World War 1 Veterans 1914-1918 blog]: a collection of interviews with veterans conducted by Paul Nixon in the 1980s.

=== Canadian personal narratives ===
If you're interested in finding records for Canadian battalions, the [http://www.canadiangreatwarproject.com/WarDiaries/diarySearch.asp Canadian Great War project has a form to search for War Diaries by unit].

[http://www.collectionscanada.gc.ca/first-world-war/interviews/index-e.html Oral Histories of the First World War: Veterans 1914-1918] based on the CBC's radio broadcast In Flanders Fields, a series of one-on-one interviews with veterans of the Canadian Expeditionary Force, which aired from November 11, 1964 to March 7, 1965. The website is organized into seven themes: Second Ypres, Vimy Ridge, War in the Air, The Somme, Trench Warfare, Passchendaele, Perspectives on War. Contains images, interview audio and transcripts.

=== New Zealand personal narratives ===
[http://www.nzmr.org/troopers.htm Personal Histories of the New Zealand Mounted Rifles] (see also the [http://www.nzmr.org/sitemap.htm sitemap]).

[http://natlib.govt.nz/items?utf8=%E2%9C%93&text=WW100+digitisation+project Diaries listed in the National Library of New Zealand's WW100 digitisation project]

[https://natlib.govt.nz/blog/posts/off-at-last-the-goodbye-would-have-been-too-awful Off at last the goodbye would have been too awful] is a blog post featuring diaries discovered during digitisation at the Alexander Turnbull Library.

[https://natlib.govt.nz/blog/posts/it-s-just-hell-here-now "It's just hell here now"] is an Anzac Day post from the Alexander Turnbull Library that shows what can be learnt from individual diaries.

[http://www.sincewritingyoulast.co.nz/ Since writing you last] is a collection of digitized letters from Invercargill City Libraries and Archives.

=== American personal narratives ===
[http://www.loc.gov/vets/ Veterans History Project]

=== Indian personal narratives ===

* David Omissi (ed.), ''Indian Voices of the Great War: Soldiers' Letters, 1914-1918'', (Palgrave Macmillan, 1999). ISBN 0333751450. Compilation of Indian soldiers' letters.
* [http://searcharchives.bl.uk/IAMS_VU2:IAMS040-000340715 British Library IOR/L/MIL/5/825-828]: Reports of the Censor of Indian Mails in France. These reports contain many extracts of Indian soldiers' letters. Page scans are available through the "Browse this collection" link on the catalogue record page.
* There are lots of references to individual soldiers and Indian Army units mentioned in [http://www.sikhiwiki.org/index.php/Sikhs_in_World_War_1 Sikhs in World War 1 on SihkiWiki] - can you find sources for them and link them to the appropriate [[Indian units in World War I|Indian unit]]?

=== French personal narratives ===

* [http://www.loiret14-18.fr/ La centenaire de la Guerre 14-18 dans le Loiret] is a French site that contains lots of narratives, media and other resources.

== Related Media ==

Images and recordings that aren't personal narratives but could be matched to units or used on other pages.

* There's a stash of [http://hdl.handle.net/10462/comp/2948 fantastic photos in The "Cambrian" Album] from the [http://hdl.handle.net/10462/eadarc/5855 OM77-14 2nd Light Horse Association Records 1914-1920] at the State Library of Queensland. The album includes photos from other units - can you help by adding images and links to unit pages?

* India and the Great War has some [http://indiaww1.in/memory.aspx Stories and Memories] that might provide some clues

* [http://collections.tepapa.govt.nz/Object/397412 New Zealand's Roll of Honour 1915 The Auckland Weekly News Illustrated List] with the names and photos of 'New Zealand Officers and Men killed or wounded in action in Turkey, The Dardanelles & Gallipoli in 1915'
* Items digitised by Te Papa include the [http://collections.tepapa.govt.nz/Object/1366687 Photograph album of Major J.M. Rose, 1st NZEF] - which units are depicted in his photographs?
* The US National Archives has some large collections of WW1 photos, many of which mention unit names in the catalogue descriptions:
** [https://catalog.archives.gov/id/533461 American Unofficial Collection of World War I Photographs, 1917 - 1918]
** [https://catalog.archives.gov/id/533104 British Photographs of World War I, 1914 - 1918]
* Royal Armouries online collections includes [https://collections.royalarmouries.org/first-world-war Arms of the First World War], with photos and catalogue descriptions of weapons.
* [http://www.iwm.org.uk/collections/listing/object-205015340 Imperial War Museum: A H T Andrew's photos]: a large collection of photos taken while he was a medical officer with [[29th Division, British Army]] at Gallipoli, but also showing many other units.

* Berliner Lautarchiv British & Commonwealth recordings: sound recordings of British prisoners of war in Germany. A selection of 66 of these recordings can be heard at [http://sounds.bl.uk/Accents-and-dialects/Berliner-Lautarchiv-British-and-Commonwealth-recordings British Library Sound Archive website]. These need matching to units.

* [http://www.illustratedfirstworldwar.com/ The Illustrated First World War] website contains a large collection of photos from the archives of the Illustrated London News. Free to view but all rights reserved.

* The Library of Congress has a collection of [http://www.loc.gov/pictures/related/?va=exact&st=gallery&q=World+War%2C+1914-1918--Recruiting+%26+enlistment--United+States.&fi=subject&sg=true&op=EQUAL&loclr=blogpic American recruiting posters], and hundreds of [http://www.loc.gov/rr/print/coll/womphotoj/kirtlandintro.html?loclr=blogpic photos taken by Helen Johns Kirtland], including the Italian front.

* The [http://www.bbc.co.uk/arts/yourpaintings/ Your Paintings site] has artworks including Ellis Silas [http://www.bbc.co.uk/arts/yourpaintings/paintings/the-last-roll-call-6236 The Last Roll Call] that could be linked to specific units through their artists.

== Research in progress ==
Add notes or links here for diaries you need help researching, missing links from the sites above, etc.

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Lists of personal diaries, letters, memoirs

2017-12-08T16:29:07Z

GavinRobinson: /* Individual items */ added units for Jackson

The letters, diaries, memoirs etc listed below could be linked to specific military units, but each name needs to be researched to find out exactly which unit they were in at the time. '''Can you help? Pick a name or document below, and try to find their military records to show which battalion they were in.'''

Here are some resources on [[researching World War One records]] to get you started.

== Individual items ==
These names need to be matched to individual units so they can be added to its page. '''If you can find out which units these people were in, and [https://mia2.typeform.com/to/dkhC4B send in your links] to have them added to the wiki.''' If you're working on someone's record, you can also edit the wiki to add a note saying so. Remove the name below once it's been added to a regiment or battalion page.

* [http://blogs.bl.uk/untoldlives/2017/11/testimony-from-the-trenches-personal-journeys-of-ww1.html blog post about Alfred Forbes Johnson]. His papers and photos are now British Library Add MS 89235. He served in the Artists Rifles (which battalion?) and Royal Garrison Artillery (which unit?).

* [http://ufdc.ufl.edu/wwi Diary of Albert Huet] in the French infantry. [http://www.crid1418.org/temoins/2016/03/12/huet-albert-1897-1977/ This biography] gives the regiments he served in.

* Petty Officer Hans Heinz Harmes-Emden [http://www.awm.gov.au/people/P3818/#collection-items Australian War Memorial - Anzac Connections - collection items]
** German navy: SMS Emden (1908)

* Bodleian Library, Oxford, [http://www.bodley.ox.ac.uk/dept/scwmss/wmss/online/blcas/kings-african-rifles.html MSS. Afr. s. 1715] (168A) (Box 10): papers of Brigadier M.S. Lush, who served in the Sudan Political Service, 1914-1945.

* Bodleian Library, Oxford, [http://www.bodley.ox.ac.uk/dept/scwmss/wmss/online/blcas/kings-african-rifles.html MSS. Afr. s. 1715] (103) (Box 5): papers of Sir Angus Gillan, who served in the Sudan Political Service and took part in the Darfur campaign in 1916.

* [https://archive.org/details/gogetem00will Go, get 'em! The true adventures of an American aviator of the Lafayette flying corps who was the only Yankee flyer fighting over General Pershing's boys of the Rainbow division in Lorraine, when they first went "over the top" by William A. Wellman] Joined a volunteer ambulance unit, then the French Foreign Legion and served as a pilot in the Lafayette Flying Corps. See [[Wikipedia:William_A._Wellman#World_War_I]] for more details.

* [https://archive.org/details/whenchenalsingsm00wyth When Chenal sings the Marseillaise : With the honors of war : Sister Julie by Wythe Williams] (American journalist in France. Not clear from internal evidence which units it covers.)

* [http://lettersfromww1.blogspot.com Letters home from Private Edward Ray Jackson] (Canadian). [http://lettersfromww1.blogspot.co.uk/p/time-line-for-edward-ray-jackson.html Timeline] shows that he served with:
** [[160th Battalion, Canadian Expeditionary Force (CEF)]]
** [[1st Battalion, Canadian Expeditionary Force (CEF)]]
** wounded, treated at:
*** 7 Casualty Clearing Station
*** 32 Casualty Clearing Station
*** East Suffolk Hospital, Ipswich
*** Woodcote Convalescent Hospital, Epsom]
*** hospital ship SS Esquibo

* [http://haroldskillingslettersfromww1.blogspot.com Harold Skilling's Letters From World War One]
** Canadian Expeditionary Force
** Royal Flying Corps

* [http://morelettersfromww1.blogspot.com Lieutenant William Milton Skilling]
** Canadian Expeditionary Force
** [[Royal Artillery, British Army]]
** [[53rd Battalion, Royal Warwickshire Regiment, British Army]]

* Louis Barthas (ed. Edward M. Strauss), ''Poilu: The World War I Notebooks of Louis Barthas, Barrelmaker, 1914-1918'' (Yale University Press, 2014, ISBN 978-0300191592) is a translation of the diaries of French soldier Louis Barthas. Served in these regiments of the French Army (see [[Wikipedia:Louis Barthas]]):
** 280th
** 269th
** 248th

* [http://ww1journeys.org/paul-thuns/ Paul Thuns' War-Diary 1914-1918] (served in German army)

* [https://medium.com/@ri_science/letters-to-gwendoline-one-gallipoli-story-told-through-letters-home-9a3f434ec82e Letters to Gwendoline: One story of Gallipoli told through letters home in memory of Anzac Day] (58th Brigade, Royal Field Artillery)

* [https://www.archive.org/stream/englishwomanserg00sanduoft/englishwomanserg00sanduoft_djvu.txt An English Woman-Sergeant in the Serbian Army] by [[Wikipedia:Flora_Sandes|Flora Sandes]], 'the only British woman officially to serve as a soldier in World War I'.

* The [https://www.awm.gov.au/collection/PR88/165/ letters] of [[Wikipedia:Pearl_Corkhill|Sister Pearl Elizabeth Corkhill, AANS]] could shed light on many locations.

* FIELD HOSPITAL & FLYING COLUMN. Being the Journal of an English Nursing Sister in Belgium & Russia by Violetta Thurstan.

* Charlie, who wrote [http://www.peoplescollectionwales.co.uk/discover/query/Blanche%20Woonton these postcards to Blanche Woonton], served on the British hospital ship [[SS Asturias]].

* Where was [http://www.peoplescollectionwales.co.uk/discover/query/ww1%20letter%20Llewelyn%20Williams Llewelyn Williams] based? (Can't identify from internal evidence: more info needed).

* [//www.awm.gov.au/collection/PR03431/ Bayley, Francis Wilton (Private), 1896-1974]: Imperial Camel Corps (which battalion?)

* Ely, Dinsmore, 1894-1918. '[https://archive.org/details/dinsmoreelyonewh00elyd Diary letters of Dinsmore Ely], edited by his father, Dr. James O. Ely'. Library of Congress via Internet Archive. American pilot.

* [http://www.trentu.ca/admin/library/archives/ffowldswelcome.htm Nursing Sister Helen L. Fowlds]

* [http://www.iwm.org.uk/collections/item/object/1030019021 Private Papers of Lieutenant L H Riddell]
** pilot in [[Royal Naval Air Service, British]] and [[Royal Air Force, British]]
** prisoner of war in Germany

*DeWitt C. Ellinwood Jr. (ed.), ''Between Two Worlds: A Rajput Officer in the Indian Army, 1905–21. Based on the Diary of Amar Singh of Jaipur'' (University Press of America, 2005, ISBN 0-7618-3113-4). Which unit did Amar Singh serve in?

== Collections of items ==

* The [http://www.iwm.org.uk/collections/search Imperial War Museum catalogue] has details of personal papers, sound recordings, films and objects from the United Kingdom and former British Empire. Sound recordings include interviews with people who experienced the First World War. Many of these interviews can be heard on the site free of charge and reused for non-commercial purposes. The catalogue is searchable and is also indexed by unit.
* c 3000 videos from WWI at [http://www.europeanfilmgateway.eu/node/33/efg1914/multilingual:1/showOnly:video European Film Gateway's EFG1914 project]
* A list of [http://dh.tcd.ie/letters1916/diyhistory/collections/show/18 letters about the First World War on The Letters of 1916 project site]. You can also help transcribe letters at their site.

* A list of memoirs and diaries at [http://www.firstworldwar.com/diaries/index.htm firstworldwar.com]

* Some [http://www.westernfrontassociation.com/great-war-people/diaries.html diaries listed on the Western Front Association site]

* A massive list of [http://wwi.lib.byu.edu/index.php/Diaries,_Memorials,_Personal_Reminiscences 'Diaries, Memorials, Personal Reminiscences'] compiled by volunteers of the World War I Military History List (WWI-L). '''Pick a name, find out which unit they were with, and add them to the battalion/regiment page!'''

* [http://search.wellcomelibrary.org/iii/encore/search?formids=target&lang=eng&suite=def&reservedids=lang%2Csuite&submitmode=&submitname=&target=digramc&submit=Search Digitised Royal Army Medical Corps (RAMC) papers from the Wellcome Library]
: From their blog post '[http://blog.wellcomelibrary.org/2014/06/rediscovering-the-great-war/ (Re)Discovering the Great War]', 'The Wellcome Library has digitized over 130,000 pages of correspondence, personal and field diaries and reports, photographs and memoirs associated with the allied medical services during World War I. Drawn from material presented to the Royal Army Medical Corps Museum and Archive (now the Army Medical Services Museum Trust), the collection covers virtually every sphere of operations including the Balkan Front, the Dardanelles, East Africa, India, Italy, Malta, Mesopotamia and the Middle East, Russia, and South West Africa, as well as the Western and British Home fronts.'

* The Great War Archive contains [http://www.oucs.ox.ac.uk/ww1lit/db/results.php?CISOBOX1=memoir&CISOFIELD1=objecb&CISOOP1=exact&CISOROOT=%2Fgwa memoirs], [http://www.oucs.ox.ac.uk/ww1lit/db/results.php?CISOBOX1=letter&CISOFIELD1=objecb&CISOOP1=exact&CISOROOT=%2Fgwa letters] and [http://www.oucs.ox.ac.uk/ww1lit/db/results.php?CISOBOX1=diary&CISOFIELD1=objecb&CISOOP1=exact&CISOROOT=%2Fgwa diaries], each of which could be linked to an Allied battalion or regiment.

* An archive of transcribed war diary (Kriegstagebuch), letters and blogs includes a list of diaries from [http://www.war-diary.com/ Weltkrieg / The Great War]

* [http://www.wartimememoriesproject.com/greatwar/allied/ The Wartime Memories Project - The Great War 1914-1918 The Allied Army] contains many personal accounts, mostly second-hand stories related by family members.

* [http://library.leeds.ac.uk/special-collections-liddle-collection The Liddle Collection], Leeds University Library. Includes personal papers of over 4,000 people who experienced the First World War, and over 750 sound recordings and transcripts of interviews about experiences of the First World War.

* [http://www.kingscollections.org/catalogues/lhcma Liddell Hart Centre for Military Archives, King's College London] hold personal papers of senior British personnel.

* [http://transcribe.royalbcmuseum.bc.ca/collections/show/2 Transcribe project at the Royal British Columbia Museum] is a crowdsourced project to transcribe letters and diaries from their archives. The First World War collection includes narratives relating to several Canadian and British units.

* Sharon Ouditt, ''Women Writers of the First World War: An Annotated Bibliography'' (Routledge, 2014). ISBN 978-0415755498. Includes personal narratives of war experiences, and guides to archive collections.

=== Australian personal narratives ===
The Australian War Memorial's [http://www.awm.gov.au/people/profiles/#ANZACConnections Anzac Connections lists 188 (at the time of writing) 'Biographies including private records and diaries']

The State Library of NSW has a [http://ww1.sl.nsw.gov.au/explore/179/ collection of WWI diaries] and [http://ww1.sl.nsw.gov.au/explore/180 letters] online. Can you link the authors to their [[Australian battalions in World War I|battalion page]]?

The [http://diggersdiaries.org/ SLNSW diaries have been analysed and visualised] by Jaume Nualart Vilaplana as part of his PhD. You can explore them via the [http://diggersdiaries.org/reader.html topics Personal, War, Military life, Travelling and The accidental tourist].

A user list of [http://trove.nla.gov.au/list?id=36319 Great War diaries, letters, reminiscences] on Trove (not all diaries may be available online)

[https://www.historypin.org/en/first-world-war-centenary/memories-for-a-new-generation/her-noble-share/geo/-23.808737,145.433219,4/bounds/-52.964039,125.701774,13.492979,165.164664 State Library of Queensland HistoryPin collection for women in WWI]: 'Honouring the contribution of Queensland women during the First World War, both at the home front and the war front'.

[http://www.anzaclive.com.au/ Anzac Live] has 'interactive' posts based on letters and diaries from various men and women.

=== British and Irish personal narratives ===

* [http://gallipoli.rte.ie/people/eye-witnesses Eyewitness accounts from Irish soldiers and nurses involved with the Gallipoli campaign] from Ireland's National Public Service Broadcaster, RTÉ.

* [http://www.tcd.ie/library/fitasfiddles/ Fit as Fiddles and Hard as Nails] is a collection of Irish soldiers' letters, diaries and memoirs digitized by Trinity College Dublin.

* [http://www.librariesni.org.uk/LibrarymenofWW1/Pages/default.aspx The Library Men of WW1]: a collection of letters from 11 Belfast librarians who served in the British Army.

* [http://cymru1914.org/en/home Cymru 1914, The Welsh Experience of the First World War] includes some diaries, photographs, letters and memoirs

* [http://www.peoplescollectionwales.co.uk/users/2357 Cymry'r Rhyfel Mawr / Welsh Voices of the Great War] on People's Collection Wales

* [http://www.cardiff.ac.uk/share/research/projectreports/welshvoices/ Welsh Voices of the Great War Online]

* [http://www.qdg.org.uk/diaries.php Personal Diaries and letters of Officers and Other Ranks from the 1st The Queen’s Dragoon Guards]

* [http://www.herefordshirehistory.org.uk/archive/herefordshire-in-the-great-war Herefordshire in the Great War]

* {{Cite TNA|http://discovery.nationalarchives.gov.uk/details/r/C3852|CAB 45}}, official historian's papers, includes personal diaries and letters that were used to write the British Official History.

* [http://worldwar1veterans.blogspot.co.uk/p/veteran-index.html World War 1 Veterans 1914-1918 blog]: a collection of interviews with veterans conducted by Paul Nixon in the 1980s.

=== Canadian personal narratives ===
If you're interested in finding records for Canadian battalions, the [http://www.canadiangreatwarproject.com/WarDiaries/diarySearch.asp Canadian Great War project has a form to search for War Diaries by unit].

[http://www.collectionscanada.gc.ca/first-world-war/interviews/index-e.html Oral Histories of the First World War: Veterans 1914-1918] based on the CBC's radio broadcast In Flanders Fields, a series of one-on-one interviews with veterans of the Canadian Expeditionary Force, which aired from November 11, 1964 to March 7, 1965. The website is organized into seven themes: Second Ypres, Vimy Ridge, War in the Air, The Somme, Trench Warfare, Passchendaele, Perspectives on War. Contains images, interview audio and transcripts.

=== New Zealand personal narratives ===
[http://www.nzmr.org/troopers.htm Personal Histories of the New Zealand Mounted Rifles] (see also the [http://www.nzmr.org/sitemap.htm sitemap]).

[http://natlib.govt.nz/items?utf8=%E2%9C%93&text=WW100+digitisation+project Diaries listed in the National Library of New Zealand's WW100 digitisation project]

[https://natlib.govt.nz/blog/posts/off-at-last-the-goodbye-would-have-been-too-awful Off at last the goodbye would have been too awful] is a blog post featuring diaries discovered during digitisation at the Alexander Turnbull Library.

[https://natlib.govt.nz/blog/posts/it-s-just-hell-here-now "It's just hell here now"] is an Anzac Day post from the Alexander Turnbull Library that shows what can be learnt from individual diaries.

[http://www.sincewritingyoulast.co.nz/ Since writing you last] is a collection of digitized letters from Invercargill City Libraries and Archives.

=== American personal narratives ===
[http://www.loc.gov/vets/ Veterans History Project]

=== Indian personal narratives ===

* David Omissi (ed.), ''Indian Voices of the Great War: Soldiers' Letters, 1914-1918'', (Palgrave Macmillan, 1999). ISBN 0333751450. Compilation of Indian soldiers' letters.
* [http://searcharchives.bl.uk/IAMS_VU2:IAMS040-000340715 British Library IOR/L/MIL/5/825-828]: Reports of the Censor of Indian Mails in France. These reports contain many extracts of Indian soldiers' letters. Page scans are available through the "Browse this collection" link on the catalogue record page.
* There are lots of references to individual soldiers and Indian Army units mentioned in [http://www.sikhiwiki.org/index.php/Sikhs_in_World_War_1 Sikhs in World War 1 on SihkiWiki] - can you find sources for them and link them to the appropriate [[Indian units in World War I|Indian unit]]?

=== French personal narratives ===

* [http://www.loiret14-18.fr/ La centenaire de la Guerre 14-18 dans le Loiret] is a French site that contains lots of narratives, media and other resources.

== Related Media ==

Images and recordings that aren't personal narratives but could be matched to units or used on other pages.

* There's a stash of [http://hdl.handle.net/10462/comp/2948 fantastic photos in The "Cambrian" Album] from the [http://hdl.handle.net/10462/eadarc/5855 OM77-14 2nd Light Horse Association Records 1914-1920] at the State Library of Queensland. The album includes photos from other units - can you help by adding images and links to unit pages?

* India and the Great War has some [http://indiaww1.in/memory.aspx Stories and Memories] that might provide some clues

* [http://collections.tepapa.govt.nz/Object/397412 New Zealand's Roll of Honour 1915 The Auckland Weekly News Illustrated List] with the names and photos of 'New Zealand Officers and Men killed or wounded in action in Turkey, The Dardanelles & Gallipoli in 1915'
* Items digitised by Te Papa include the [http://collections.tepapa.govt.nz/Object/1366687 Photograph album of Major J.M. Rose, 1st NZEF] - which units are depicted in his photographs?
* The US National Archives has some large collections of WW1 photos, many of which mention unit names in the catalogue descriptions:
** [https://catalog.archives.gov/id/533461 American Unofficial Collection of World War I Photographs, 1917 - 1918]
** [https://catalog.archives.gov/id/533104 British Photographs of World War I, 1914 - 1918]
* Royal Armouries online collections includes [https://collections.royalarmouries.org/first-world-war Arms of the First World War], with photos and catalogue descriptions of weapons.
* [http://www.iwm.org.uk/collections/listing/object-205015340 Imperial War Museum: A H T Andrew's photos]: a large collection of photos taken while he was a medical officer with [[29th Division, British Army]] at Gallipoli, but also showing many other units.

* Berliner Lautarchiv British & Commonwealth recordings: sound recordings of British prisoners of war in Germany. A selection of 66 of these recordings can be heard at [http://sounds.bl.uk/Accents-and-dialects/Berliner-Lautarchiv-British-and-Commonwealth-recordings British Library Sound Archive website]. These need matching to units.

* [http://www.illustratedfirstworldwar.com/ The Illustrated First World War] website contains a large collection of photos from the archives of the Illustrated London News. Free to view but all rights reserved.

* The Library of Congress has a collection of [http://www.loc.gov/pictures/related/?va=exact&st=gallery&q=World+War%2C+1914-1918--Recruiting+%26+enlistment--United+States.&fi=subject&sg=true&op=EQUAL&loclr=blogpic American recruiting posters], and hundreds of [http://www.loc.gov/rr/print/coll/womphotoj/kirtlandintro.html?loclr=blogpic photos taken by Helen Johns Kirtland], including the Italian front.

* The [http://www.bbc.co.uk/arts/yourpaintings/ Your Paintings site] has artworks including Ellis Silas [http://www.bbc.co.uk/arts/yourpaintings/paintings/the-last-roll-call-6236 The Last Roll Call] that could be linked to specific units through their artists.

== Research in progress ==
Add notes or links here for diaries you need help researching, missing links from the sites above, etc.

[[Category:Sources]]
[[Category:To do]]

Lists of personal diaries, letters, memoirs

2017-12-08T16:22:35Z

GavinRobinson: /* Individual items */ deleted some dead links

The letters, diaries, memoirs etc listed below could be linked to specific military units, but each name needs to be researched to find out exactly which unit they were in at the time. '''Can you help? Pick a name or document below, and try to find their military records to show which battalion they were in.'''

Here are some resources on [[researching World War One records]] to get you started.

== Individual items ==
These names need to be matched to individual units so they can be added to its page. '''If you can find out which units these people were in, and [https://mia2.typeform.com/to/dkhC4B send in your links] to have them added to the wiki.''' If you're working on someone's record, you can also edit the wiki to add a note saying so. Remove the name below once it's been added to a regiment or battalion page.

* [http://blogs.bl.uk/untoldlives/2017/11/testimony-from-the-trenches-personal-journeys-of-ww1.html blog post about Alfred Forbes Johnson]. His papers and photos are now British Library Add MS 89235. He served in the Artists Rifles (which battalion?) and Royal Garrison Artillery (which unit?).

* [http://ufdc.ufl.edu/wwi Diary of Albert Huet] in the French infantry. [http://www.crid1418.org/temoins/2016/03/12/huet-albert-1897-1977/ This biography] gives the regiments he served in.

* Petty Officer Hans Heinz Harmes-Emden [http://www.awm.gov.au/people/P3818/#collection-items Australian War Memorial - Anzac Connections - collection items]
** German navy: SMS Emden (1908)

* Bodleian Library, Oxford, [http://www.bodley.ox.ac.uk/dept/scwmss/wmss/online/blcas/kings-african-rifles.html MSS. Afr. s. 1715] (168A) (Box 10): papers of Brigadier M.S. Lush, who served in the Sudan Political Service, 1914-1945.

* Bodleian Library, Oxford, [http://www.bodley.ox.ac.uk/dept/scwmss/wmss/online/blcas/kings-african-rifles.html MSS. Afr. s. 1715] (103) (Box 5): papers of Sir Angus Gillan, who served in the Sudan Political Service and took part in the Darfur campaign in 1916.

* [https://archive.org/details/gogetem00will Go, get 'em! The true adventures of an American aviator of the Lafayette flying corps who was the only Yankee flyer fighting over General Pershing's boys of the Rainbow division in Lorraine, when they first went "over the top" by William A. Wellman] Joined a volunteer ambulance unit, then the French Foreign Legion and served as a pilot in the Lafayette Flying Corps. See [[Wikipedia:William_A._Wellman#World_War_I]] for more details.

* [https://archive.org/details/whenchenalsingsm00wyth When Chenal sings the Marseillaise : With the honors of war : Sister Julie by Wythe Williams] (American journalist in France. Not clear from internal evidence which units it covers.)

* [http://lettersfromww1.blogspot.com Letters home from Private Edward Ray Jackson] (Canadian)

* [http://haroldskillingslettersfromww1.blogspot.com Harold Skilling's Letters From World War One]
** Canadian Expeditionary Force
** Royal Flying Corps

* [http://morelettersfromww1.blogspot.com Lieutenant William Milton Skilling]
** Canadian Expeditionary Force
** [[Royal Artillery, British Army]]
** [[53rd Battalion, Royal Warwickshire Regiment, British Army]]

* Louis Barthas (ed. Edward M. Strauss), ''Poilu: The World War I Notebooks of Louis Barthas, Barrelmaker, 1914-1918'' (Yale University Press, 2014, ISBN 978-0300191592) is a translation of the diaries of French soldier Louis Barthas. Served in these regiments of the French Army (see [[Wikipedia:Louis Barthas]]):
** 280th
** 269th
** 248th

* [http://ww1journeys.org/paul-thuns/ Paul Thuns' War-Diary 1914-1918] (served in German army)

* [https://medium.com/@ri_science/letters-to-gwendoline-one-gallipoli-story-told-through-letters-home-9a3f434ec82e Letters to Gwendoline: One story of Gallipoli told through letters home in memory of Anzac Day] (58th Brigade, Royal Field Artillery)

* [https://www.archive.org/stream/englishwomanserg00sanduoft/englishwomanserg00sanduoft_djvu.txt An English Woman-Sergeant in the Serbian Army] by [[Wikipedia:Flora_Sandes|Flora Sandes]], 'the only British woman officially to serve as a soldier in World War I'.

* The [https://www.awm.gov.au/collection/PR88/165/ letters] of [[Wikipedia:Pearl_Corkhill|Sister Pearl Elizabeth Corkhill, AANS]] could shed light on many locations.

* FIELD HOSPITAL & FLYING COLUMN. Being the Journal of an English Nursing Sister in Belgium & Russia by Violetta Thurstan.

* Charlie, who wrote [http://www.peoplescollectionwales.co.uk/discover/query/Blanche%20Woonton these postcards to Blanche Woonton], served on the British hospital ship [[SS Asturias]].

* Where was [http://www.peoplescollectionwales.co.uk/discover/query/ww1%20letter%20Llewelyn%20Williams Llewelyn Williams] based? (Can't identify from internal evidence: more info needed).

* [//www.awm.gov.au/collection/PR03431/ Bayley, Francis Wilton (Private), 1896-1974]: Imperial Camel Corps (which battalion?)

* Ely, Dinsmore, 1894-1918. '[https://archive.org/details/dinsmoreelyonewh00elyd Diary letters of Dinsmore Ely], edited by his father, Dr. James O. Ely'. Library of Congress via Internet Archive. American pilot.

* [http://www.trentu.ca/admin/library/archives/ffowldswelcome.htm Nursing Sister Helen L. Fowlds]

* [http://www.iwm.org.uk/collections/item/object/1030019021 Private Papers of Lieutenant L H Riddell]
** pilot in [[Royal Naval Air Service, British]] and [[Royal Air Force, British]]
** prisoner of war in Germany

*DeWitt C. Ellinwood Jr. (ed.), ''Between Two Worlds: A Rajput Officer in the Indian Army, 1905–21. Based on the Diary of Amar Singh of Jaipur'' (University Press of America, 2005, ISBN 0-7618-3113-4). Which unit did Amar Singh serve in?

== Collections of items ==

* The [http://www.iwm.org.uk/collections/search Imperial War Museum catalogue] has details of personal papers, sound recordings, films and objects from the United Kingdom and former British Empire. Sound recordings include interviews with people who experienced the First World War. Many of these interviews can be heard on the site free of charge and reused for non-commercial purposes. The catalogue is searchable and is also indexed by unit.
* c 3000 videos from WWI at [http://www.europeanfilmgateway.eu/node/33/efg1914/multilingual:1/showOnly:video European Film Gateway's EFG1914 project]
* A list of [http://dh.tcd.ie/letters1916/diyhistory/collections/show/18 letters about the First World War on The Letters of 1916 project site]. You can also help transcribe letters at their site.

* A list of memoirs and diaries at [http://www.firstworldwar.com/diaries/index.htm firstworldwar.com]

* Some [http://www.westernfrontassociation.com/great-war-people/diaries.html diaries listed on the Western Front Association site]

* A massive list of [http://wwi.lib.byu.edu/index.php/Diaries,_Memorials,_Personal_Reminiscences 'Diaries, Memorials, Personal Reminiscences'] compiled by volunteers of the World War I Military History List (WWI-L). '''Pick a name, find out which unit they were with, and add them to the battalion/regiment page!'''

* [http://search.wellcomelibrary.org/iii/encore/search?formids=target&lang=eng&suite=def&reservedids=lang%2Csuite&submitmode=&submitname=&target=digramc&submit=Search Digitised Royal Army Medical Corps (RAMC) papers from the Wellcome Library]
: From their blog post '[http://blog.wellcomelibrary.org/2014/06/rediscovering-the-great-war/ (Re)Discovering the Great War]', 'The Wellcome Library has digitized over 130,000 pages of correspondence, personal and field diaries and reports, photographs and memoirs associated with the allied medical services during World War I. Drawn from material presented to the Royal Army Medical Corps Museum and Archive (now the Army Medical Services Museum Trust), the collection covers virtually every sphere of operations including the Balkan Front, the Dardanelles, East Africa, India, Italy, Malta, Mesopotamia and the Middle East, Russia, and South West Africa, as well as the Western and British Home fronts.'

* The Great War Archive contains [http://www.oucs.ox.ac.uk/ww1lit/db/results.php?CISOBOX1=memoir&CISOFIELD1=objecb&CISOOP1=exact&CISOROOT=%2Fgwa memoirs], [http://www.oucs.ox.ac.uk/ww1lit/db/results.php?CISOBOX1=letter&CISOFIELD1=objecb&CISOOP1=exact&CISOROOT=%2Fgwa letters] and [http://www.oucs.ox.ac.uk/ww1lit/db/results.php?CISOBOX1=diary&CISOFIELD1=objecb&CISOOP1=exact&CISOROOT=%2Fgwa diaries], each of which could be linked to an Allied battalion or regiment.

* An archive of transcribed war diary (Kriegstagebuch), letters and blogs includes a list of diaries from [http://www.war-diary.com/ Weltkrieg / The Great War]

* [http://www.wartimememoriesproject.com/greatwar/allied/ The Wartime Memories Project - The Great War 1914-1918 The Allied Army] contains many personal accounts, mostly second-hand stories related by family members.

* [http://library.leeds.ac.uk/special-collections-liddle-collection The Liddle Collection], Leeds University Library. Includes personal papers of over 4,000 people who experienced the First World War, and over 750 sound recordings and transcripts of interviews about experiences of the First World War.

* [http://www.kingscollections.org/catalogues/lhcma Liddell Hart Centre for Military Archives, King's College London] hold personal papers of senior British personnel.

* [http://transcribe.royalbcmuseum.bc.ca/collections/show/2 Transcribe project at the Royal British Columbia Museum] is a crowdsourced project to transcribe letters and diaries from their archives. The First World War collection includes narratives relating to several Canadian and British units.

* Sharon Ouditt, ''Women Writers of the First World War: An Annotated Bibliography'' (Routledge, 2014). ISBN 978-0415755498. Includes personal narratives of war experiences, and guides to archive collections.

=== Australian personal narratives ===
The Australian War Memorial's [http://www.awm.gov.au/people/profiles/#ANZACConnections Anzac Connections lists 188 (at the time of writing) 'Biographies including private records and diaries']

The State Library of NSW has a [http://ww1.sl.nsw.gov.au/explore/179/ collection of WWI diaries] and [http://ww1.sl.nsw.gov.au/explore/180 letters] online. Can you link the authors to their [[Australian battalions in World War I|battalion page]]?

The [http://diggersdiaries.org/ SLNSW diaries have been analysed and visualised] by Jaume Nualart Vilaplana as part of his PhD. You can explore them via the [http://diggersdiaries.org/reader.html topics Personal, War, Military life, Travelling and The accidental tourist].

A user list of [http://trove.nla.gov.au/list?id=36319 Great War diaries, letters, reminiscences] on Trove (not all diaries may be available online)

[https://www.historypin.org/en/first-world-war-centenary/memories-for-a-new-generation/her-noble-share/geo/-23.808737,145.433219,4/bounds/-52.964039,125.701774,13.492979,165.164664 State Library of Queensland HistoryPin collection for women in WWI]: 'Honouring the contribution of Queensland women during the First World War, both at the home front and the war front'.

[http://www.anzaclive.com.au/ Anzac Live] has 'interactive' posts based on letters and diaries from various men and women.

=== British and Irish personal narratives ===

* [http://gallipoli.rte.ie/people/eye-witnesses Eyewitness accounts from Irish soldiers and nurses involved with the Gallipoli campaign] from Ireland's National Public Service Broadcaster, RTÉ.

* [http://www.tcd.ie/library/fitasfiddles/ Fit as Fiddles and Hard as Nails] is a collection of Irish soldiers' letters, diaries and memoirs digitized by Trinity College Dublin.

* [http://www.librariesni.org.uk/LibrarymenofWW1/Pages/default.aspx The Library Men of WW1]: a collection of letters from 11 Belfast librarians who served in the British Army.

* [http://cymru1914.org/en/home Cymru 1914, The Welsh Experience of the First World War] includes some diaries, photographs, letters and memoirs

* [http://www.peoplescollectionwales.co.uk/users/2357 Cymry'r Rhyfel Mawr / Welsh Voices of the Great War] on People's Collection Wales

* [http://www.cardiff.ac.uk/share/research/projectreports/welshvoices/ Welsh Voices of the Great War Online]

* [http://www.qdg.org.uk/diaries.php Personal Diaries and letters of Officers and Other Ranks from the 1st The Queen’s Dragoon Guards]

* [http://www.herefordshirehistory.org.uk/archive/herefordshire-in-the-great-war Herefordshire in the Great War]

* {{Cite TNA|http://discovery.nationalarchives.gov.uk/details/r/C3852|CAB 45}}, official historian's papers, includes personal diaries and letters that were used to write the British Official History.

* [http://worldwar1veterans.blogspot.co.uk/p/veteran-index.html World War 1 Veterans 1914-1918 blog]: a collection of interviews with veterans conducted by Paul Nixon in the 1980s.

=== Canadian personal narratives ===
If you're interested in finding records for Canadian battalions, the [http://www.canadiangreatwarproject.com/WarDiaries/diarySearch.asp Canadian Great War project has a form to search for War Diaries by unit].

[http://www.collectionscanada.gc.ca/first-world-war/interviews/index-e.html Oral Histories of the First World War: Veterans 1914-1918] based on the CBC's radio broadcast In Flanders Fields, a series of one-on-one interviews with veterans of the Canadian Expeditionary Force, which aired from November 11, 1964 to March 7, 1965. The website is organized into seven themes: Second Ypres, Vimy Ridge, War in the Air, The Somme, Trench Warfare, Passchendaele, Perspectives on War. Contains images, interview audio and transcripts.

=== New Zealand personal narratives ===
[http://www.nzmr.org/troopers.htm Personal Histories of the New Zealand Mounted Rifles] (see also the [http://www.nzmr.org/sitemap.htm sitemap]).

[http://natlib.govt.nz/items?utf8=%E2%9C%93&text=WW100+digitisation+project Diaries listed in the National Library of New Zealand's WW100 digitisation project]

[https://natlib.govt.nz/blog/posts/off-at-last-the-goodbye-would-have-been-too-awful Off at last the goodbye would have been too awful] is a blog post featuring diaries discovered during digitisation at the Alexander Turnbull Library.

[https://natlib.govt.nz/blog/posts/it-s-just-hell-here-now "It's just hell here now"] is an Anzac Day post from the Alexander Turnbull Library that shows what can be learnt from individual diaries.

[http://www.sincewritingyoulast.co.nz/ Since writing you last] is a collection of digitized letters from Invercargill City Libraries and Archives.

=== American personal narratives ===
[http://www.loc.gov/vets/ Veterans History Project]

=== Indian personal narratives ===

* David Omissi (ed.), ''Indian Voices of the Great War: Soldiers' Letters, 1914-1918'', (Palgrave Macmillan, 1999). ISBN 0333751450. Compilation of Indian soldiers' letters.
* [http://searcharchives.bl.uk/IAMS_VU2:IAMS040-000340715 British Library IOR/L/MIL/5/825-828]: Reports of the Censor of Indian Mails in France. These reports contain many extracts of Indian soldiers' letters. Page scans are available through the "Browse this collection" link on the catalogue record page.
* There are lots of references to individual soldiers and Indian Army units mentioned in [http://www.sikhiwiki.org/index.php/Sikhs_in_World_War_1 Sikhs in World War 1 on SihkiWiki] - can you find sources for them and link them to the appropriate [[Indian units in World War I|Indian unit]]?

=== French personal narratives ===

* [http://www.loiret14-18.fr/ La centenaire de la Guerre 14-18 dans le Loiret] is a French site that contains lots of narratives, media and other resources.

== Related Media ==

Images and recordings that aren't personal narratives but could be matched to units or used on other pages.

* There's a stash of [http://hdl.handle.net/10462/comp/2948 fantastic photos in The "Cambrian" Album] from the [http://hdl.handle.net/10462/eadarc/5855 OM77-14 2nd Light Horse Association Records 1914-1920] at the State Library of Queensland. The album includes photos from other units - can you help by adding images and links to unit pages?

* India and the Great War has some [http://indiaww1.in/memory.aspx Stories and Memories] that might provide some clues

* [http://collections.tepapa.govt.nz/Object/397412 New Zealand's Roll of Honour 1915 The Auckland Weekly News Illustrated List] with the names and photos of 'New Zealand Officers and Men killed or wounded in action in Turkey, The Dardanelles & Gallipoli in 1915'
* Items digitised by Te Papa include the [http://collections.tepapa.govt.nz/Object/1366687 Photograph album of Major J.M. Rose, 1st NZEF] - which units are depicted in his photographs?
* The US National Archives has some large collections of WW1 photos, many of which mention unit names in the catalogue descriptions:
** [https://catalog.archives.gov/id/533461 American Unofficial Collection of World War I Photographs, 1917 - 1918]
** [https://catalog.archives.gov/id/533104 British Photographs of World War I, 1914 - 1918]
* Royal Armouries online collections includes [https://collections.royalarmouries.org/first-world-war Arms of the First World War], with photos and catalogue descriptions of weapons.
* [http://www.iwm.org.uk/collections/listing/object-205015340 Imperial War Museum: A H T Andrew's photos]: a large collection of photos taken while he was a medical officer with [[29th Division, British Army]] at Gallipoli, but also showing many other units.

* Berliner Lautarchiv British & Commonwealth recordings: sound recordings of British prisoners of war in Germany. A selection of 66 of these recordings can be heard at [http://sounds.bl.uk/Accents-and-dialects/Berliner-Lautarchiv-British-and-Commonwealth-recordings British Library Sound Archive website]. These need matching to units.

* [http://www.illustratedfirstworldwar.com/ The Illustrated First World War] website contains a large collection of photos from the archives of the Illustrated London News. Free to view but all rights reserved.

* The Library of Congress has a collection of [http://www.loc.gov/pictures/related/?va=exact&st=gallery&q=World+War%2C+1914-1918--Recruiting+%26+enlistment--United+States.&fi=subject&sg=true&op=EQUAL&loclr=blogpic American recruiting posters], and hundreds of [http://www.loc.gov/rr/print/coll/womphotoj/kirtlandintro.html?loclr=blogpic photos taken by Helen Johns Kirtland], including the Italian front.

* The [http://www.bbc.co.uk/arts/yourpaintings/ Your Paintings site] has artworks including Ellis Silas [http://www.bbc.co.uk/arts/yourpaintings/paintings/the-last-roll-call-6236 The Last Roll Call] that could be linked to specific units through their artists.

== Research in progress ==
Add notes or links here for diaries you need help researching, missing links from the sites above, etc.

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1/5th Battalion, Lincolnshire Regiment, British Army

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| country = United Kingdom
| service = British Army
| branch = Territorial Force (British Army)
| type = Infantry
| specific_type = Infantry battalion
| size_at_full_strength = 1,000
| unit_info_ref = {{Cite James|page = 54}}
| unit_name1 = 5th Battalion Lincolnshire Regiment
| unit_name1_start_date = 1/4/1908
| unit_name1_ref = Sandall, ''5th Battalion Lincolnshire Regiment'', [http://www.5thlincs.investigationsofadog.co.uk/introductory.html#p1 page 1].
| unit_name1_end_date = 1915
| unit_name1_reason_for_change = Renumbering of territorial battalions.
| unit_name2 = 1/5th Battalion Lincolnshire Regiment
| unit_name2_ref = {{Cite James|page = 54}}
| unit_name2_start_date = 1915
| unit_name2_end_date = 30/6/1919
| created = Formed from 1st and 3rd Volunteer Battalions [[Lincolnshire Regiment, British Army|Lincolnshire Regiment]] at creation of Territorial Force.
| start_ref = Sandall, ''5th Battalion Lincolnshire Regiment'', [http://www.5thlincs.investigationsofadog.co.uk/introductory.html#p1 pages 1-2].
| start_date = 1/4/1908
| disbanded = Disembodied at end of war service.
| end_ref = Sandall, ''5th Battalion Lincolnshire Regiment'', [http://www.5thlincs.investigationsofadog.co.uk/end.html#p196 page 196].
| end_date = 25/7/1919
| alternate_unit_names = 5th Lincolns
}}
{{Infobox command structure
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| command_end_date = 25/7/1919
| parent = Lincolnshire Regiment, British Army
| relationship_type = Administrative
| ref = Sandall, ''5th Battalion Lincolnshire Regiment'', pages [http://www.5thlincs.investigationsofadog.co.uk/introductory.html#p1 1], [http://www.5thlincs.investigationsofadog.co.uk/end.html#p196 196].
}}
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| command_end_date = 25/7/1919
| parent = 138th Infantry Brigade, British Army
| parent_level = {{BritishBrigade}}
| relationship_type = Tactical
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}}
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|date_left_ToW = 8/1/1916
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}}



== Personal narratives ==


Several of these narratives are referenced and put into context by Chris Bailey and Steve Bramley, ''The 1/5th Battalion Lincolnshire Regiment in the Great War'' (Ironmariner Publishing, 2015). ISBN 978-0993169908. This book also includes short extracts from many other personal narratives in private collections.

=== Oscar Dixon ===

Leeds University, Liddle Collection: [http://library.leeds.ac.uk/special-collections-explore/28694/ LIDDLE/WW1/GS/0462] includes a diary (26 Feb 1915-2 July 1915) and other papers of Captain [https://livesofthefirstworldwar.org/lifestory/1648136 Oscar Dixon]. According to the catalogue description and the battalion's [http://www.5thlincs.investigationsofadog.co.uk/people-index.html#Dixon,%20Oscar,%20Capt official history], he was machine gun officer of this battalion in 1915 and later commander of A Company. His papers include a report on a trench raid on the night of 18/19 October 1916, which may be a copy of the one in the {{Cite war diary|October 1916}} Appendix ([https://www.flickr.com/photos/wenham5thlincs/5758558130/in/album-72157626678923811/ first page], [https://www.flickr.com/photos/wenham5thlincs/5758023487/in/album-72157626678923811/ second page]).

=== Frederick Hunt ===

[http://www.iwm.org.uk/collections/item/object/1030000537 Imperial War Museum: Documents.251] is a typescript memoir by [https://livesofthefirstworldwar.org/lifestory/2566647 Frederick Hunt], including his service in these units:

* [[1/5th Battalion, Lincolnshire Regiment, British Army]] (August 1915 to August 1916; service number 3150)
* [[203rd Machine Gun Company, British Army]] (August 1916 to January 1918; service number 67672; promoted from private to sergeant)
* [[Machine Gun Training Centre, British Army]] (instructor from January 1918 to end of war)

He also spent time in several other training camps and hospitals in the UK. He enlisted in November 1914 and may have spent time training with [[2/5th Battalion, Lincolnshire Regiment, British Army]] but this is not made clear in the catalogue description.

=== John Cramond Urquhart ===

[http://library.leeds.ac.uk/special-collections-explore/29875/ Leeds University, Liddle Collection: LIDDLE/WW1/GS/1646] is a collection of papers of Captain John Cramond Urquhart, who served in Great Britain, Ireland and France with [[2/5th Battalion, Lincolnshire Regiment, British Army]] from 1915 and transferred to [[1/5th Battalion, Lincolnshire Regiment, British Army]] on 9 August 1918.<ref>Sandall, ''5th Battalion Lincolnshire Regiment'', [http://www.5thlincs.investigationsofadog.co.uk/beginning-great-advance.html#pers517 page 169].</ref>

Urquhart's papers include a diary covering 1916 to 1918, maps, photos, Christmas cards, his pay book and commission, and official operation orders.

=== Arthur Ward ===

[http://library.leeds.ac.uk/special-collections-explore/407123/ Leeds University, Liddle Collection: LIDDLE/WW1/WF/REC/02/W4] is a typescript autobiography of Private [https://livesofthefirstworldwar.org/lifestory/4611180 Arthur Ward] (service numbers 2340 and 240441), who enlisted in this battalion in September 1914, served in most of its major actions, and was awarded the Military Medal in 1917.

=== William Wenham ===

Lance Corporal [https://livesofthefirstworldwar.org/lifestory/4699116 William Albert Wenham] (service numbers 2683 and 240601) sent letters home relating to his capture while serving with this battalion and subsequent imprisonment in Germany. The [https://www.flickr.com/photos/wenham5thlincs/864127727/ form notifying his family] that he was missing gives his battalion as 1/5th Lincolnshire Regiment, and the battalion's war diary mentions him by name ({{Cite war diary|6/12/1916}}).

*[http://beta.fromthepage.com/collection/show?collection_id=2 Images and transcripts at From the Page]
*[https://www.flickr.com/photos/wenham5thlincs/sets/72157623359100532/ Images on Flickr]
*Images and transcripts are also availabe at the Great War Archive and Europeana.

== Related media ==


[[File:5th Lincolnshire football team.jpg|200px|thumb|none|Battalion football team, 22 October 1914]]

*[http://webarchive.nationalarchives.gov.uk/+/http://yourarchives.nationalarchives.gov.uk/index.php?title=File:D_Co_5th_Lincs.jpg photo of pre-war D Company]
* [https://www.flickr.com/photos/wenham5thlincs/432452558/in/set-72157623234521977 photo of Wiliam Wenham] probably taken while serving with this battalion
* [https://www.flickr.com/photos/lincsranger64/5313684611/ group photo of soldiers from this battalion in Gainsborough, 1914]
* [http://www.thelincolnshireregiment.org/alfredcooper.shtml Royal Anglian and Lincolnshire Regimental Association website]: scans of the pay book of Private [https://livesofthefirstworldwar.org/lifestory/945194 Alfred W. Cooper]. The pay book states that he served in C Company, 1/5th Battalion Lincolnshire Regiment.

== Official sources ==

=== {{WarDiaryHeading}} ===


* {{War diary TNA|http://discovery.nationalarchives.gov.uk/details/r/C7354514|WO 95/2691/2|01/03/1915|30/06/1919}}

=== Unit histories ===

* {{Cite book| publisher = Blackwell| last = Sandall| first = Thomas Edward| title = A History of the 5th Batt. the Lincolnshire Regiment| location = Oxford| date = 1922}}
** [http://www.sandall.drgavinrobinson.uk/ Digital edition] with additional [http://www.sandall.drgavinrobinson.uk/people-index.html index of people] and [http://www.sandall.drgavinrobinson.uk/place-index.html index and map of places].

=== Other official documents ===


* Gallantry medal citations, Lincolnshire Regiment Collection, Lincolnshire Archives (catalogue reference unknown).

== Other sources ==


* [https://livesofthefirstworldwar.org/community/239 IWM Lives community: 1/5 Battalion Lincolnshire Regiment]
* {{Cite book| publisher = Ironmariner Publishing| last1 = Bailey| first1 = Chris| last2 = Bramley| first2 = Steve| title = The 1/5th Battalion Lincolnshire Regiment in the Great War| location = Grimsby, British Army| date = 2015}} Includes many previously unpublished photos of members of the battalion.
* [http://bartononhumberatwar.blogspot.co.uk/ Barton upon Humber: a Lincolnshire Town in the Great War 1914-1918]. This blog has lots of material on this battalion. E Company was based and recruited in Barton before the war.<ref>Bailey and Bramley, ''1/5th Battalion Lincolnshire Regiment'', page 33.</ref>



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== References ==

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Lists of personal diaries, letters, memoirs

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The letters, diaries, memoirs etc listed below could be linked to specific military units, but each name needs to be researched to find out exactly which unit they were in at the time. '''Can you help? Pick a name or document below, and try to find their military records to show which battalion they were in.'''

Here are some resources on [[researching World War One records]] to get you started.

== Individual items ==
These names need to be matched to individual units so they can be added to its page. '''If you can find out which units these people were in, and [https://mia2.typeform.com/to/dkhC4B send in your links] to have them added to the wiki.''' If you're working on someone's record, you can also edit the wiki to add a note saying so. Remove the name below once it's been added to a regiment or battalion page.

* [http://blogs.bl.uk/untoldlives/2017/11/testimony-from-the-trenches-personal-journeys-of-ww1.html blog post about Alfred Forbes Johnson]. His papers and photos are now British Library Add MS 89235. He served in the Artists Rifles (which battalion?) and Royal Garrison Artillery (which unit?).

* [http://ufdc.ufl.edu/wwi Diary of Albert Huet] in the French infantry. [http://www.crid1418.org/temoins/2016/03/12/huet-albert-1897-1977/ This biography] gives the regiments he served in.

* Petty Officer Hans Heinz Harmes-Emden [http://www.awm.gov.au/people/P3818/#collection-items Australian War Memorial - Anzac Connections - collection items]
** German navy: SMS Emden (1908)

* Private David Watson Izatt [http://www.awm.gov.au/people/P10675843/#collection-items Australian War Memorial - Anzac Connections - collection items]
** 10 Casualty Clearing Station (British?)
** 15 Casualty Clearing Station (British?)
** [[No 2 Australian General Hospital]]
** [[No 1 Casualty Clearing Station, Australian Imperial Force (AIF)]]

* Sergeant John Robert Cowan Kelly [http://www.awm.gov.au/people/P10677284/#collection-items Australian War Memorial - Anzac Connections - collection items]
** [[30th Battalion, Australian Imperial Force (AIF)]]
** [[Elope Force, British Army]] in Russia

* Major Percy Lay [http://www.awm.gov.au/people/P10675871/#collection-items Australian War Memorial - Anzac Connections - collection items]
** [[8th Battalion, Australian Imperial Force (AIF)]]
** [[Dunster Force, British Army]] in Persia

* Bodleian Library, Oxford, [http://www.bodley.ox.ac.uk/dept/scwmss/wmss/online/blcas/kings-african-rifles.html MSS. Afr. s. 1715] (168A) (Box 10): papers of Brigadier M.S. Lush, who served in the Sudan Political Service, 1914-1945.

* Bodleian Library, Oxford, [http://www.bodley.ox.ac.uk/dept/scwmss/wmss/online/blcas/kings-african-rifles.html MSS. Afr. s. 1715] (103) (Box 5): papers of Sir Angus Gillan, who served in the Sudan Political Service and took part in the Darfur campaign in 1916.

* [https://archive.org/details/gogetem00will Go, get 'em! The true adventures of an American aviator of the Lafayette flying corps who was the only Yankee flyer fighting over General Pershing's boys of the Rainbow division in Lorraine, when they first went "over the top" by William A. Wellman] Joined a volunteer ambulance unit, then the French Foreign Legion and served as a pilot in the Lafayette Flying Corps. See [[Wikipedia:William_A._Wellman#World_War_I]] for more details.

* [https://archive.org/details/whenchenalsingsm00wyth When Chenal sings the Marseillaise : With the honors of war : Sister Julie by Wythe Williams] (American journalist in France. Not clear from internal evidence which units it covers.)

* [http://lettersfromww1.blogspot.com Letters home from Private Edward Ray Jackson] (Canadian)

* [http://haroldskillingslettersfromww1.blogspot.com Harold Skilling's Letters From World War One]
** Canadian Expeditionary Force
** Royal Flying Corps

* [http://morelettersfromww1.blogspot.com Lieutenant William Milton Skilling]
** Canadian Expeditionary Force
** [[Royal Artillery, British Army]]
** [[53rd Battalion, Royal Warwickshire Regiment, British Army]]

* Louis Barthas (ed. Edward M. Strauss), ''Poilu: The World War I Notebooks of Louis Barthas, Barrelmaker, 1914-1918'' (Yale University Press, 2014, ISBN 978-0300191592) is a translation of the diaries of French soldier Louis Barthas. Served in these regiments of the French Army (see [[Wikipedia:Louis Barthas]]):
** 280th
** 269th
** 248th

* [http://ww1journeys.org/paul-thuns/ Paul Thuns' War-Diary 1914-1918] (served in German army)

* [https://medium.com/@ri_science/letters-to-gwendoline-one-gallipoli-story-told-through-letters-home-9a3f434ec82e Letters to Gwendoline: One story of Gallipoli told through letters home in memory of Anzac Day] (58th Brigade, Royal Field Artillery)

* [https://www.archive.org/stream/englishwomanserg00sanduoft/englishwomanserg00sanduoft_djvu.txt An English Woman-Sergeant in the Serbian Army] by [[Wikipedia:Flora_Sandes|Flora Sandes]], 'the only British woman officially to serve as a soldier in World War I'.

* The [https://www.awm.gov.au/collection/PR88/165/ letters] of [[Wikipedia:Pearl_Corkhill|Sister Pearl Elizabeth Corkhill, AANS]] could shed light on many locations.

* FIELD HOSPITAL & FLYING COLUMN. Being the Journal of an English Nursing Sister in Belgium & Russia by Violetta Thurstan.

* Charlie, who wrote [http://www.peoplescollectionwales.co.uk/discover/query/Blanche%20Woonton these postcards to Blanche Woonton], served on the British hospital ship [[SS Asturias]].

* Where was [http://www.peoplescollectionwales.co.uk/discover/query/ww1%20letter%20Llewelyn%20Williams Llewelyn Williams] based? (Can't identify from internal evidence: more info needed).

* [//www.awm.gov.au/collection/PR03431/ Bayley, Francis Wilton (Private), 1896-1974]: Imperial Camel Corps (which battalion?)

* Ely, Dinsmore, 1894-1918. '[https://archive.org/details/dinsmoreelyonewh00elyd Diary letters of Dinsmore Ely], edited by his father, Dr. James O. Ely'. Library of Congress via Internet Archive. American pilot.

* [http://www.trentu.ca/admin/library/archives/ffowldswelcome.htm Nursing Sister Helen L. Fowlds]

* [http://www.iwm.org.uk/collections/item/object/1030019021 Private Papers of Lieutenant L H Riddell]
** pilot in [[Royal Naval Air Service, British]] and [[Royal Air Force, British]]
** prisoner of war in Germany

*DeWitt C. Ellinwood Jr. (ed.), ''Between Two Worlds: A Rajput Officer in the Indian Army, 1905–21. Based on the Diary of Amar Singh of Jaipur'' (University Press of America, 2005, ISBN 0-7618-3113-4). Which unit did Amar Singh serve in?

== Collections of items ==

* The [http://www.iwm.org.uk/collections/search Imperial War Museum catalogue] has details of personal papers, sound recordings, films and objects from the United Kingdom and former British Empire. Sound recordings include interviews with people who experienced the First World War. Many of these interviews can be heard on the site free of charge and reused for non-commercial purposes. The catalogue is searchable and is also indexed by unit.
* c 3000 videos from WWI at [http://www.europeanfilmgateway.eu/node/33/efg1914/multilingual:1/showOnly:video European Film Gateway's EFG1914 project]
* A list of [http://dh.tcd.ie/letters1916/diyhistory/collections/show/18 letters about the First World War on The Letters of 1916 project site]. You can also help transcribe letters at their site.

* A list of memoirs and diaries at [http://www.firstworldwar.com/diaries/index.htm firstworldwar.com]

* Some [http://www.westernfrontassociation.com/great-war-people/diaries.html diaries listed on the Western Front Association site]

* A massive list of [http://wwi.lib.byu.edu/index.php/Diaries,_Memorials,_Personal_Reminiscences 'Diaries, Memorials, Personal Reminiscences'] compiled by volunteers of the World War I Military History List (WWI-L). '''Pick a name, find out which unit they were with, and add them to the battalion/regiment page!'''

* [http://search.wellcomelibrary.org/iii/encore/search?formids=target&lang=eng&suite=def&reservedids=lang%2Csuite&submitmode=&submitname=&target=digramc&submit=Search Digitised Royal Army Medical Corps (RAMC) papers from the Wellcome Library]
: From their blog post '[http://blog.wellcomelibrary.org/2014/06/rediscovering-the-great-war/ (Re)Discovering the Great War]', 'The Wellcome Library has digitized over 130,000 pages of correspondence, personal and field diaries and reports, photographs and memoirs associated with the allied medical services during World War I. Drawn from material presented to the Royal Army Medical Corps Museum and Archive (now the Army Medical Services Museum Trust), the collection covers virtually every sphere of operations including the Balkan Front, the Dardanelles, East Africa, India, Italy, Malta, Mesopotamia and the Middle East, Russia, and South West Africa, as well as the Western and British Home fronts.'

* The Great War Archive contains [http://www.oucs.ox.ac.uk/ww1lit/db/results.php?CISOBOX1=memoir&CISOFIELD1=objecb&CISOOP1=exact&CISOROOT=%2Fgwa memoirs], [http://www.oucs.ox.ac.uk/ww1lit/db/results.php?CISOBOX1=letter&CISOFIELD1=objecb&CISOOP1=exact&CISOROOT=%2Fgwa letters] and [http://www.oucs.ox.ac.uk/ww1lit/db/results.php?CISOBOX1=diary&CISOFIELD1=objecb&CISOOP1=exact&CISOROOT=%2Fgwa diaries], each of which could be linked to an Allied battalion or regiment.

* An archive of transcribed war diary (Kriegstagebuch), letters and blogs includes a list of diaries from [http://www.war-diary.com/ Weltkrieg / The Great War]

* [http://www.wartimememoriesproject.com/greatwar/allied/ The Wartime Memories Project - The Great War 1914-1918 The Allied Army] contains many personal accounts, mostly second-hand stories related by family members.

* [http://library.leeds.ac.uk/special-collections-liddle-collection The Liddle Collection], Leeds University Library. Includes personal papers of over 4,000 people who experienced the First World War, and over 750 sound recordings and transcripts of interviews about experiences of the First World War.

* [http://www.kingscollections.org/catalogues/lhcma Liddell Hart Centre for Military Archives, King's College London] hold personal papers of senior British personnel.

* [http://transcribe.royalbcmuseum.bc.ca/collections/show/2 Transcribe project at the Royal British Columbia Museum] is a crowdsourced project to transcribe letters and diaries from their archives. The First World War collection includes narratives relating to several Canadian and British units.

* Sharon Ouditt, ''Women Writers of the First World War: An Annotated Bibliography'' (Routledge, 2014). ISBN 978-0415755498. Includes personal narratives of war experiences, and guides to archive collections.

=== Australian personal narratives ===
The Australian War Memorial's [http://www.awm.gov.au/people/profiles/#ANZACConnections Anzac Connections lists 188 (at the time of writing) 'Biographies including private records and diaries']

The State Library of NSW has a [http://ww1.sl.nsw.gov.au/explore/179/ collection of WWI diaries] and [http://ww1.sl.nsw.gov.au/explore/180 letters] online. Can you link the authors to their [[Australian battalions in World War I|battalion page]]?

The [http://diggersdiaries.org/ SLNSW diaries have been analysed and visualised] by Jaume Nualart Vilaplana as part of his PhD. You can explore them via the [http://diggersdiaries.org/reader.html topics Personal, War, Military life, Travelling and The accidental tourist].

A user list of [http://trove.nla.gov.au/list?id=36319 Great War diaries, letters, reminiscences] on Trove (not all diaries may be available online)

[https://www.historypin.org/en/first-world-war-centenary/memories-for-a-new-generation/her-noble-share/geo/-23.808737,145.433219,4/bounds/-52.964039,125.701774,13.492979,165.164664 State Library of Queensland HistoryPin collection for women in WWI]: 'Honouring the contribution of Queensland women during the First World War, both at the home front and the war front'.

[http://www.anzaclive.com.au/ Anzac Live] has 'interactive' posts based on letters and diaries from various men and women.

=== British and Irish personal narratives ===

* [http://gallipoli.rte.ie/people/eye-witnesses Eyewitness accounts from Irish soldiers and nurses involved with the Gallipoli campaign] from Ireland's National Public Service Broadcaster, RTÉ.

* [http://www.tcd.ie/library/fitasfiddles/ Fit as Fiddles and Hard as Nails] is a collection of Irish soldiers' letters, diaries and memoirs digitized by Trinity College Dublin.

* [http://www.librariesni.org.uk/LibrarymenofWW1/Pages/default.aspx The Library Men of WW1]: a collection of letters from 11 Belfast librarians who served in the British Army.

* [http://cymru1914.org/en/home Cymru 1914, The Welsh Experience of the First World War] includes some diaries, photographs, letters and memoirs

* [http://www.peoplescollectionwales.co.uk/users/2357 Cymry'r Rhyfel Mawr / Welsh Voices of the Great War] on People's Collection Wales

* [http://www.cardiff.ac.uk/share/research/projectreports/welshvoices/ Welsh Voices of the Great War Online]

* [http://www.qdg.org.uk/diaries.php Personal Diaries and letters of Officers and Other Ranks from the 1st The Queen’s Dragoon Guards]

* [http://www.herefordshirehistory.org.uk/archive/herefordshire-in-the-great-war Herefordshire in the Great War]

* {{Cite TNA|http://discovery.nationalarchives.gov.uk/details/r/C3852|CAB 45}}, official historian's papers, includes personal diaries and letters that were used to write the British Official History.

* [http://worldwar1veterans.blogspot.co.uk/p/veteran-index.html World War 1 Veterans 1914-1918 blog]: a collection of interviews with veterans conducted by Paul Nixon in the 1980s.

=== Canadian personal narratives ===
If you're interested in finding records for Canadian battalions, the [http://www.canadiangreatwarproject.com/WarDiaries/diarySearch.asp Canadian Great War project has a form to search for War Diaries by unit].

[http://www.collectionscanada.gc.ca/first-world-war/interviews/index-e.html Oral Histories of the First World War: Veterans 1914-1918] based on the CBC's radio broadcast In Flanders Fields, a series of one-on-one interviews with veterans of the Canadian Expeditionary Force, which aired from November 11, 1964 to March 7, 1965. The website is organized into seven themes: Second Ypres, Vimy Ridge, War in the Air, The Somme, Trench Warfare, Passchendaele, Perspectives on War. Contains images, interview audio and transcripts.

=== New Zealand personal narratives ===
[http://www.nzmr.org/troopers.htm Personal Histories of the New Zealand Mounted Rifles] (see also the [http://www.nzmr.org/sitemap.htm sitemap]).

[http://natlib.govt.nz/items?utf8=%E2%9C%93&text=WW100+digitisation+project Diaries listed in the National Library of New Zealand's WW100 digitisation project]

[https://natlib.govt.nz/blog/posts/off-at-last-the-goodbye-would-have-been-too-awful Off at last the goodbye would have been too awful] is a blog post featuring diaries discovered during digitisation at the Alexander Turnbull Library.

[https://natlib.govt.nz/blog/posts/it-s-just-hell-here-now "It's just hell here now"] is an Anzac Day post from the Alexander Turnbull Library that shows what can be learnt from individual diaries.

[http://www.sincewritingyoulast.co.nz/ Since writing you last] is a collection of digitized letters from Invercargill City Libraries and Archives.

=== American personal narratives ===
[http://www.loc.gov/vets/ Veterans History Project]

=== Indian personal narratives ===

* David Omissi (ed.), ''Indian Voices of the Great War: Soldiers' Letters, 1914-1918'', (Palgrave Macmillan, 1999). ISBN 0333751450. Compilation of Indian soldiers' letters.
* [http://searcharchives.bl.uk/IAMS_VU2:IAMS040-000340715 British Library IOR/L/MIL/5/825-828]: Reports of the Censor of Indian Mails in France. These reports contain many extracts of Indian soldiers' letters. Page scans are available through the "Browse this collection" link on the catalogue record page.
* There are lots of references to individual soldiers and Indian Army units mentioned in [http://www.sikhiwiki.org/index.php/Sikhs_in_World_War_1 Sikhs in World War 1 on SihkiWiki] - can you find sources for them and link them to the appropriate [[Indian units in World War I|Indian unit]]?

=== French personal narratives ===

* [http://www.loiret14-18.fr/ La centenaire de la Guerre 14-18 dans le Loiret] is a French site that contains lots of narratives, media and other resources.

== Related Media ==

Images and recordings that aren't personal narratives but could be matched to units or used on other pages.

* There's a stash of [http://hdl.handle.net/10462/comp/2948 fantastic photos in The "Cambrian" Album] from the [http://hdl.handle.net/10462/eadarc/5855 OM77-14 2nd Light Horse Association Records 1914-1920] at the State Library of Queensland. The album includes photos from other units - can you help by adding images and links to unit pages?

* India and the Great War has some [http://indiaww1.in/memory.aspx Stories and Memories] that might provide some clues

* [http://collections.tepapa.govt.nz/Object/397412 New Zealand's Roll of Honour 1915 The Auckland Weekly News Illustrated List] with the names and photos of 'New Zealand Officers and Men killed or wounded in action in Turkey, The Dardanelles & Gallipoli in 1915'
* Items digitised by Te Papa include the [http://collections.tepapa.govt.nz/Object/1366687 Photograph album of Major J.M. Rose, 1st NZEF] - which units are depicted in his photographs?
* The US National Archives has some large collections of WW1 photos, many of which mention unit names in the catalogue descriptions:
** [https://catalog.archives.gov/id/533461 American Unofficial Collection of World War I Photographs, 1917 - 1918]
** [https://catalog.archives.gov/id/533104 British Photographs of World War I, 1914 - 1918]
* Royal Armouries online collections includes [https://collections.royalarmouries.org/first-world-war Arms of the First World War], with photos and catalogue descriptions of weapons.
* [http://www.iwm.org.uk/collections/listing/object-205015340 Imperial War Museum: A H T Andrew's photos]: a large collection of photos taken while he was a medical officer with [[29th Division, British Army]] at Gallipoli, but also showing many other units.

* Berliner Lautarchiv British & Commonwealth recordings: sound recordings of British prisoners of war in Germany. A selection of 66 of these recordings can be heard at [http://sounds.bl.uk/Accents-and-dialects/Berliner-Lautarchiv-British-and-Commonwealth-recordings British Library Sound Archive website]. These need matching to units.

* [http://www.illustratedfirstworldwar.com/ The Illustrated First World War] website contains a large collection of photos from the archives of the Illustrated London News. Free to view but all rights reserved.

* The Library of Congress has a collection of [http://www.loc.gov/pictures/related/?va=exact&st=gallery&q=World+War%2C+1914-1918--Recruiting+%26+enlistment--United+States.&fi=subject&sg=true&op=EQUAL&loclr=blogpic American recruiting posters], and hundreds of [http://www.loc.gov/rr/print/coll/womphotoj/kirtlandintro.html?loclr=blogpic photos taken by Helen Johns Kirtland], including the Italian front.

* The [http://www.bbc.co.uk/arts/yourpaintings/ Your Paintings site] has artworks including Ellis Silas [http://www.bbc.co.uk/arts/yourpaintings/paintings/the-last-roll-call-6236 The Last Roll Call] that could be linked to specific units through their artists.

== Research in progress ==
Add notes or links here for diaries you need help researching, missing links from the sites above, etc.

[[Category:Sources]]
[[Category:To do]]

Divisional Medical Services, 6th Division, British Army

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== Personal narratives ==


=== Neil Cantlie ===

[https://wellcomelibrary.org/item/b19604592#?m=0&cv=5&z=-0.9867%2C-0.2215%2C2.9008%2C1.3155&c=0&s=0 Royal Army Medical Corps Archives, RAMC/242]: diary of Captain Neil Cantlie, RAMC, covering 6th Division at the battle of the Somme. Digitised by the Wellcome Library.

== Related media ==


== Official Sources ==

=== {{War diary heading}} ===


* {{War diary TNA|http://discovery.nationalarchives.gov.uk/details/r/C4554743|WO 95/1592|1/8/1914|31/12/1916|Assistant Director Medical Services}}
* {{War diary TNA|http://discovery.nationalarchives.gov.uk/details/r/C4554744|WO 95/1593|1/1/1917|30/9/1919|Assistant Director Medical Services}}

=== Unit histories ===

=== Other official documents ===


== Other sources ==




[[Category:Units with personal narratives]]
[[Category:British medical units]]
[[Category:British divisional troops]]

== References ==

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1st Battalion, 166th Infantry Regiment, US

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== Personal narratives ==


=== Austin Dewitt Boyd ===

[http://www.markboyd.info/adboyd/index.html Letters of Austin Dewitt Boyd], who served in D Company.

== Related media ==


== Official sources ==

=== {{War diary heading}} ===


{{War diary none continental}}

=== Unit histories ===

=== Other official documents ===


== Other sources ==


* [http://www.markboyd.info/MarionsOwn/ Marion's Own]: Mark Boyd's website about D Company, 1st Battalion, 166th Infantry Regiment.



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[[Category:Units with personal narratives]]
[[Category:All US Army units]]
[[Category:US infantry battalions]]

== References ==

<references />

138th Infantry Brigade, British Army

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== Personal narratives ==


=== John Henry Turner ===

John Henry Turner came from Burslem, Staffordshire, and joined the [[Royal Engineers, British Army|Royal Engineers]] in 1914. He served in the signal section of 138th Infantry Brigade.

[http://www.archives.staffordshire.gov.uk/CalmView/Record.aspx?src=CalmView.Catalog&id=L386 Staffordshire Record Office, L386] is a memoir of his First World War service written up in 1940 from contemporary notes. Catalogue page also includes some photos.

== Related media ==


== Official sources ==

=== {{War diary heading}} ===


* {{War diary TNA|http://discovery.nationalarchives.gov.uk/details/r/C14055302|WO 95/2688/1|01/03/1915|30/09/1915}}
* {{War diary TNA|http://discovery.nationalarchives.gov.uk/details/r/C14055303|WO 95/2688/2|01/10/1915|31/03/1916}}
* {{War diary TNA|http://discovery.nationalarchives.gov.uk/details/r/C14055304|WO 95/2688/3|01/04/1916|31/12/1916}}
* {{War diary TNA|http://discovery.nationalarchives.gov.uk/details/r/C14055305|WO 95/2689/1|01/01/1917|31/05/1917}}
* {{War diary TNA|http://discovery.nationalarchives.gov.uk/details/r/C14055306|WO 95/2689/2|01/06/1917|30/09/1917}}
* {{War diary TNA|http://discovery.nationalarchives.gov.uk/details/r/C14055307|WO 95/2689/3|01/10/1917|28/02/1918}}
* {{War diary TNA|http://discovery.nationalarchives.gov.uk/details/r/C14055308|WO 95/2689/4|01/03/1918|30/09/1918}}
* {{War diary TNA|http://discovery.nationalarchives.gov.uk/details/r/C14055309|WO 95/2689/5|01/10/1918|31/05/1919}}

=== Unit histories ===

=== Other official documents ===


== Other sources ==




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[[Category:All British Army units]]
[[Category:British infantry brigades]]
[[Category:Units with personal narratives]]

== References ==

<references />

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Lists of personal diaries, letters, memoirs

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The letters, diaries, memoirs etc listed below could be linked to specific military units, but each name needs to be researched to find out exactly which unit they were in at the time. '''Can you help? Pick a name or document below, and try to find their military records to show which battalion they were in.'''

Here are some resources on [[researching World War One records]] to get you started.

== Individual items ==
These names need to be matched to individual units so they can be added to its page. '''If you can find out which units these people were in, and [https://mia2.typeform.com/to/dkhC4B send in your links] to have them added to the wiki.''' If you're working on someone's record, you can also edit the wiki to add a note saying so. Remove the name below once it's been added to a regiment or battalion page.

* [http://blogs.bl.uk/untoldlives/2017/11/testimony-from-the-trenches-personal-journeys-of-ww1.html blog post about Alfred Forbes Johnson]. His papers and photos are now British Library Add MS 89235. He served in the Artists Rifles (which battalion?) and Royal Garrison Artillery (which unit?).

* [http://www.archives.staffordshire.gov.uk/CalmView/Record.aspx?src=CalmView.Catalog&id=L386 Diary and photos of John Henry Turner] of the [[Royal Engineers, British Army|Royal Engineers]]. Served in the signal section of [[138th Infantry Brigade, British Army|138th Infantry Brigade]].

* [http://ufdc.ufl.edu/wwi Diary of Albert Huet] in the French infantry. [http://www.crid1418.org/temoins/2016/03/12/huet-albert-1897-1977/ This biography] gives the regiments he served in.

* [http://www.markboyd.info/adboyd/index.html Letters of Austin Dewitt Boyd] D Company (which battalion?) [[166th Infantry Regiment, US]].

* Petty Officer Hans Heinz Harmes-Emden [http://www.awm.gov.au/people/P3818/#collection-items Australian War Memorial - Anzac Connections - collection items]
** German navy: SMS Emden (1908)

* Private David Watson Izatt [http://www.awm.gov.au/people/P10675843/#collection-items Australian War Memorial - Anzac Connections - collection items]
** 10 Casualty Clearing Station (British?)
** 15 Casualty Clearing Station (British?)
** [[No 2 Australian General Hospital]]
** [[No 1 Casualty Clearing Station, Australian Imperial Force (AIF)]]

* Sergeant John Robert Cowan Kelly [http://www.awm.gov.au/people/P10677284/#collection-items Australian War Memorial - Anzac Connections - collection items]
** [[30th Battalion, Australian Imperial Force (AIF)]]
** [[Elope Force, British Army]] in Russia

* Major Percy Lay [http://www.awm.gov.au/people/P10675871/#collection-items Australian War Memorial - Anzac Connections - collection items]
** [[8th Battalion, Australian Imperial Force (AIF)]]
** [[Dunster Force, British Army]] in Persia

* Bodleian Library, Oxford, [http://www.bodley.ox.ac.uk/dept/scwmss/wmss/online/blcas/kings-african-rifles.html MSS. Afr. s. 1715] (168A) (Box 10): papers of Brigadier M.S. Lush, who served in the Sudan Political Service, 1914-1945.

* Bodleian Library, Oxford, [http://www.bodley.ox.ac.uk/dept/scwmss/wmss/online/blcas/kings-african-rifles.html MSS. Afr. s. 1715] (103) (Box 5): papers of Sir Angus Gillan, who served in the Sudan Political Service and took part in the Darfur campaign in 1916.

* [https://archive.org/details/gogetem00will Go, get 'em! The true adventures of an American aviator of the Lafayette flying corps who was the only Yankee flyer fighting over General Pershing's boys of the Rainbow division in Lorraine, when they first went "over the top" by William A. Wellman] Joined a volunteer ambulance unit, then the French Foreign Legion and served as a pilot in the Lafayette Flying Corps. See [[Wikipedia:William_A._Wellman#World_War_I]] for more details.

* [https://archive.org/details/whenchenalsingsm00wyth When Chenal sings the Marseillaise : With the honors of war : Sister Julie by Wythe Williams]

* [http://lettersfromww1.blogspot.com Letters home from Private Edward Ray Jackson] (Canadian)

* [http://haroldskillingslettersfromww1.blogspot.com Harold Skilling's Letters From World War One]
** Canadian Expeditionary Force
** Royal Flying Corps

* [http://morelettersfromww1.blogspot.com Lieutenant William Milton Skilling]
** Canadian Expeditionary Force
** [[Royal Artillery, British Army]]
** [[53rd Battalion, Royal Warwickshire Regiment, British Army]]

* Louis Barthas (ed. Edward M. Strauss), ''Poilu: The World War I Notebooks of Louis Barthas, Barrelmaker, 1914-1918'' (Yale University Press, 2014, ISBN 978-0300191592) is a translation of the diaries of French soldier Louis Barthas. Served in these regiments of the French Army (see [[Wikipedia:Louis Barthas]]):
** 280th
** 269th
** 248th

* [http://ww1journeys.org/paul-thuns/ Paul Thuns' War-Diary 1914-1918] (served in German army)

* [https://medium.com/@ri_science/letters-to-gwendoline-one-gallipoli-story-told-through-letters-home-9a3f434ec82e Letters to Gwendoline: One story of Gallipoli told through letters home in memory of Anzac Day] (58th Brigade, Royal Field Artillery)

* [https://www.archive.org/stream/englishwomanserg00sanduoft/englishwomanserg00sanduoft_djvu.txt An English Woman-Sergeant in the Serbian Army] by [[Wikipedia:Flora_Sandes|Flora Sandes]], 'the only British woman officially to serve as a soldier in World War I'.

* The [https://www.awm.gov.au/collection/PR88/165/ letters] of [[Wikipedia:Pearl_Corkhill|Sister Pearl Elizabeth Corkhill, AANS]] could shed light on many locations.

* FIELD HOSPITAL & FLYING COLUMN. Being the Journal of an English Nursing Sister in Belgium & Russia by Violetta Thurstan.

* Charlie, who wrote [http://www.peoplescollectionwales.co.uk/discover/query/Blanche%20Woonton these postcards to Blanche Woonton], served on the British hospital ship [[SS Asturias]].

* Where was [http://www.peoplescollectionwales.co.uk/discover/query/ww1%20letter%20Llewelyn%20Williams Llewelyn Williams] based?

* [//www.awm.gov.au/collection/PR03431/ Bayley, Francis Wilton (Private), 1896-1974]: Imperial Camel Corps

* [http://wellcomelibrary.org/player/b19604592#?asi=0&ai=5&z=-0.0083%2C-0.1056%2C0.944%2C1.0838 War diary kept by Captain Neil Cantlie, RAMC, with the 6th Division at the Battle of the Somme, Sept - Oct 1916]
**[[Divisional Medical Services, 6th Division, British Army]]

* Ely, Dinsmore, 1894-1918. '[https://archive.org/details/dinsmoreelyonewh00elyd Diary letters of Dinsmore Ely], edited by his father, Dr. James O. Ely'. Library of Congress via Internet Archive. American pilot.

* [http://www.trentu.ca/admin/library/archives/ffowldswelcome.htm Nursing Sister Helen L. Fowlds]

* [http://www.iwm.org.uk/collections/item/object/1030019021 Private Papers of Lieutenant L H Riddell]
** pilot in Royal Naval Air Service and Royal Air Force
** prisoner of war in Germany

* [http://dh.tcd.ie/letters1916/diyhistory/items/show/1791 Letter from John Adams to his mother Mary Adams, 13 May 1916]

* [http://dh.tcd.ie/letters1916/diyhistory/items/show/1671 Letter from Charles Hezlet to his mother, 26 September 1916]
**Commander of 33rd Siege Battery Royal Garrison Artillery

* [http://tapuhi.natlib.govt.nz/cgi-bin/spydus/FULL/GLOBAL/OPHDR/551/2732,4 Letter from Joseph Vivian Wilson to Dr D E Currie, 13 June 1917]

*DeWitt C. Ellinwood Jr. (ed.), ''Between Two Worlds: A Rajput Officer in the Indian Army, 1905–21. Based on the Diary of Amar Singh of Jaipur'' (University Press of America, 2005, ISBN 0-7618-3113-4). Which unit did Amar Singh serve in?

== Collections of items ==

* The [http://www.iwm.org.uk/collections/search Imperial War Museum catalogue] has details of personal papers, sound recordings, films and objects from the United Kingdom and former British Empire. Sound recordings include interviews with people who experienced the First World War. Many of these interviews can be heard on the site free of charge and reused for non-commercial purposes. The catalogue is searchable and is also indexed by unit.
* c 3000 videos from WWI at [http://www.europeanfilmgateway.eu/node/33/efg1914/multilingual:1/showOnly:video European Film Gateway's EFG1914 project]
* A list of [http://dh.tcd.ie/letters1916/diyhistory/collections/show/18 letters about the First World War on The Letters of 1916 project site]. You can also help transcribe letters at their site.

* A list of memoirs and diaries at [http://www.firstworldwar.com/diaries/index.htm firstworldwar.com]

* Some [http://www.westernfrontassociation.com/great-war-people/diaries.html diaries listed on the Western Front Association site]

* A massive list of [http://wwi.lib.byu.edu/index.php/Diaries,_Memorials,_Personal_Reminiscences 'Diaries, Memorials, Personal Reminiscences'] compiled by volunteers of the World War I Military History List (WWI-L). '''Pick a name, find out which unit they were with, and add them to the battalion/regiment page!'''

* [http://search.wellcomelibrary.org/iii/encore/search?formids=target&lang=eng&suite=def&reservedids=lang%2Csuite&submitmode=&submitname=&target=digramc&submit=Search Digitised Royal Army Medical Corps (RAMC) papers from the Wellcome Library]
: From their blog post '[http://blog.wellcomelibrary.org/2014/06/rediscovering-the-great-war/ (Re)Discovering the Great War]', 'The Wellcome Library has digitized over 130,000 pages of correspondence, personal and field diaries and reports, photographs and memoirs associated with the allied medical services during World War I. Drawn from material presented to the Royal Army Medical Corps Museum and Archive (now the Army Medical Services Museum Trust), the collection covers virtually every sphere of operations including the Balkan Front, the Dardanelles, East Africa, India, Italy, Malta, Mesopotamia and the Middle East, Russia, and South West Africa, as well as the Western and British Home fronts.'

* The Great War Archive contains [http://www.oucs.ox.ac.uk/ww1lit/db/results.php?CISOBOX1=memoir&CISOFIELD1=objecb&CISOOP1=exact&CISOROOT=%2Fgwa memoirs], [http://www.oucs.ox.ac.uk/ww1lit/db/results.php?CISOBOX1=letter&CISOFIELD1=objecb&CISOOP1=exact&CISOROOT=%2Fgwa letters] and [http://www.oucs.ox.ac.uk/ww1lit/db/results.php?CISOBOX1=diary&CISOFIELD1=objecb&CISOOP1=exact&CISOROOT=%2Fgwa diaries], each of which could be linked to an Allied battalion or regiment.

* An archive of transcribed war diary (Kriegstagebuch), letters and blogs includes a list of diaries from [http://www.war-diary.com/ Weltkrieg / The Great War]

* [http://www.wartimememoriesproject.com/greatwar/allied/ The Wartime Memories Project - The Great War 1914-1918 The Allied Army] contains many personal accounts, mostly second-hand stories related by family members.

* [http://library.leeds.ac.uk/special-collections-liddle-collection The Liddle Collection], Leeds University Library. Includes personal papers of over 4,000 people who experienced the First World War, and over 750 sound recordings and transcripts of interviews about experiences of the First World War.

* [http://www.kingscollections.org/catalogues/lhcma Liddell Hart Centre for Military Archives, King's College London] hold personal papers of senior British personnel.

* [http://transcribe.royalbcmuseum.bc.ca/collections/show/2 Transcribe project at the Royal British Columbia Museum] is a crowdsourced project to transcribe letters and diaries from their archives. The First World War collection includes narratives relating to several Canadian and British units.

* Sharon Ouditt, ''Women Writers of the First World War: An Annotated Bibliography'' (Routledge, 2014). ISBN 978-0415755498. Includes personal narratives of war experiences, and guides to archive collections.

=== Australian personal narratives ===
The Australian War Memorial's [http://www.awm.gov.au/people/profiles/#ANZACConnections Anzac Connections lists 188 (at the time of writing) 'Biographies including private records and diaries']

The State Library of NSW has a [http://ww1.sl.nsw.gov.au/explore/179/ collection of WWI diaries] and [http://ww1.sl.nsw.gov.au/explore/180 letters] online. Can you link the authors to their [[Australian battalions in World War I|battalion page]]?

The [http://diggersdiaries.org/ SLNSW diaries have been analysed and visualised] by Jaume Nualart Vilaplana as part of his PhD. You can explore them via the [http://diggersdiaries.org/reader.html topics Personal, War, Military life, Travelling and The accidental tourist].

A user list of [http://trove.nla.gov.au/list?id=36319 Great War diaries, letters, reminiscences] on Trove (not all diaries may be available online)

[https://www.historypin.org/en/first-world-war-centenary/memories-for-a-new-generation/her-noble-share/geo/-23.808737,145.433219,4/bounds/-52.964039,125.701774,13.492979,165.164664 State Library of Queensland HistoryPin collection for women in WWI]: 'Honouring the contribution of Queensland women during the First World War, both at the home front and the war front'.

[http://www.anzaclive.com.au/ Anzac Live] has 'interactive' posts based on letters and diaries from various men and women.

=== British and Irish personal narratives ===

* [http://gallipoli.rte.ie/people/eye-witnesses Eyewitness accounts from Irish soldiers and nurses involved with the Gallipoli campaign] from Ireland's National Public Service Broadcaster, RTÉ.

* [http://www.tcd.ie/library/fitasfiddles/ Fit as Fiddles and Hard as Nails] is a collection of Irish soldiers' letters, diaries and memoirs digitized by Trinity College Dublin.

* [http://www.librariesni.org.uk/LibrarymenofWW1/Pages/default.aspx The Library Men of WW1]: a collection of letters from 11 Belfast librarians who served in the British Army.

* [http://cymru1914.org/en/home Cymru 1914, The Welsh Experience of the First World War] includes some diaries, photographs, letters and memoirs

* [http://www.peoplescollectionwales.co.uk/users/2357 Cymry'r Rhyfel Mawr / Welsh Voices of the Great War] on People's Collection Wales

* [http://www.cardiff.ac.uk/share/research/projectreports/welshvoices/ Welsh Voices of the Great War Online]

* [http://www.qdg.org.uk/diaries.php Personal Diaries and letters of Officers and Other Ranks from the 1st The Queen’s Dragoon Guards]

* [http://www.herefordshirehistory.org.uk/archive/herefordshire-in-the-great-war Herefordshire in the Great War]

* {{Cite TNA|http://discovery.nationalarchives.gov.uk/details/r/C3852|CAB 45}}, official historian's papers, includes personal diaries and letters that were used to write the British Official History.

* [http://worldwar1veterans.blogspot.co.uk/p/veteran-index.html World War 1 Veterans 1914-1918 blog]: a collection of interviews with veterans conducted by Paul Nixon in the 1980s.

=== Canadian personal narratives ===
If you're interested in finding records for Canadian battalions, the [http://www.canadiangreatwarproject.com/WarDiaries/diarySearch.asp Canadian Great War project has a form to search for War Diaries by unit].

[http://www.collectionscanada.gc.ca/first-world-war/interviews/index-e.html Oral Histories of the First World War: Veterans 1914-1918] based on the CBC's radio broadcast In Flanders Fields, a series of one-on-one interviews with veterans of the Canadian Expeditionary Force, which aired from November 11, 1964 to March 7, 1965. The website is organized into seven themes: Second Ypres, Vimy Ridge, War in the Air, The Somme, Trench Warfare, Passchendaele, Perspectives on War. Contains images, interview audio and transcripts.

=== New Zealand personal narratives ===
[http://www.nzmr.org/troopers.htm Personal Histories of the New Zealand Mounted Rifles] (see also the [http://www.nzmr.org/sitemap.htm sitemap]).

[http://natlib.govt.nz/items?utf8=%E2%9C%93&text=WW100+digitisation+project Diaries listed in the National Library of New Zealand's WW100 digitisation project]

[https://natlib.govt.nz/blog/posts/off-at-last-the-goodbye-would-have-been-too-awful Off at last the goodbye would have been too awful] is a blog post featuring diaries discovered during digitisation at the Alexander Turnbull Library.

[https://natlib.govt.nz/blog/posts/it-s-just-hell-here-now "It's just hell here now"] is an Anzac Day post from the Alexander Turnbull Library that shows what can be learnt from individual diaries.

[http://www.sincewritingyoulast.co.nz/ Since writing you last] is a collection of digitized letters from Invercargill City Libraries and Archives.

=== American personal narratives ===
[http://www.loc.gov/vets/ Veterans History Project]

=== Indian personal narratives ===

* David Omissi (ed.), ''Indian Voices of the Great War: Soldiers' Letters, 1914-1918'', (Palgrave Macmillan, 1999). ISBN 0333751450. Compilation of Indian soldiers' letters.
* [http://searcharchives.bl.uk/IAMS_VU2:IAMS040-000340715 British Library IOR/L/MIL/5/825-828]: Reports of the Censor of Indian Mails in France. These reports contain many extracts of Indian soldiers' letters. Page scans are available through the "Browse this collection" link on the catalogue record page.
* There are lots of references to individual soldiers and Indian Army units mentioned in [http://www.sikhiwiki.org/index.php/Sikhs_in_World_War_1 Sikhs in World War 1 on SihkiWiki] - can you find sources for them and link them to the appropriate [[Indian units in World War I|Indian unit]]?

=== French personal narratives ===

* [http://www.loiret14-18.fr/ La centenaire de la Guerre 14-18 dans le Loiret] is a French site that contains lots of narratives, media and other resources.

== Related Media ==

Images and recordings that aren't personal narratives but could be matched to units or used on other pages.

* There's a stash of [http://hdl.handle.net/10462/comp/2948 fantastic photos in The "Cambrian" Album] from the [http://hdl.handle.net/10462/eadarc/5855 OM77-14 2nd Light Horse Association Records 1914-1920] at the State Library of Queensland. The album includes photos from other units - can you help by adding images and links to unit pages?

* India and the Great War has some [http://indiaww1.in/memory.aspx Stories and Memories] that might provide some clues

* [http://collections.tepapa.govt.nz/Object/397412 New Zealand's Roll of Honour 1915 The Auckland Weekly News Illustrated List] with the names and photos of 'New Zealand Officers and Men killed or wounded in action in Turkey, The Dardanelles & Gallipoli in 1915'
* Items digitised by Te Papa include the [http://collections.tepapa.govt.nz/Object/1366687 Photograph album of Major J.M. Rose, 1st NZEF] - which units are depicted in his photographs?
* The US National Archives has some large collections of WW1 photos, many of which mention unit names in the catalogue descriptions:
** [https://catalog.archives.gov/id/533461 American Unofficial Collection of World War I Photographs, 1917 - 1918]
** [https://catalog.archives.gov/id/533104 British Photographs of World War I, 1914 - 1918]
* Royal Armouries online collections includes [https://collections.royalarmouries.org/first-world-war Arms of the First World War], with photos and catalogue descriptions of weapons.
* [http://www.iwm.org.uk/collections/listing/object-205015340 Imperial War Museum: A H T Andrew's photos]: a large collection of photos taken while he was a medical officer with [[29th Division, British Army]] at Gallipoli, but also showing many other units.

* Berliner Lautarchiv British & Commonwealth recordings: sound recordings of British prisoners of war in Germany. A selection of 66 of these recordings can be heard at [http://sounds.bl.uk/Accents-and-dialects/Berliner-Lautarchiv-British-and-Commonwealth-recordings British Library Sound Archive website]. These need matching to units.

* [http://www.illustratedfirstworldwar.com/ The Illustrated First World War] website contains a large collection of photos from the archives of the Illustrated London News. Free to view but all rights reserved.

* The Library of Congress has a collection of [http://www.loc.gov/pictures/related/?va=exact&st=gallery&q=World+War%2C+1914-1918--Recruiting+%26+enlistment--United+States.&fi=subject&sg=true&op=EQUAL&loclr=blogpic American recruiting posters], and hundreds of [http://www.loc.gov/rr/print/coll/womphotoj/kirtlandintro.html?loclr=blogpic photos taken by Helen Johns Kirtland], including the Italian front.

* The [http://www.bbc.co.uk/arts/yourpaintings/ Your Paintings site] has artworks including Ellis Silas [http://www.bbc.co.uk/arts/yourpaintings/paintings/the-last-roll-call-6236 The Last Roll Call] that could be linked to specific units through their artists.

== Research in progress ==
Add notes or links here for diaries you need help researching, missing links from the sites above, etc.

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Lists of personal diaries, letters, memoirs

2017-11-28T19:40:00Z

GavinRobinson: /* Individual items */ done all Berrymans

The letters, diaries, memoirs etc listed below could be linked to specific military units, but each name needs to be researched to find out exactly which unit they were in at the time. '''Can you help? Pick a name or document below, and try to find their military records to show which battalion they were in.'''

Here are some resources on [[researching World War One records]] to get you started.

== Individual items ==
These names need to be matched to individual units so they can be added to its page. '''If you can find out which units these people were in, and [https://mia2.typeform.com/to/dkhC4B send in your links] to have them added to the wiki.''' If you're working on someone's record, you can also edit the wiki to add a note saying so. Remove the name below once it's been added to a regiment or battalion page.

* [http://blogs.bl.uk/untoldlives/2017/11/testimony-from-the-trenches-personal-journeys-of-ww1.html blog post about Alfred Forbes Johnson]. His papers and photos are now British Library Add MS 89235. He served in the Artists Rifles (which battalion?) and Royal Garrison Artillery (which unit?).

* [http://www.archives.staffordshire.gov.uk/CalmView/Record.aspx?src=CalmView.Catalog&id=L386 Diary and photos of John Henry Turner] of the [[Royal Engineers, British Army|Royal Engineers]]. Served in the signal section of [[138th Infantry Brigade, British Army|138th Infantry Brigade]].

* [http://ufdc.ufl.edu/wwi Diary of Albert Huet] in the French infantry. [http://www.crid1418.org/temoins/2016/03/12/huet-albert-1897-1977/ This biography] gives the regiments he served in.

* [http://www.markboyd.info/adboyd/index.html Letters of Austin Dewitt Boyd] D Company (which battalion?) [[166th Infantry Regiment, US]].

* Petty Officer Hans Heinz Harmes-Emden [http://www.awm.gov.au/people/P3818/#collection-items Australian War Memorial - Anzac Connections - collection items]
** German navy: SMS Emden (1908)

* Private David Watson Izatt [http://www.awm.gov.au/people/P10675843/#collection-items Australian War Memorial - Anzac Connections - collection items]
** 10 Casualty Clearing Station (British?)
** 15 Casualty Clearing Station (British?)
** [[No 2 Australian General Hospital]]
** [[No 1 Casualty Clearing Station, Australian Imperial Force (AIF)]]

* Sergeant John Robert Cowan Kelly [http://www.awm.gov.au/people/P10677284/#collection-items Australian War Memorial - Anzac Connections - collection items]
** [[30th Battalion, Australian Imperial Force (AIF)]]
** [[Elope Force]] in Russia

* Major Percy Lay [http://www.awm.gov.au/people/P10675871/#collection-items Australian War Memorial - Anzac Connections - collection items]
** [[8th Battalion, Australian Imperial Force (AIF)]]
** [[Dunster Force]] in Persia

* Bodleian Library, Oxford, [http://www.bodley.ox.ac.uk/dept/scwmss/wmss/online/blcas/kings-african-rifles.html MSS. Afr. s. 1715] (168A) (Box 10): papers of Brigadier M.S. Lush, who served in the Sudan Political Service, 1914-1945.

* Bodleian Library, Oxford, [http://www.bodley.ox.ac.uk/dept/scwmss/wmss/online/blcas/kings-african-rifles.html MSS. Afr. s. 1715] (103) (Box 5): papers of Sir Angus Gillan, who served in the Sudan Political Service and took part in the Darfur campaign in 1916.

* [https://archive.org/details/gogetem00will Go, get 'em! The true adventures of an American aviator of the Lafayette flying corps who was the only Yankee flyer fighting over General Pershing's boys of the Rainbow division in Lorraine, when they first went "over the top" by William A. Wellman] Joined a volunteer ambulance unit, then the French Foreign Legion and served as a pilot in the Lafayette Flying Corps. See [[Wikipedia:William_A._Wellman#World_War_I]] for more details.

* [https://archive.org/details/whenchenalsingsm00wyth When Chenal sings the Marseillaise : With the honors of war : Sister Julie by Wythe Williams]

* [http://lettersfromww1.blogspot.com Letters home from Private Edward Ray Jackson] (Canadian)

* [http://haroldskillingslettersfromww1.blogspot.com Harold Skilling's Letters From World War One]
** Canadian Expeditionary Force
** Royal Flying Corps

* [http://morelettersfromww1.blogspot.com Lieutenant William Milton Skilling]
** Canadian Expeditionary Force
** [[Royal Artillery, British Army]]
** [[53rd Battalion, Royal Warwickshire Regiment, British Army]]

* Louis Barthas (ed. Edward M. Strauss), ''Poilu: The World War I Notebooks of Louis Barthas, Barrelmaker, 1914-1918'' (Yale University Press, 2014, ISBN 978-0300191592) is a translation of the diaries of French soldier Louis Barthas. Served in these regiments of the French Army (see [[Wikipedia:Louis Barthas]]):
** 280th
** 269th
** 248th

* [http://ww1journeys.org/paul-thuns/ Paul Thuns' War-Diary 1914-1918] (served in German army)

* [https://medium.com/@ri_science/letters-to-gwendoline-one-gallipoli-story-told-through-letters-home-9a3f434ec82e Letters to Gwendoline: One story of Gallipoli told through letters home in memory of Anzac Day] (58th Brigade, Royal Field Artillery)

* [https://www.archive.org/stream/englishwomanserg00sanduoft/englishwomanserg00sanduoft_djvu.txt An English Woman-Sergeant in the Serbian Army] by [[Wikipedia:Flora_Sandes|Flora Sandes]], 'the only British woman officially to serve as a soldier in World War I'.

* The [https://www.awm.gov.au/collection/PR88/165/ letters] of [[Wikipedia:Pearl_Corkhill|Sister Pearl Elizabeth Corkhill, AANS]] could shed light on many locations.

* FIELD HOSPITAL & FLYING COLUMN. Being the Journal of an English Nursing Sister in Belgium & Russia by Violetta Thurstan.

* Charlie, who wrote [http://www.peoplescollectionwales.co.uk/discover/query/Blanche%20Woonton these postcards to Blanche Woonton], served on the British hospital ship [[SS Asturias]].

* Where was [http://www.peoplescollectionwales.co.uk/discover/query/ww1%20letter%20Llewelyn%20Williams Llewelyn Williams] based?

* [//www.awm.gov.au/collection/PR03431/ Bayley, Francis Wilton (Private), 1896-1974]: Imperial Camel Corps

* [http://wellcomelibrary.org/player/b19604592#?asi=0&ai=5&z=-0.0083%2C-0.1056%2C0.944%2C1.0838 War diary kept by Captain Neil Cantlie, RAMC, with the 6th Division at the Battle of the Somme, Sept - Oct 1916]
**[[Divisional Medical Services, 6th Division, British Army]]

* Ely, Dinsmore, 1894-1918. '[https://archive.org/details/dinsmoreelyonewh00elyd Diary letters of Dinsmore Ely], edited by his father, Dr. James O. Ely'. Library of Congress via Internet Archive. American pilot.

* [http://www.trentu.ca/admin/library/archives/ffowldswelcome.htm Nursing Sister Helen L. Fowlds]

* [http://www.iwm.org.uk/collections/item/object/1030019021 Private Papers of Lieutenant L H Riddell]
** pilot in Royal Naval Air Service and Royal Air Force
** prisoner of war in Germany

* [http://dh.tcd.ie/letters1916/diyhistory/items/show/1791 Letter from John Adams to his mother Mary Adams, 13 May 1916]

* [http://dh.tcd.ie/letters1916/diyhistory/items/show/1671 Letter from Charles Hezlet to his mother, 26 September 1916]
**Commander of 33rd Siege Battery Royal Garrison Artillery

* [http://tapuhi.natlib.govt.nz/cgi-bin/spydus/FULL/GLOBAL/OPHDR/551/2732,4 Letter from Joseph Vivian Wilson to Dr D E Currie, 13 June 1917]

*DeWitt C. Ellinwood Jr. (ed.), ''Between Two Worlds: A Rajput Officer in the Indian Army, 1905–21. Based on the Diary of Amar Singh of Jaipur'' (University Press of America, 2005, ISBN 0-7618-3113-4). Which unit did Amar Singh serve in?

== Collections of items ==

* The [http://www.iwm.org.uk/collections/search Imperial War Museum catalogue] has details of personal papers, sound recordings, films and objects from the United Kingdom and former British Empire. Sound recordings include interviews with people who experienced the First World War. Many of these interviews can be heard on the site free of charge and reused for non-commercial purposes. The catalogue is searchable and is also indexed by unit.
* c 3000 videos from WWI at [http://www.europeanfilmgateway.eu/node/33/efg1914/multilingual:1/showOnly:video European Film Gateway's EFG1914 project]
* A list of [http://dh.tcd.ie/letters1916/diyhistory/collections/show/18 letters about the First World War on The Letters of 1916 project site]. You can also help transcribe letters at their site.

* A list of memoirs and diaries at [http://www.firstworldwar.com/diaries/index.htm firstworldwar.com]

* Some [http://www.westernfrontassociation.com/great-war-people/diaries.html diaries listed on the Western Front Association site]

* A massive list of [http://wwi.lib.byu.edu/index.php/Diaries,_Memorials,_Personal_Reminiscences 'Diaries, Memorials, Personal Reminiscences'] compiled by volunteers of the World War I Military History List (WWI-L). '''Pick a name, find out which unit they were with, and add them to the battalion/regiment page!'''

* [http://search.wellcomelibrary.org/iii/encore/search?formids=target&lang=eng&suite=def&reservedids=lang%2Csuite&submitmode=&submitname=&target=digramc&submit=Search Digitised Royal Army Medical Corps (RAMC) papers from the Wellcome Library]
: From their blog post '[http://blog.wellcomelibrary.org/2014/06/rediscovering-the-great-war/ (Re)Discovering the Great War]', 'The Wellcome Library has digitized over 130,000 pages of correspondence, personal and field diaries and reports, photographs and memoirs associated with the allied medical services during World War I. Drawn from material presented to the Royal Army Medical Corps Museum and Archive (now the Army Medical Services Museum Trust), the collection covers virtually every sphere of operations including the Balkan Front, the Dardanelles, East Africa, India, Italy, Malta, Mesopotamia and the Middle East, Russia, and South West Africa, as well as the Western and British Home fronts.'

* The Great War Archive contains [http://www.oucs.ox.ac.uk/ww1lit/db/results.php?CISOBOX1=memoir&CISOFIELD1=objecb&CISOOP1=exact&CISOROOT=%2Fgwa memoirs], [http://www.oucs.ox.ac.uk/ww1lit/db/results.php?CISOBOX1=letter&CISOFIELD1=objecb&CISOOP1=exact&CISOROOT=%2Fgwa letters] and [http://www.oucs.ox.ac.uk/ww1lit/db/results.php?CISOBOX1=diary&CISOFIELD1=objecb&CISOOP1=exact&CISOROOT=%2Fgwa diaries], each of which could be linked to an Allied battalion or regiment.

* An archive of transcribed war diary (Kriegstagebuch), letters and blogs includes a list of diaries from [http://www.war-diary.com/ Weltkrieg / The Great War]

* [http://www.wartimememoriesproject.com/greatwar/allied/ The Wartime Memories Project - The Great War 1914-1918 The Allied Army] contains many personal accounts, mostly second-hand stories related by family members.

* [http://library.leeds.ac.uk/special-collections-liddle-collection The Liddle Collection], Leeds University Library. Includes personal papers of over 4,000 people who experienced the First World War, and over 750 sound recordings and transcripts of interviews about experiences of the First World War.

* [http://www.kingscollections.org/catalogues/lhcma Liddell Hart Centre for Military Archives, King's College London] hold personal papers of senior British personnel.

* [http://transcribe.royalbcmuseum.bc.ca/collections/show/2 Transcribe project at the Royal British Columbia Museum] is a crowdsourced project to transcribe letters and diaries from their archives. The First World War collection includes narratives relating to several Canadian and British units.

* Sharon Ouditt, ''Women Writers of the First World War: An Annotated Bibliography'' (Routledge, 2014). ISBN 978-0415755498. Includes personal narratives of war experiences, and guides to archive collections.

=== Australian personal narratives ===
The Australian War Memorial's [http://www.awm.gov.au/people/profiles/#ANZACConnections Anzac Connections lists 188 (at the time of writing) 'Biographies including private records and diaries']

The State Library of NSW has a [http://ww1.sl.nsw.gov.au/explore/179/ collection of WWI diaries] and [http://ww1.sl.nsw.gov.au/explore/180 letters] online. Can you link the authors to their [[Australian battalions in World War I|battalion page]]?

The [http://diggersdiaries.org/ SLNSW diaries have been analysed and visualised] by Jaume Nualart Vilaplana as part of his PhD. You can explore them via the [http://diggersdiaries.org/reader.html topics Personal, War, Military life, Travelling and The accidental tourist].

A user list of [http://trove.nla.gov.au/list?id=36319 Great War diaries, letters, reminiscences] on Trove (not all diaries may be available online)

[https://www.historypin.org/en/first-world-war-centenary/memories-for-a-new-generation/her-noble-share/geo/-23.808737,145.433219,4/bounds/-52.964039,125.701774,13.492979,165.164664 State Library of Queensland HistoryPin collection for women in WWI]: 'Honouring the contribution of Queensland women during the First World War, both at the home front and the war front'.

[http://www.anzaclive.com.au/ Anzac Live] has 'interactive' posts based on letters and diaries from various men and women.

=== British and Irish personal narratives ===

* [http://gallipoli.rte.ie/people/eye-witnesses Eyewitness accounts from Irish soldiers and nurses involved with the Gallipoli campaign] from Ireland's National Public Service Broadcaster, RTÉ.

* [http://www.tcd.ie/library/fitasfiddles/ Fit as Fiddles and Hard as Nails] is a collection of Irish soldiers' letters, diaries and memoirs digitized by Trinity College Dublin.

* [http://www.librariesni.org.uk/LibrarymenofWW1/Pages/default.aspx The Library Men of WW1]: a collection of letters from 11 Belfast librarians who served in the British Army.

* [http://cymru1914.org/en/home Cymru 1914, The Welsh Experience of the First World War] includes some diaries, photographs, letters and memoirs

* [http://www.peoplescollectionwales.co.uk/users/2357 Cymry'r Rhyfel Mawr / Welsh Voices of the Great War] on People's Collection Wales

* [http://www.cardiff.ac.uk/share/research/projectreports/welshvoices/ Welsh Voices of the Great War Online]

* [http://www.qdg.org.uk/diaries.php Personal Diaries and letters of Officers and Other Ranks from the 1st The Queen’s Dragoon Guards]

* [http://www.herefordshirehistory.org.uk/archive/herefordshire-in-the-great-war Herefordshire in the Great War]

* {{Cite TNA|http://discovery.nationalarchives.gov.uk/details/r/C3852|CAB 45}}, official historian's papers, includes personal diaries and letters that were used to write the British Official History.

* [http://worldwar1veterans.blogspot.co.uk/p/veteran-index.html World War 1 Veterans 1914-1918 blog]: a collection of interviews with veterans conducted by Paul Nixon in the 1980s.

=== Canadian personal narratives ===
If you're interested in finding records for Canadian battalions, the [http://www.canadiangreatwarproject.com/WarDiaries/diarySearch.asp Canadian Great War project has a form to search for War Diaries by unit].

[http://www.collectionscanada.gc.ca/first-world-war/interviews/index-e.html Oral Histories of the First World War: Veterans 1914-1918] based on the CBC's radio broadcast In Flanders Fields, a series of one-on-one interviews with veterans of the Canadian Expeditionary Force, which aired from November 11, 1964 to March 7, 1965. The website is organized into seven themes: Second Ypres, Vimy Ridge, War in the Air, The Somme, Trench Warfare, Passchendaele, Perspectives on War. Contains images, interview audio and transcripts.

=== New Zealand personal narratives ===
[http://www.nzmr.org/troopers.htm Personal Histories of the New Zealand Mounted Rifles] (see also the [http://www.nzmr.org/sitemap.htm sitemap]).

[http://natlib.govt.nz/items?utf8=%E2%9C%93&text=WW100+digitisation+project Diaries listed in the National Library of New Zealand's WW100 digitisation project]

[https://natlib.govt.nz/blog/posts/off-at-last-the-goodbye-would-have-been-too-awful Off at last the goodbye would have been too awful] is a blog post featuring diaries discovered during digitisation at the Alexander Turnbull Library.

[https://natlib.govt.nz/blog/posts/it-s-just-hell-here-now "It's just hell here now"] is an Anzac Day post from the Alexander Turnbull Library that shows what can be learnt from individual diaries.

[http://www.sincewritingyoulast.co.nz/ Since writing you last] is a collection of digitized letters from Invercargill City Libraries and Archives.

=== American personal narratives ===
[http://www.loc.gov/vets/ Veterans History Project]

=== Indian personal narratives ===

* David Omissi (ed.), ''Indian Voices of the Great War: Soldiers' Letters, 1914-1918'', (Palgrave Macmillan, 1999). ISBN 0333751450. Compilation of Indian soldiers' letters.
* [http://searcharchives.bl.uk/IAMS_VU2:IAMS040-000340715 British Library IOR/L/MIL/5/825-828]: Reports of the Censor of Indian Mails in France. These reports contain many extracts of Indian soldiers' letters. Page scans are available through the "Browse this collection" link on the catalogue record page.
* There are lots of references to individual soldiers and Indian Army units mentioned in [http://www.sikhiwiki.org/index.php/Sikhs_in_World_War_1 Sikhs in World War 1 on SihkiWiki] - can you find sources for them and link them to the appropriate [[Indian units in World War I|Indian unit]]?

=== French personal narratives ===

* [http://www.loiret14-18.fr/ La centenaire de la Guerre 14-18 dans le Loiret] is a French site that contains lots of narratives, media and other resources.

== Related Media ==

Images and recordings that aren't personal narratives but could be matched to units or used on other pages.

* There's a stash of [http://hdl.handle.net/10462/comp/2948 fantastic photos in The "Cambrian" Album] from the [http://hdl.handle.net/10462/eadarc/5855 OM77-14 2nd Light Horse Association Records 1914-1920] at the State Library of Queensland. The album includes photos from other units - can you help by adding images and links to unit pages?

* India and the Great War has some [http://indiaww1.in/memory.aspx Stories and Memories] that might provide some clues

* [http://collections.tepapa.govt.nz/Object/397412 New Zealand's Roll of Honour 1915 The Auckland Weekly News Illustrated List] with the names and photos of 'New Zealand Officers and Men killed or wounded in action in Turkey, The Dardanelles & Gallipoli in 1915'
* Items digitised by Te Papa include the [http://collections.tepapa.govt.nz/Object/1366687 Photograph album of Major J.M. Rose, 1st NZEF] - which units are depicted in his photographs?
* The US National Archives has some large collections of WW1 photos, many of which mention unit names in the catalogue descriptions:
** [https://catalog.archives.gov/id/533461 American Unofficial Collection of World War I Photographs, 1917 - 1918]
** [https://catalog.archives.gov/id/533104 British Photographs of World War I, 1914 - 1918]
* Royal Armouries online collections includes [https://collections.royalarmouries.org/first-world-war Arms of the First World War], with photos and catalogue descriptions of weapons.
* [http://www.iwm.org.uk/collections/listing/object-205015340 Imperial War Museum: A H T Andrew's photos]: a large collection of photos taken while he was a medical officer with [[29th Division, British Army]] at Gallipoli, but also showing many other units.

* Berliner Lautarchiv British & Commonwealth recordings: sound recordings of British prisoners of war in Germany. A selection of 66 of these recordings can be heard at [http://sounds.bl.uk/Accents-and-dialects/Berliner-Lautarchiv-British-and-Commonwealth-recordings British Library Sound Archive website]. These need matching to units.

* [http://www.illustratedfirstworldwar.com/ The Illustrated First World War] website contains a large collection of photos from the archives of the Illustrated London News. Free to view but all rights reserved.

* The Library of Congress has a collection of [http://www.loc.gov/pictures/related/?va=exact&st=gallery&q=World+War%2C+1914-1918--Recruiting+%26+enlistment--United+States.&fi=subject&sg=true&op=EQUAL&loclr=blogpic American recruiting posters], and hundreds of [http://www.loc.gov/rr/print/coll/womphotoj/kirtlandintro.html?loclr=blogpic photos taken by Helen Johns Kirtland], including the Italian front.

* The [http://www.bbc.co.uk/arts/yourpaintings/ Your Paintings site] has artworks including Ellis Silas [http://www.bbc.co.uk/arts/yourpaintings/paintings/the-last-roll-call-6236 The Last Roll Call] that could be linked to specific units through their artists.

== Research in progress ==
Add notes or links here for diaries you need help researching, missing links from the sites above, etc.

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18th Battalion, Middlesex Regiment, British Army

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== Personal narratives ==


=== Paul Berryman ===

Paul Berryman was a Royal Navy officer. He wrote many letters while serving on:

* [[HMS Gloucester]]
* [[HMS Malaya]]

A collection of 166 family letters is held by the Imperial War Museum and has been published:

* original letters: [http://www.iwm.org.uk/collections/item/object/1030020614 Imperial War Museum Documents.18246]
* the letters are being blogged on their 100th anniversary at the [http://www.familyletters.co.uk/author/paul/ Family Letters blog].
* The Berryman family's letters have previously been printed as: {{Cite book| publisher = Sutton| isbn = 978-0-86299-227-9| editor-last = Nesham| editor-first = Félicité| title = Socks, cigarettes and shipwrecks: a family's war letters 1914-1918| location = Gloucester| date = 1987}}

== Related media ==


== Official Sources ==

=== {{War diary heading}} ===


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=== Unit histories ===

=== Other official documents ===


== Other sources ==




[[Category:Units with personal narratives]]
[[Category:Royal Navy ships]]

== References ==

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HMS Malaya

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| unit_name1 = HMS Malaya
| unit_name1_start_date = 1/2/1916
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== Personal narratives ==


=== Paul Berryman ===

Paul Berryman was a Royal Navy officer. He wrote many letters while serving on:

* [[HMS Gloucester]]
* [[HMS Malaya]]

A collection of 166 family letters is held by the Imperial War Museum and has been published:

* original letters: [http://www.iwm.org.uk/collections/item/object/1030020614 Imperial War Museum Documents.18246]
* the letters are being blogged on their 100th anniversary at the [http://www.familyletters.co.uk/author/paul/ Family Letters blog].
* The Berryman family's letters have previously been printed as: {{Cite book| publisher = Sutton| isbn = 978-0-86299-227-9| editor-last = Nesham| editor-first = Félicité| title = Socks, cigarettes and shipwrecks: a family's war letters 1914-1918| location = Gloucester| date = 1987}}

== Related media ==


== Official Sources ==

=== {{War diary heading}} ===


{{War diary needed}}

=== Unit histories ===

=== Other official documents ===


== Other sources ==




[[Category:Units with personal narratives]]
[[Category:Royal Navy ships]]

== References ==

<references />

25th Battalion, Middlesex Regiment, British Army

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GavinRobinson: Jim Berryman narrative

16th Battalion, Middlesex Regiment, British Army

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GavinRobinson: Jim Berryman narrative

18th Battalion, Middlesex Regiment, British Army

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GavinRobinson: Jim Berryman narrative

1/6th Battalion, King's Liverpool Regiment, British Army

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GavinRobinson: /* Other sources */ cat

1/5th Battalion, King's Liverpool Regiment, British Army

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GavinRobinson: /* Other sources */ cat

User:GavinRobinson

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GavinRobinson: /* To do list */

Historian and palaeographer. I run [http://www.differenthand.ltd.uk Different Hand Ltd], doing manuscript transcription, XML markup, research assistance and related services.
My PhD thesis and published work are on horses and cavalry in the English Civil War. I got into First World War research through tracing my great-grandad, who was in [[1/5th Battalion, Lincolnshire Regiment, British Army|1/5th Battalion Lincolnshire Regiment]]. I was a moderator at Your Archives and used to blog at Investigations of a Dog.

==To do list==

* try to clear list of individual narratives as far as possible

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Naming conventions for British units

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{{Naming conventions}}

== Page name suffixes ==

* if the word "British" already appears in the unit's name, it doesn't need a suffix.
* if the page is for a ship that starts with "HMS", it doesn't need a suffix.
* if the unit was wholly or mostly in the British Army, the suffix is ", British Army"
* if the unit was outside the British Army for a significant part of its existence, the suffix is ", British". This usually applies to:
** the Royal Air Force
** the Royal Navy, including units of [[63rd (Royal Naval) Division, British|63rd (Royal Naval) Division]]
** the Volunteer Training Corps
** voluntary organizations that were not legally part of the armed forces

Examples:

* [[British Expeditionary Force]]
* [[British Force in Italy]]
* [[Lincolnshire Regiment, British Army]]
* [[1st Battalion, Lancashire Fusiliers, British Army]]
* [[Anson Battalion, British]]
* [[First Aid Nursing Yeomanry, British]]

British units use the unit_name1 etc. parameters in {{tl|infobox military unit}} to record their actual full names, which are nearly always different from the page name. The suffixes ", British Army" and ", British" are never used in full names because they weren't part of the actual name and have been added to wiki page names for dismbiguation and information.

Page names usually use ordinal Arabic numbers, but there are some exceptions described below.

Units identified by letters, such as cavalry squadrons and horse artillery batteries, shouldn't have quotation marks around the letters in the page name.

In page names, there should always be a comma after the unit type if it forms part of the name. The comma may be followed by the regiment or corps that the unit belongs to, or directly by the suffix. This doesn't always apply to full names.

Examples:

* [[1st Battalion, Lancashire Fusiliers, British Army]]
* [[427th Field Company, Royal Engineers, British Army]]
* [[1st Battalion, Machine Gun Corps, British Army]]
* [[Household Battalion, British Army]]
* [[Anson Battalion, British]]
* [[46th Division, British Army]]
* [[138th Infantry Brigade, British Army]]

The only exceptions are where "British" forms part of the name and there isn't an administrative regiment or corps in the name. These are typically expeditionary forces:

* [[British Expeditionary Force]]
* [[British Force in Italy]]
* [[British Salonika Army]]

== The Territorial Force ==

The duplication of Territorial units during the First World War led to some complicated name histories. We still don't have definitive information about which units existed when, or what they were called. The official naming rules given in Army Orders and War Office Instructions weren't always followed in practice.

This section sets out what we know about general patterns for full names. More information about full names and page names is given below in sections about types of units.

=== First line ===

These were the original Territorial units. Most were formed from Volunteer Force units in 1908 but there are some exceptions which were created later. They seem to have kept their original names until they added 1/ in front, which was ordered in January 1915. Most of these units went overseas in 1914-15.

=== Second line ===

These were originally formed from men who didn't volunteer for overseas service with the first line units. Their initial role was to take the place of the first line units for home defence and to train new recruits, but after the introduction of conscription in 1916, they became liable for overseas service and most had gone overseas by the end of 1917.

Second line units were not all created at the same time as the rules said it depended on when the first line unit was selected for overseas service. The official naming rules are complicated, and were not necessarily put into practice. In January 1915 they were ordered to take the name of the original unit but with "2/" in front of it. From then on, their names seem to be fairly stable.

=== Third line ===

These were training units that always stayed at home. When they were supposed to be formed depended on when the first line unit went overseas, but the rules for creating and naming them weren't necessarily followed in practice. In January 1915 they were ordered to take the name of the original unit but with "3/" in front of it. Later many of them were amalgamated, taking the name of one of their equivalent first line units but adding "(Reserve)" after it.

== Formations ==

=== Page names ===

Tactical armies, corps, divisions and brigades usually follow this pattern:

* [[First Army, British Army]]
* [[XII Corps, British Army]]
* [[29th Division, British Army]]
* [[1st Cavalry Division, British Army]]
* [[Guards Division, British Army]]
* [[138th Infantry Brigade, British Army]]
* [[1st Guards Brigade, British Army]]
* [[1st Cavalry Brigade, British Army]]

Infantry division page names always include the division's ordinal number. Names in brackets are omitted unless they are needed for dismbiguation. The only known case is:

* [[63rd (Royal Naval) Division, British]]
* [[63rd (2nd Northumbrian) Division, British Army]]

'(1914)' is used to disambiguate the divisions of the original Fourth New Army that were formed in 1914 and broken up in April 1915. For example, [[30th Division (1914), British Army]] is not the same division as [[30th Division, British Army]].

Cavalry divisions have the word "Cavalry" to disambiguate them from infantry:

* [[1st Cavalry Division, British Army]] is not the same as [[1st Division, British Army]]
* [[2nd Cavalry Division, British Army]] is not the same as [[2nd Division, British Army]]

4th and 5th cavalry divisions each refer to two different Indian formations and were not used for British divisions.

The Cavalry Corps on the Western Front are under [[Cavalry Corps, British Army]].

Armies outside the Western Front are known by their names because they didn't have numbers:

* [[British Salonika Army]]
* [[Dardanelles Army, British Army]]

=== Full names ===

Full names should be entered in unit_name1 etc. in {{tl|infobox military unit}}. These names are usually given in Becke's ''Order of Battle''.

Territorial infantry divisions were originally known only by a name but were given numbers in 1915. These name changes should be entered in infoboxes. See [[46th Division, British Army]] for an example.

Territorial infantry brigades follow a similar pattern, except that the second name doesn't have the old name in brackets, only an ordinal number. See [[138th Infantry Brigade, British Army]] for an example.

=== Formation troops ===

Formations of division level and above usually had some support units attached directly to the formation headquarters. Formations will have at least one extra page grouping these units together.

Corps will have one "Corps Troops" page containing all corps troops. For example:

* [[Corps Troops, XI Corps, British Army]]

Divisions have several pages grouping units by type. Example from [[46th Division, British Army]]:

* [[Divisional Mounted Troops, 46th Division, British Army]]
* [[Divisional Artillery, 46th Division, British Army]]
* [[Divisional Engineers and Pioneers, 46th Division, British Army]]
* [[Divisional Machine Gun Units, 46th Division, British Army]]
* [[Divisional Medical Services, 46th Division, British Army]]
* [[Divisional Veterinary Services, 46th Division, British Army]]
* [[Divisional Supply and Transport, 46th Division, British Army]]

Groups for army troops and general headquarters troops are not yet decided.

== Infantry ==

This section covers infantry regiments and battalions of the British Army. See [[#Royal Navy and Royal Marines infantry]] further below for Royal Navy and Royal Marines infantry units.

=== Infantry regiments ===

Pages for all infantry regiments of the British Army already exist (except for the Volunteer Training Corps). Page names and full names are shown in the table at [[British units in World War I#Infantry regiments]].

Page names consist of the regiment name, shortened unless the name is already short enough, followed by the suffix ", British Army". Practice for shortening names is based on arbitrary decisions and an impression of common usage. General rules are:

* "King's" and "Royal" are always retained, but other royal or aristocratic titles are omitted.
* "and" is used instead of &
* brackets are often omitted if the name makes a coherent phrase without them. For example:
** "King's (Liverpool Regiment)" becomes [[King's Liverpool Regiment, British Army]]
** "King's Own (Yorkshire Light Infantry)" becomes [[King's Own Yorkshire Light Infantry, British Army]]
* brackets are retained in [[Cameronians (Scottish Rifles), British Army]]

Full names are as shown in E.A. James, ''British Regiments 1914-1918'' but omitting "The". The Monthly Army List can also be cited as a source for full names.

=== Infantry battalions ===

Pages already exist for every British infantry battalion named in E.A. James, ''British Regiments 1914-1918''.

==== Page names ====

The general pattern of infantry battalion page names is:

* the least ambiguous ordinal number that the battalion had. For Territorial battalions, this should include the fractional line number if it ever had one: "1/5th" not "5th".
* any words that are absolutely necessary to disambiguate the battalion from other battalions with the same number and regiment.
** The most usual one is "Garrison", but "(Home Service)" is usually omitted.
** "Buckinghamshire" and "Brecknockshire" are also needed to disambiguate some Territorial battalions.
** "(Reserve)" is usually omitted but there are a few cases where it needs to be kept.
* the word "Battalion".
* the page name of the parent regiment, including the suffix ", British Army".

If a battalion changed regiments, its whole history should go on one page, and there should be a redirect for each of its other regiments. Redirects are named according to the same conventions as other pages. To decide which of the page names has the actual content:

* named regiments are preferred. "Training Reserve Battalion", "Provisional Battalion" or "Battalion Royal Defence Corps" should only be used for the page name if the battalion was never part of a named infantry regiment.
* if a battalion was in the Training Reserve and ended up as 51st, 52nd or 53rd battalion of a named regiment, use the last name.
* if a battalion was in the Training Reserve but didn't move to a named regiment afterwards, use its first name.
* Garrison battalions that changed regiments are often put under the regiment in which they were part of the normal sequence of battalion numbers and not a Garrison battalion, but this isn't an important rule and isn't rigidly enforced.
* practice varies for other battalions that changed from one named regiment to another.

In some cases, a battalion was disbanded and another battalion (which previously had a different identity) took its name and number. In these cases the page names are arranged so that every battalion has a unique number wherever possible. For example:

* [[1/28th Battalion, London Regiment, British Army]] was previously known as "28th Battalion, London Regiment".
* [[2/28th Battalion, London Regiment, British Army]] was absorbed by 1/28th in November 1915 and no longer had a separate identity or existence.
* [[3/28th Battalion, London Regiment, British Army]] changed its number to 2/28th when the original 2/28th ceased to exist.

The London Regiment has been given an intermediate administrative level using the [[identity]] type. These identities have only names, but the battalions have only numbers, and both are followed by the name "London Regiment". For example, this is part of the hierarchy:

* [[London Regiment, British Army]]
** [[Poplar and Stepney Rifles, London Regiment, British Army]]
*** [[1/17th Battalion, London Regiment, British Army]]
*** [[2/17th Battalion, London Regiment, British Army]]
*** [[3/17th Battalion, London Regiment, British Army]]

==== Full names ====

Every British infantry battalion should have at least one name entered in unit_name1 in {{tl|infobox military unit}}. The most useful source for full names is {{Cite James}}. We currently use the names given by James but omitting "The" and "T.F.". The forms to use for the regiment name are shown in the table at [[British units in World War I#Infantry regiments]]. The battalion name should include all extra words in brackets both before and after the regiment name. The Monthly Army List also gives full names of all infantry battalions but in a slightly different form from James.

Some examples:

{| class="wikitable"
!Page Name
!Full Name
|-
|[[1st Battalion, Argyll and Sutherland Highlanders, British Army]]
|1st Battalion Princess Louise's (Argyll and Sutherland Highlanders)
|-
|[[3rd Battalion, Lancashire Fusiliers, British Army]]
|3rd (Reserve) Battalion Lancashire Fusiliers
|-
|[[10th Battalion, Lincolnshire Regiment, British Army]]
|10th (Service) Battalion Lincolnshire Regiment (Grimsby)
|-
|[[11th Battalion, Leicestershire Regiment, British Army]]
|11th Battalion Leicestershire Regiment (Pioneers)
|-
|[[6th Battalion, Yorkshire Regiment, British Army]]
|6th (Service) Battalion Alexandra, Princess of Wales's Own (Yorkshire Regiment)
|}

Some infantry battalions were converted to pioneer battalions during the war. When this happened, "(Pioneers)" was usually added to the end of the name, after the regiment name, although this isn't always shown in James.

===== Regular Army battalions =====

Pre-war Regular Army battalions had simple names that didn't usually change. Full names are as shown in James. Names and branches of these battalions can also be confirmed by the Monthly Army List or by Hart's Annual Army List.

===== Special Reserve battalions =====

Special Reserve battalions were mostly created in 1908 and kept the same names. These are as shown in James, typically in these forms, followed by the full name of the regiment:

* 3rd (Reserve) Battalion
* 4th (Extra Reserve) Battalion

The Monthly Army List puts '(Reserve)' after the name but we currently follow James's practice of putting it before 'Battalion'.

===== Territorial Force battalions =====

Full names from 30 January 1915 onwards are shown in James.<ref>{{Cite WOI|258|January|1915}} added the fractional numbers 1/, 2/ and 3/. These and subsequent changes are shown in James.</ref> First line battalions can be assumed to have the same name omitting "1/" before this date, and this might be confirmed by the Monthly Army List of Hart's Annual. Second and third line units that existed before this date can have complicated name histories between August 1914 and January 1915 that are not shown in James, and the official naming rules were not always followed in practice. We need more information (especially from distribution lists and strength returns) before we can decide definitive conventions in these cases.

===== Kitchener Army battalions =====

These battalions were raised directly by the War Office as part of Kitchener's New Armies (each of these armies was known for short as K1, K2 and so on). The battalions had numbers as part of their parent regiments from the start of their existence. Complete name histories are probably shown in James.

===== Pals battalions =====

The Pals battalions, officially known as locally raised battalions, were recruited in certain places by local authorities or other organisations or individuals, who were responsible for funding, training and administration of the battalions until they were later taken over by the War Office and added to the New Armies. These battalions were part of named infantry regiments from the start of their existence but did not always have numbers. James shows complete name histories from 3 December 1914 onwards.<ref>{{Cite WOI|28|December|1914}} first ordered these battalions to be numbered. These numbers and subsequent name changes are shown in James.</ref> Before this date, they only had names, which are shown in various instructions from the War Office.

These battalions also had unofficial but commonly used nicknames. These nicknames should be shown in the alternate_unit_names parameter in {{tl|infobox military unit}} and should also be redirects. For example, [[Grimsby Chums]] redirects to [[10th Battalion, Lincolnshire Regiment, British Army]]. We don't yet have a definitive list of these nicknames.

===== Training Reserve battalions =====

These were orignally raised as reserve battalions of the New Army (both the Kitchener and Pals battalions described above). They have complicated name histories because many of them changed regiments once or twice and were Training Reserve battalions for some of their existence. Their name histories are mostly found in James but with a few possible errors and ambiguities.

===== Composite battalions =====

Sometimes battalions were temporarily merged and given a new name in which the numbers of both battalions were separated with a slash. These should not be confused with line numbers of Territorial battalions. For example, [[5/6th Battalion, Royal Scots, British Army]] was a composite formed from 5th Battalion and 6th Battalion, not the fifth line of 6th Battalion. The proper form, to be used in the infobox, is "5th/6th" but page names always use the form "5/6th".

== Volunteer Training Corps ==

Pages names will be based on pre-1918 Volunteer regiment names to disambiguate the units from pre-1908 Volunteer battalions. They will usually be in this form:

* [[Hampshire Volunteer Regiment, British]]
* [[3rd Battalion, Hampshire Volunteer Regiment, British]]

Full name history in unit_name1 etc. in {{tl|infobox military unit}} should also show later names where battalions were affiliated with regular British Army regiments. These will usually be in the form "3rd Volunteer Battalion Hampshire Regiment". Full regiment names should be used in these cases, as with other battalions of the regiment (see [[#Infantry]] above).

== Machine gun units ==

Pages names are usually in these forms:

* [[138th Machine Gun Company, British Army]]
* [[1st Machine Gun Squadron, British Army]]
* [[46th Battalion, Machine Gun Corps, British Army]]
* [[1st Battalion, Guards Machine Gun Regiment, British Army]]
* [[1st Motor Machine Gun Battery, British Army]]
* [[1st Motor Machine Gun Brigade, British Army]]

Full names of Guards machine gun battalions are shown in James.

Full names of Machine Gun Corps units are probably the same as page names but without the suffix ", British Army", but we don't yet have a canonical source for their full names.

== Cavalry ==

We now have pages for more or less all British cavalry units.

The administrative [[corps (administrative)|corps]] of cavalry are:

* [[Household Cavalry, British Army]]
* [[Corps of Dragoons, British Army]]
* [[Corps of Hussars, British Army]]
* [[Corps of Lancers, British Army]]

=== Regular cavalry regiments ===

Page names should omit names in brackets and consist only of:

* ordinal number
* type of regiment
* suffix ", British Army"

Examples:

* [[1st Life Guards, British Army]]
* [[1st Dragoon Guards, British Army]]
* [[1st Dragoons, British Army]] [not the same regiment as the above]
* [[3rd Hussars, British Army]]
* [[17th Lancers, British Army]]

[[Royal Horse Guards, British Army]] is the only one that doesn't have a number.

Full names are as shown in James.

Regiment names didn't change during the war.

Reserve cavalry regiments that existed at the start of the war are in the form:

* Page name: [[1st Reserve Cavalry Regiment, British Army]]
* Full name: 1st Reserve Cavalry Regiment

In 1917, the original reserve regiments were merged into new reserve regiments which had a completely different composition from the old ones. The page names for these new regiments use "(1917)" to disambiguate them from the old regiments:

* [[1st Reserve Cavalry Regiment (1917), British Army]]

=== Yeomanry regiments ===

Yeomanry regiments were all Territorial, usually with three lines. The regiment name is represented as an [[identity]] above the three lines but below the administrative corps. For example:

* Corps: [[Corps of Lancers, British Army]]
** Identity: [[Lincolnshire Yeomanry, British Army]]
*** Unit: [[1/1st Lincolnshire Yeomanry, British Army]]
*** Unit: [[2/1st Lincolnshire Yeomanry, British Army]]
*** Unit: [[3/1st Lincolnshire Yeomanry, British Army]]

Page names for the regimental identity are the name shown in James in capitals, omitting any lower case words in brackets. The only exceptions are:

* [[Sherwood Rangers, British Army]] and [[South Nottinghamshire Hussars, British Army]], which use only the words shown by James in brackets in order to dismbiguate them, because the capitalised words are shown as "Nottinghamshire Yeomanry" in both cases.
* [[Glasgow Yeomanry, British Army]], because the title shown in James at the start of the section was not granted until 1960.

Full names are as shown in James, including both capitalised words and any lower case words in brackets. The Glasgow Yeomanry use the full name in 1914, shown in the note at the end of the entry on page 19.

Names for the actual units consist of line number and regiment number followed by the regimental names defined above. For example:

{|class="wikitable"
!Page name
!Full name
|-
|[[Montgomeryshire Yeomanry, British Army]]
|Montgomeryshire Yeomanry
|-
|[[1/1st Montgomeryshire Yeomanry, British Army]]
|1/1st Montgomeryshire Yeomanry
|-
|[[Sherwood Rangers, British Army]]
|Nottinghamshire Yeomanry (Sherwood Rangers)
|-
|[[2/1st Sherwood Rangers, British Army]]
|2/1st Nottinghamshire Yeomanry (Sherwood Rangers)
|-
|[[1/1st Lancashire Hussars Yeomanry, British Army]]
|1/1st Lancashire Hussars Yeomanry
|-
|[[3/1st Yorkshire Hussars Yeomanry, British Army]]
|3/1st Yorkshire Hussars Yeomanry (Alexandra, Princess of Wales's Own)
|}

=== Yeomanry regiments that became infantry battalions ===

Part-way through the war, some yeomanry cavalry regiments were permanently dismounted, converted to infantry and became battalions of existing infantry regiments, although their old identities persisted in the battalion's full name and uniform.

In these cases, the unit's history should be split between two pages: one for its career as cavalry and one for its career as infantry. For example, [[1/1st Lovat's Scouts Yeomanry, British Army]] and [[1/2nd Lovat's Scouts Yeomanry, British Army]] became [[10th Battalion, Cameron Highlanders, British Army]].

Yeomanry regiments that became machine gun battalions, or that were merged into cyclist regiments or battalions, should be treated similarly.

=== Corps cavalry regiments ===

In 1916, divisional cavalry squadrons were removed to army corps level and formed into regiments. In some cases, a corps cavalry regiment was identical to a named cavalry regiment, having all the squadrons of that regiment and no squadrons from other regiments. In these cases, the corps cavalry regiment does not have a separate page, and all information about it goes on the same page as the named regiment.

Some corps cavalry regiments were not identical to named regiments and have their own pages. Page names are the name of the corps followed by "Cavalry Regiment" followed by the suffix ", British Army". For example:

* [[III Corps Cavalry Regiment, British Army]]
* [[XIV Corps Cavalry Regiment, British Army]]

These regiments usually have squadrons of one or more named regiments as tactical children.

=== Squadrons ===

Some squadrons have their own pages because they operated separately from their parent regiments. This is usually because they were divisional cavalry squadrons, or part of corps cavalry regiments that were not identical with one named regiment. Page names for squadrons are usually the capital letter that identifies the squadron, followed by the word "Squadron" and a comma, followed by the page name of the parent regiment. This is true for regular, yeomanry and Special Reserve cavalry. For example:

* [[B Squadron, 15th Hussars, British Army]]
* [[F Squadron, North Irish Horse, British Army]]
* [[A Squadron, 1/1st Hampshire Yeomanry, British Army]]

Squadron letters should not have quotation marks around them.

=== Regular cavalry brigades ===

The cavalry brigades of the regular army were numbered 1st to 9th and did not change their names during the war. Page names are in the form [[1st Cavalry Brigade, British Army]].

During the post-war occupation of Germany, the cavalry were reorganised into the Rhine Cavalry Brigades, with names instead of numbers:

* [[Dragoon Brigade, British Army]]
* [[Hussar Brigade, British Army]]
* [[Lancer Brigade, British Army]]

=== Yeomanry mounted brigades ===

These often have very complicated name histories. Line numbers and geographical names are preferred for page names where possible because these are the least ambiguous names. For example:

* [[1/1st North Midland Mounted Brigade, British Army]]
* [[2/1st Scottish Horse Mounted Brigade, British Army]]
* [[2/2nd South Midland Mounted Brigade, British Army]]

Note that the numbers in these cases qualify the names and are not unique on their own.

Numbers and the words "Mounted Brigade" are used only for brigades that never had geographical names. For example:

* [[1st Mounted Brigade, British Army]]
* [[5th Mounted Brigade, British Army]]

These numbers and names were often used at other times by other brigades, so pages will need disambiguation information using {{tl|About}}.

== Artillery ==

We don't yet have pages for most artillery units, or a canonical source for their correct full names. These are likely conventions for their page names.

=== Field artillery ===

Pages will usually only go down to brigade level because this is equivalent to an infantry battalion. Page names will probably be in the form:

* [[34th Brigade, Royal Field Artillery, British Army]]

But it's not certain if we should use ordinal or cardinal numbers.

Brigades were sometimes known by roman numerals in official documents, but this form is not used in page names because it's too long and confusing.

Pages for Territorial brigades will usually be under their latest names, which are in the same form as above. Line numbers and regional names are not used in page names unless the brigade was disbanded before being renumbered.

Territorial field artillery brigades and divisional ammunition columns will probably be grouped into [[identity|identities]] by territorial region:

* [[North Midland Royal Field Artillery, British Army]]
* [[East Lancashire Royal Field Artillery, British Army]]

=== Horse artillery ===

We now have pages for all horse artillery units that have war diaries. Pages go down to battery level because these operated independently of their parent artillery brigades and were attached to different cavalry brigades. Page names for regular units are usually in the form:

* [[J Battery, Royal Horse Artillery, British Army]]
* [[3rd Brigade, Royal Horse Artillery, British Army]]

Territorial units usually have a line number and a geographical name:

* [[1/1st Leicestershire Battery, Royal Horse Artillery, British Army]]
* [[2/1st Leicestershire Battery, Royal Horse Artillery, British Army]]

The [[Honourable Artillery Company (Artillery), British Army|Honourable Artillery Company]] has a number and a letter for each battery:

* [[1/A Battery Honourable Artillery Company (Artillery), British Army]]
* [[2/A Battery Honourable Artillery Company (Artillery), British Army]]
* [[2/B Battery Honourable Artillery Company (Artillery), British Army]]

=== Heavy artillery ===

Pages will probably go down to battery level. Names are likely to be:

* [[9th Heavy Battery, Royal Garrison Artillery, British Army]]
* [[1st Siege Battery, Royal Garrison Artillery, British Army]]

=== Trench mortars ===

Page names are likely to be in the form:

* [[138th Brigade Trench Mortar Battery, British Army]] [for light mortars]
* [[X.46 Trench Mortar Battery, British Army]] [for divisional heavy and medium mortars]

=== Ammunition columns ===

Divisional ammunition column page names will be in similar form to division names:

* [[46th Divisional Ammunition Column, British Army]]

Brigade ammunition columns will not normally have their own pages because they are sub-units of battalion-level units.

== Engineers ==

We don't yet have pages for engineer units, or a canonical source for their correct full names. These are likely conventions for page names for divisional engineers.

* [[56th Field Company, Royal Engineers, British Army]]
* [[42nd Divisional Signals Company, British Army]]

Territorial field companies should be under their latest names, which will usually be in the same form as above. Page names should omit their earlier names. For example, [[427th Field Company, Royal Engineers, British Army]], '''not''' "427th (1/1st East Lancashire) Field Company, Royal Engineers, British Army".

Territorial field companies changed their names at least once during the war. All names should be shown in the infobox, if known.

Territorial field and signals companies will probably be grouped into [[identity|identities]] by territorial region:

* [[North Midland Royal Engineers, British Army]]
* [[East Lancashire Royal Engineers, British Army]]

== Medical units ==

We don't yet have pages for medical units, or a canonical source for their correct full names. These are likely conventions for their page names.

Page names should usually omit "Royal Army Medical Corps", but this may be part of the full names listed in the infobox.

Regular units simply have number, type and suffix:

* [[7th Field Ambulance, British Army]]
* [[No 1 Casualty Clearing Station, British Army]]

Territorial field ambulances were not renumbered into the regular sequence, so their page names have to keep line numbers and regional names:

* [[1/1st North Midland Field Ambulance, British Army]]
* [[2/1st East Lancashire Field Ambulance, British Army]]

Territorial field ambulances will probably be grouped into identities by territorial region:

* [[North Midland Royal Army Medical Corps, British Army]]
* [[East Lancashire Royal Army Medical Corps, British Army]]

Names of hospitals varied. The form "No 1" is often preferred to ordinal numbers.

== Royal Navy and Royal Marines infantry ==

Page names for navy infantry battalions of the Royal Naval Division use only the name, not the number:

* [[Anson Battalion, British]]
* [[Drake Battalion, British]]

The original Royal Marines battalions of the Royal Naval Division are under their names:

* [[Chatham Battalion, Royal Marines, British]]
* [[Deal Battalion, Royal Marines, British]]
* [[Plymouth Battalion, Royal Marines, British]]
* [[Portsmouth Battalion, Royal Marines, British]]

The amalgamated Royal Marines battalions are under their later numbers, not their names:

* [[1st Battalion, Royal Marines, British]]
* [[2nd Battalion, Royal Marines, British]]

Brigades in the Royal Naval Division use numbers in the Army sequence if they had them:

* [[188th Infantry Brigade, British]]

Brigades that weren't renumbered in the Army sequence, or that don't have a simple lineage with a numbered brigade, use older names:

* [[1st Royal Naval Brigade, British]]
* [[Royal Marine Brigade, British]]

== Royal Navy ships ==

Not yet decided but likely to be in the form [[HMS Dreadnought]].

== Air units ==

Not yet decided.

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FAQ and help

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== What do I do if... ==
==== Someone was in more than one unit ====
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=== Citing military records and historians ===

Specific reference templates have been added for some common sources. More will be added later. These can be used in footnotes with <nowiki><ref></nowiki> tags or in the body of the page.

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Links to non-existent pages are created the same way as links to already existing pages. For example, adding [[New page name]] in the wiki editor will create a new page link to the page "New page name".

If there isn't already a new page link to the page you want to create, you can always add such a link yourself. You would add the new page link typically in a related page, an index page or your own user page.

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[[:Category:Citation templates]] lists templates that you can use to cite widely used sources more easily. We now have the Wikipedia citation templates such as {{tl|Cite book}}, which are also listed in [[:Category:Wikipedia citation templates]]. These templates automatically create COinS metadata which can be captured by reference management software such as Zotero. If you're using Zotero, you can set it to export references as Wikipedia citation templates, so you can drag and drop references from your Zotero library straight into wiki pages that you're editing.

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Historian and palaeographer. I run [http://www.differenthand.ltd.uk Different Hand Ltd], doing manuscript transcription, XML markup, research assistance and related services.
My PhD thesis and published work are on horses and cavalry in the English Civil War. I got into First World War research through tracing my great-grandad, who was in [[1/5th Battalion, Lincolnshire Regiment, British Army|1/5th Battalion Lincolnshire Regiment]]. I was a moderator at Your Archives and used to blog at Investigations of a Dog.

==To do list==

* separate citation templates for ACI and WOI: they have different numbering and dating conventions
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Australian units in World War I

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The armed forces of the Commonwealth of Australia consisted of two services: the Australian Army and the Royal Australian Navy.

[https://www.awm.gov.au/histories/first_world_war/ Official History of Australia in the War of 1914–1918] at the Australian War Memorial.

See also [[naming conventions for Australian units]].

== Australian Army ==

Known as "Commonwealth Military Forces" or "Australian Military Forces". Formed after federation and governed by 1903 Defence Act, which made it illegal for a standing force of infantry to exist, and for conscripts to serve overseas. The head of the Army was the Chief of General Staff. All branches of the army were under the [[Australian General Staff]].

Before the First World War, the two branches were:

* Permanent Force
* Citizen Military Force

During the First World War, two expeditionary forces were raised. These were effectively new branches of the army:

* Australian Imperial Force
* [[Australian Naval and Military Expeditionary Force]]

See also [https://www.awm.gov.au/atwar/structure/one-army/ Australian War Memorial: One army, two armies?] and [[Wikipedia:History of the Australian Army]].

The main administrative corps and departments of the home forces were:

* [[Australian Army Medical Corps]] (had Permanent and Citizen sections)
* [[Australian Army Service Corps]] (had Permanent and Citizen sections)
* [[Australian Army Veterinary Corps]] (had Permanent and Citizen sections)
* [[Australian Engineer and Railway Staff Corps]]
* [[Australian Intelligence Corps]]
* [[Australian Volunteer Automobile Corps]]
* [[Royal Australian Engineers]] (Permanent Force only)
* [[Royal Australian Field Artillery]] (Permanent Force only)
* [[Royal Australian Garrison Artillery]] (Permanent Force only)
* [[Australian Chaplains' Department]]
* [[Australian Ordnance Department]]
* [[Australian Pay Department]]
* [[Australian Army Nursing Service]]

Australia was divided into military districts, one for each state of the federation:

* [[1st Military District, Australian]] (Queensland)
* [[2nd Military District, Australian]] (New South Wales)
* [[3rd Military District, Australian]] (Victoria)
* [[4th Military District, Australian]] (South Australia)
* [[5th Military District, Australian]] (Western Australia)
* [[6th Military District, Australian]] (Tasmania)

=== Australian Imperial Force ===

Early in the war this was sometimes known as the Expeditionary Force, or large Expeditionary Force, but it's more commonly known by its official title, Australian Imperial Force. This was an all-volunteer force raised for overseas service in the First World War. Legally separate from the Permanent Force and Citizen Military Force (see below) to avoid the limitations imposed by the 1903 Defence Act, but organized by the exising general staff, and many officers and soldiers from the Permanent and Citizen forces volunteered to transfer to the AIF. Disbanded 1 April 1921 but Citizen Military Force inherited the names of its battalions and divisions.

See also [[Wikipedia:First Australian Imperial Force]].

==== Divisions and corps ====

*[[Australian and New Zealand Army Corps]]
*[[I ANZAC Corps]]
*[[II ANZAC Corps]]
*[[Australian Corps]]

Australian units also formed a large part of [[Desert Mounted Corps]] (which country did the corps headquarters belong to?).

*[[New Zealand and Australian Division]]
*[[1st Australian Division]]
*[[2nd Australian Division]]
*[[3rd Australian Division]]
*[[4th Australian Division]]
*[[5th Australian Division]]
*[[6th Australian Division]] (started forming in 1917 but never completed)
*[[Australian Mounted Division]]
*[[ANZAC Mounted Division]]

==== Infantry battalions and brigades ====

As part of [[1st Infantry Brigade, Australian Imperial Force (AIF)]]
* [[1st Battalion, Australian Imperial Force (AIF)]]
* [[2nd Battalion, Australian Imperial Force (AIF)]]
* [[3rd Battalion, Australian Imperial Force (AIF)]]
* [[4th Battalion, Australian Imperial Force (AIF)]]

As part of [[2nd Infantry Brigade, Australian Imperial Force (AIF)]]
* [[5th Battalion, Australian Imperial Force (AIF)]]
* [[6th Battalion, Australian Imperial Force (AIF)]]
* [[7th Battalion, Australian Imperial Force (AIF)]]
* [[8th Battalion, Australian Imperial Force (AIF)]]

As part of [[3rd Infantry Brigade, Australian Imperial Force (AIF)]]
* [[9th Battalion, Australian Imperial Force (AIF)]]
* [[10th Battalion, Australian Imperial Force (AIF)]]
* [[11th Battalion, Australian Imperial Force (AIF)]]
* [[12th Battalion, Australian Imperial Force (AIF)]]

As part of [[4th Infantry Brigade, Australian Imperial Force (AIF)]]
* [[13th Battalion, Australian Imperial Force (AIF)]]
* [[14th Battalion, Australian Imperial Force (AIF)]]
* [[15th Battalion, Australian Imperial Force (AIF)]]
* [[16th Battalion, Australian Imperial Force (AIF)]]

As part of [[5th Infantry Brigade, Australian Imperial Force (AIF)]]
* [[17th Battalion, Australian Imperial Force (AIF)]]
* [[18th Battalion, Australian Imperial Force (AIF)]]
* [[19th Battalion, Australian Imperial Force (AIF)]]
* [[20th Battalion, Australian Imperial Force (AIF)]]

As part of [[6th Infantry Brigade, Australian Imperial Force (AIF)]]
* [[21st Battalion, Australian Imperial Force (AIF)]]
* [[22nd Battalion, Australian Imperial Force (AIF)]]
* [[23rd Battalion, Australian Imperial Force (AIF)]]
* [[24th Battalion, Australian Imperial Force (AIF)]]
* [[61st Battalion, Australian Imperial Force (AIF)]] (never saw active service)

As part of [[7th Infantry Brigade, Australian Imperial Force (AIF)]]
* [[25th Battalion, Australian Imperial Force (AIF)]]
* [[26th Battalion, Australian Imperial Force (AIF)]]
* [[27th Battalion, Australian Imperial Force (AIF)]]
* [[28th Battalion, Australian Imperial Force (AIF)]]

As part of [[8th Infantry Brigade, Australian Imperial Force (AIF)]]
* [[29th Battalion, Australian Imperial Force (AIF)]]
* [[30th Battalion, Australian Imperial Force (AIF)]]
* [[31st Battalion, Australian Imperial Force (AIF)]]
* [[32nd Battalion, Australian Imperial Force (AIF)]]

As part of [[9th Infantry Brigade, Australian Imperial Force (AIF)]]
* [[33rd Battalion, Australian Imperial Force (AIF)]]
* [[34th Battalion, Australian Imperial Force (AIF)]]
* [[35th Battalion, Australian Imperial Force (AIF)]]
* [[36th Battalion, Australian Imperial Force (AIF)]]

As part of [[10th Infantry Brigade, Australian Imperial Force (AIF)]]
* [[37th Battalion, Australian Imperial Force (AIF)]]
* [[38th Battalion, Australian Imperial Force (AIF)]]
* [[39th Battalion, Australian Imperial Force (AIF)]]
* [[40th Battalion, Australian Imperial Force (AIF)]]

As part of [[11th Infantry Brigade, Australian Imperial Force (AIF)]]
* [[41st Battalion, Australian Imperial Force (AIF)]]
* [[42nd Battalion, Australian Imperial Force (AIF)]]
* [[43rd Battalion, Australian Imperial Force (AIF)]]
* [[44th Battalion, Australian Imperial Force (AIF)]]

As part of [[12th Infantry Brigade, Australian Imperial Force (AIF)]]
* [[45th Battalion, Australian Imperial Force (AIF)]]
* [[46th Battalion, Australian Imperial Force (AIF)]]
* [[47th Battalion, Australian Imperial Force (AIF)]]
* [[48th Battalion, Australian Imperial Force (AIF)]]

As part of [[13th Infantry Brigade, Australian Imperial Force (AIF)]]
* [[49th Battalion, Australian Imperial Force (AIF)]]
* [[50th Battalion, Australian Imperial Force (AIF)]]
* [[51st Battalion, Australian Imperial Force (AIF)]]
* [[52nd Battalion, Australian Imperial Force (AIF)]]

As part of [[14th Infantry Brigade, Australian Imperial Force (AIF)]]
* [[53rd Battalion, Australian Imperial Force (AIF)]]
* [[54th Battalion, Australian Imperial Force (AIF)]]
* [[55th Battalion, Australian Imperial Force (AIF)]]
* [[56th Battalion, Australian Imperial Force (AIF)]]

As part of [[15th Infantry Brigade, Australian Imperial Force (AIF)]]
* [[57th Battalion, Australian Imperial Force (AIF)]]
* [[58th Battalion, Australian Imperial Force (AIF)]]
* [[59th Battalion, Australian Imperial Force (AIF)]]
* [[60th Battalion, Australian Imperial Force (AIF)]]

Unknown brigade in the planned 6th Australian Division:

* [[62nd Battalion, Australian Imperial Force (AIF)]] (never saw active service)

As part of [[Overseas Training Brigade, Australian Imperial Force (AIF)]]
* [[No 1 Battalion, Overseas Training Brigade, Australian Imperial Force (AIF)]]
* [[No 2 Battalion, Overseas Training Brigade, Australian Imperial Force (AIF)]]
* [[No 3 Battalion, Overseas Training Brigade, Australian Imperial Force (AIF)]]
* [[No 4 Battalion, Overseas Training Brigade, Australian Imperial Force (AIF)]]

Training brigades:

* [[1st Training Brigade, Australian Imperial Force (AIF)]]
* [[2nd Training Brigade, Australian Imperial Force (AIF)]]
* [[3rd Training Brigade, Australian Imperial Force (AIF)]]

Training battalions that need matching to training brigades:

* [[1st Training Battalion, Australian Imperial Force (AIF)]]
* [[2nd Training Battalion, Australian Imperial Force (AIF)]]
* [[3rd Training Battalion, Australian Imperial Force (AIF)]]
* [[4th Training Battalion, Australian Imperial Force (AIF)]]
* [[5th Training Battalion, Australian Imperial Force (AIF)]]
* [[8th Training Battalion, Australian Imperial Force (AIF)]]
* [[9th Training Battalion, Australian Imperial Force (AIF)]]
* [[10th Training Battalion, Australian Imperial Force (AIF)]]
* [[11th Training Battalion, Australian Imperial Force (AIF)]]
* [[12th Training Battalion, Australian Imperial Force (AIF)]]
* [[13th Training Battalion, Australian Imperial Force (AIF)]]
* [[14th Training Battalion, Australian Imperial Force (AIF)]]
* [[15th Training Battalion, Australian Imperial Force (AIF)]]

==== Mounted units and brigades ====

* [[13th Light Horse Regiment, Australian Imperial Force (AIF)]] (sometimes part of I ANZAC Mounted Regiment)
* [[II ANZAC (XXII Corps) Mounted Regiment, Australian Imperial Force (AIF)]]

As part of [[1st Light Horse Brigade, Australian Imperial Force (AIF)]]
* [[1st Light Horse Regiment, Australian Imperial Force (AIF)]]
* [[2nd Light Horse Regiment, Australian Imperial Force (AIF)]]
* [[3rd Light Horse Regiment, Australian Imperial Force (AIF)]]
As part of [[2nd Light Horse Brigade, Australian Imperial Force (AIF)]]
* [[5th Light Horse Regiment, Australian Imperial Force (AIF)]]
* [[6th Light Horse Regiment, Australian Imperial Force (AIF)]]
* [[7th Light Horse Regiment, Australian Imperial Force (AIF)]]
As part of [[3rd Light Horse Brigade, Australian Imperial Force (AIF)]]
* [[8th Light Horse Regiment, Australian Imperial Force (AIF)]]
* [[9th Light Horse Regiment, Australian Imperial Force (AIF)]]
* [[10th Light Horse Regiment, Australian Imperial Force (AIF)]]
As part of [[4th Light Horse Brigade, Australian Imperial Force (AIF)]]
* [[4th Light Horse Regiment, Australian Imperial Force (AIF)]]
* [[11th Light Horse Regiment, Australian Imperial Force (AIF)]]
* [[12th Light Horse Regiment, Australian Imperial Force (AIF)]]
As part of [[5th Light Horse Brigade, Australian Imperial Force (AIF)]]
* [[14th Light Horse Regiment, Australian Imperial Force (AIF)]]
* [[15th Light Horse Regiment, Australian Imperial Force (AIF)]]

As part of [[Imperial Camel Brigade]] (a brigade-sized formation including Australian, New Zealand, British and Indian units, administratively under the [[Imperial Camel Corps]]):

* [[1st Battalion Imperial Camel Corps]]
* [[3rd Battalion Imperial Camel Corps]]
* [[4th Battalion Imperial Camel Corps]]

Cyclists:

* [[I ANZAC Corps Cyclist Battalion]]
* [[II ANZAC Corps Cyclist Battalion]]
* [[Australian Corps Cyclist Battalion]]
* [[2nd Australian Divisional Cyclist Company]]
* [[5th Australian Divisional Cyclist Company]]

==== Machine gun units ====

These battalions probably attached to the Australian divisions with the same number:

* [[1st Machine Gun Battalion, Australian Imperial Force (AIF)]]
* [[2nd Machine Gun Battalion, Australian Imperial Force (AIF)]]
* [[3rd Machine Gun Battalion, Australian Imperial Force (AIF)]]
* [[4th Machine Gun Battalion, Australian Imperial Force (AIF)]]
* [[5th Machine Gun Battalion, Australian Imperial Force (AIF)]]

These companies were probably attached to the AIF infantry brigades with the same number:

* [[1st Machine Gun Company, Australian Imperial Force (AIF)]]
* [[2nd Machine Gun Company, Australian Imperial Force (AIF)]]
* [[3rd Machine Gun Company, Australian Imperial Force (AIF)]]
* [[4th Machine Gun Company, Australian Imperial Force (AIF)]]
* [[5th Machine Gun Company, Australian Imperial Force (AIF)]]
* [[6th Machine Gun Company, Australian Imperial Force (AIF)]]
* [[7th Machine Gun Company, Australian Imperial Force (AIF)]]
* [[8th Machine Gun Company, Australian Imperial Force (AIF)]]
* [[9th Machine Gun Company, Australian Imperial Force (AIF)]]
* [[10th Machine Gun Company, Australian Imperial Force (AIF)]]
* [[11th Machine Gun Company, Australian Imperial Force (AIF)]]
* [[12th Machine Gun Company, Australian Imperial Force (AIF)]]
* [[13th Machine Gun Company, Australian Imperial Force (AIF)]]
* [[14th Machine Gun Company, Australian Imperial Force (AIF)]]
* [[15th Machine Gun Company, Australian Imperial Force (AIF)]]

These companies were probably attached to divisions:

* [[21st Machine Gun Company, Australian Imperial Force (AIF)]]
* [[22nd Machine Gun Company, Australian Imperial Force (AIF)]]
* [[23rd Machine Gun Company, Australian Imperial Force (AIF)]]
* [[24th Machine Gun Company, Australian Imperial Force (AIF)]]
* [[25th Machine Gun Company, Australian Imperial Force (AIF)]]

These were mounted units, probably attached to light horse:

* [[1st Machine Gun Squadron, Australian Imperial Force (AIF)]]
* [[2nd Machine Gun Squadron, Australian Imperial Force (AIF)]]
* [[3rd Machine Gun Squadron, Australian Imperial Force (AIF)]]
* [[4th Machine Gun Squadron, Australian Imperial Force (AIF)]]

Other machine gun units:

* [[1st Armoured Car Section, Australian Imperial Force (AIF)]]
* [[Machine Gun Training Depot, Australian Imperial Force (AIF)]]

==== Medical, Dental & Nursing ====

* [[1st Light Horse Field Ambulance, Australian Imperial Force (AIF)]]
* [[2nd Light Horse Field Ambulance, Australian Imperial Force (AIF)]]
* [[3rd Light Horse Field Ambulance, Australian Imperial Force (AIF)]]
* [[4th Light Horse Field Ambulance, Australian Imperial Force (AIF)]]
* [[5th Light Horse Field Ambulance, Australian Imperial Force (AIF)]]
* [[1st Field Ambulance, Australian Imperial Force (AIF)]]
* [[2nd Field Ambulance, Australian Imperial Force (AIF)]]
* [[3rd Field Ambulance, Australian Imperial Force (AIF)]]
* [[4th Field Ambulance, Australian Imperial Force (AIF)]]
* [[5th Field Ambulance, Australian Imperial Force (AIF)]]
* [[6th Field Ambulance, Australian Imperial Force (AIF)]]
* [[7th Field Ambulance, Australian Imperial Force (AIF)]]
* [[8th Field Ambulance, Australian Imperial Force (AIF)]]
* [[9th Field Ambulance, Australian Imperial Force (AIF)]]
* [[10th Field Ambulance, Australian Imperial Force (AIF)]]
* [[11th Field Ambulance, Australian Imperial Force (AIF)]]
* [[12th Field Ambulance, Australian Imperial Force (AIF)]]
* [[13th Field Ambulance, Australian Imperial Force (AIF)]]
* [[14th Field Ambulance, Australian Imperial Force (AIF)]]
* [[15th Field Ambulance, Australian Imperial Force (AIF)]]
* [[16th Field Ambulance, Australian Imperial Force (AIF)]]
* [[Australian Camel Field Ambulance]]
* [[B Australian Divisional Ambulance]]
* [[No 1 Casualty Clearing Station, Australian Imperial Force (AIF)]]
* [[No 2 Casualty Clearing Station, Australian Imperial Force (AIF)]]
* [[No 3 Casualty Clearing Station, Australian Imperial Force (AIF)]]
* [[No 1 Australian General Hospital]]
* [[No 2 Australian General Hospital]]
* [[No 3 Australian General Hospital]]
* [[No 14 Australian General Hospital]]
* [[No 1 Australian Dermatological Hospital, Bulford]]
* [[No 1 Australian Stationary Hospital]]
* [[No 2 Australian Stationary Hospital]]
* [[No 1 Australian Auxiliary Hospital, Harefield Park]]
* [[No 2 Australian Auxiliary Hospital, Southall]]
* [[No 3 Australian Auxiliary Hospital, Dartford]]
* [[Australian Flying Corps Hospital, Tetbury]]

Also the [[Australian Army Nursing Service]] and [[Australian Voluntary Hospital]].

==== Artillery ====

See also [https://www.awm.gov.au/collection/AWM4/13/ list of artillery war diaries].

===== Field artillery brigades =====

* [[1st Field Artillery Brigade, Australian Imperial Force (AIF)]]
* [[2nd Field Artillery Brigade, Australian Imperial Force (AIF)]]
* [[3rd Field Artillery Brigade, Australian Imperial Force (AIF)]]
* [[4th Field Artillery Brigade, Australian Imperial Force (AIF)]]
* [[5th Field Artillery Brigade, Australian Imperial Force (AIF)]]
* [[6th Field Artillery Brigade, Australian Imperial Force (AIF)]]
* [[7th Field Artillery Brigade, Australian Imperial Force (AIF)]]
* [[8th Field Artillery Brigade, Australian Imperial Force (AIF)]]
* [[10th Field Artillery Brigade, Australian Imperial Force (AIF)]]
* [[11th Field Artillery Brigade, Australian Imperial Force (AIF)]]
* [[12th Field Artillery Brigade, Australian Imperial Force (AIF)]]
* [[13th Field Artillery Brigade, Australian Imperial Force (AIF)]]
* [[14th Field Artillery Brigade, Australian Imperial Force (AIF)]]
* [[15th Field Artillery Brigade, Australian Imperial Force (AIF)]]
* [[21st Field Artillery Brigade, Australian Imperial Force (AIF)]]
* [[22nd Field Artillery Brigade, Australian Imperial Force (AIF)]]
* [[24th Field Artillery Brigade, Australian Imperial Force (AIF)]]
* [[25th Field Artillery Brigade, Australian Imperial Force (AIF)]]
* [[Reserve Field Artillery Brigade, Australian Imperial Force (AIF)]]

===== Field artillery batteries =====

[http://www.diggerhistory.info/pages-conflicts-periods/ww1/1aif/artillery.htm List of brigade/battery relationships at Digger History].

* [[2nd Field Artillery Battery, Australian Imperial Force (AIF)]]
* [[3rd Field Artillery Battery, Australian Imperial Force (AIF)]]
* [[4th Field Artillery Battery, Australian Imperial Force (AIF)]]
* [[5th Field Artillery Battery, Australian Imperial Force (AIF)]]
* [[6th Field Artillery Battery, Australian Imperial Force (AIF)]]
* [[7th Field Artillery Battery, Australian Imperial Force (AIF)]]
* [[8th Field Artillery Battery, Australian Imperial Force (AIF)]]
* [[9th Field Artillery Battery, Australian Imperial Force (AIF)]]
* [[26th Field Artillery Battery, Australian Imperial Force (AIF)]]

===== Divisional ammunition columns =====

These were attached to the divisions they're named after.

* [[1st Australian Divisional Ammunition Column]]
* [[2nd Australian Divisional Ammunition Column]]
* [[3rd Australian Divisional Ammunition Column]]
* [[4th Australian Divisional Ammunition Column]]
* [[5th Australian Divisional Ammunition Column]]

===== Heavy artillery =====

* [[36th Australian Heavy Artillery Group]]
* [[2nd Siege Battery, Australian Imperial Force (AIF)]]
* [[Heavy Artillery Battery, 1st Australian Division]]
* [[1st Siege Battery Ammunition Column, Australian Imperial Force (AIF)]]
* [[2nd Siege Battery Ammunition Column, Australian Imperial Force (AIF)]]
* [[Heavy Artillery Training Depot, Australian Imperial Force (AIF)]]

===== Heavy and medium trench mortars =====

These were attached to divisions or corps.

* [[Australian Corps Heavy Trench Mortar Battery]]
* [[V1A Heavy Trench Mortar Battery, Australian Imperial Force (AIF)]]
* [[V2A Heavy Trench Mortar Battery, Australian Imperial Force (AIF)]]
* [[V4A Heavy Trench Mortar Battery, Australian Imperial Force (AIF)]]
* [[V5A Heavy Trench Mortar Battery, Australian Imperial Force (AIF)]]
* [[X2A Medium Trench Mortar Battery, Australian Imperial Force (AIF)]]
* [[Y2A Medium Trench Mortar Battery, Australian Imperial Force (AIF)]]
* [[Z2A Medium Trench Mortar Battery, Australian Imperial Force (AIF)]]
* [[X5A Medium Trench Mortar Battery, Australian Imperial Force (AIF)]]
* [[Y5A Medium Trench Mortar Battery, Australian Imperial Force (AIF)]]
* [[3rd Medium Trench Mortar Battery, Australian Imperial Force (AIF)]]
* [[4th Medium Trench Mortar Battery, Australian Imperial Force (AIF)]]
* [[5th Medium Trench Mortar Battery, Australian Imperial Force (AIF)]]
* [[6th Medium Trench Mortar Battery, Australian Imperial Force (AIF)]]
* [[7th Medium Trench Mortar Battery, Australian Imperial Force (AIF)]]
* [[8th Medium Trench Mortar Battery, Australian Imperial Force (AIF)]]
* [[9th Medium Trench Mortar Battery, Australian Imperial Force (AIF)]]

===== Light trench mortars =====

These were probably attached to the infantry brigades with the same number.

* [[1st Light Trench Mortar Battery, Australian Imperial Force (AIF)]]
* [[2nd Light Trench Mortar Battery, Australian Imperial Force (AIF)]]
* [[3rd Light Trench Mortar Battery, Australian Imperial Force (AIF)]]
* [[4th Light Trench Mortar Battery, Australian Imperial Force (AIF)]]
* [[5th Light Trench Mortar Battery, Australian Imperial Force (AIF)]]
* [[6th Light Trench Mortar Battery, Australian Imperial Force (AIF)]]
* [[7th Light Trench Mortar Battery, Australian Imperial Force (AIF)]]
* [[8th Light Trench Mortar Battery, Australian Imperial Force (AIF)]]
* [[9th Light Trench Mortar Battery, Australian Imperial Force (AIF)]]
* [[10th Light Trench Mortar Battery, Australian Imperial Force (AIF)]]
* [[11th Light Trench Mortar Battery, Australian Imperial Force (AIF)]]
* [[14th Light Trench Mortar Battery, Australian Imperial Force (AIF)]]
* [[15th Light Trench Mortar Battery, Australian Imperial Force (AIF)]]

==== Engineers, tunnelling and signals ====

* [[1st Pioneer Battalion, Australian Imperial Force (AIF)]]
* [[2nd Pioneer Battalion, Australian Imperial Force (AIF)]]
* [[3rd Pioneer Battalion, Australian Imperial Force (AIF)]]
* [[4th Pioneer Battalion, Australian Imperial Force (AIF)]]
* [[5th Pioneer Battalion, Australian Imperial Force (AIF)]]
* [[Pioneer Training Battalion, Australian Imperial Force (AIF)]]
* [[1st Army Troops Company (Engineers), Australian Imperial Force (AIF)]]
* [[1st Field Company, Australian Imperial Force (AIF)]]
* [[2nd Field Company, Australian Imperial Force (AIF)]]
* [[3rd Field Company, Australian Imperial Force (AIF)]]
* [[4th Field Company, Australian Imperial Force (AIF)]]
* [[5th Field Company, Australian Imperial Force (AIF)]]
* [[6th Field Company, Australian Imperial Force (AIF)]]
* [[7th Field Company, Australian Imperial Force (AIF)]]
* [[8th Field Company, Australian Imperial Force (AIF)]]
* [[9th Field Company, Australian Imperial Force (AIF)]]
* [[10th Field Company, Australian Imperial Force (AIF)]]
* [[11th Field Company, Australian Imperial Force (AIF)]]
* [[12th Field Company, Australian Imperial Force (AIF)]]
* [[13th Field Company, Australian Imperial Force (AIF)]]
* [[14th Field Company, Australian Imperial Force (AIF)]]
* [[15th Field Company, Australian Imperial Force (AIF)]]
* [[17th Field Company, Australian Imperial Force (AIF)]]
* [[1st Field Squadron, Australian Imperial Force (AIF)]]
* [[2nd Field Squadron, Australian Imperial Force (AIF)]]
* [[D Field Troop and Bridging Train, Australian Imperial Force (AIF)]]
* [[Engineer Training Depot, Australian Imperial Force (AIF)]]
* [[Electrical and Mechanical Mining and Boring Company, Australian Imperial Force (AIF)]]
* [[1st Tunnelling Company, Australian Imperial Force (AIF)]]
* [[2nd Tunnelling Company, Australian Imperial Force (AIF)]]
* [[3rd Tunnelling Company, Australian Imperial Force (AIF)]]
* [[Australian Corps Topographical Section]]
* [[1st Australian Division Salvage Company]]
* [[2nd Australian Division Salvage Company]]
* [[3rd Australian Division Salvage Company]]
* [[4th Australian Division Salvage Company]]
* [[5th Australian Division Salvage Company]]
* [[Australian and New Zealand Army Corps Signals Company]]
* [[I ANZAC Corps Signals Company]]
* [[II ANZAC Corps Signals Company]]
* [[Australian Corps Signals Company]]
* [[1st Australian Divisional Signals Company]]
* [[2nd Australian Divisional Signals Company]]
* [[3rd Australian Divisional Signals Company]]
* [[4th Australian Divisional Signals Company]]
* [[5th Australian Divisional Signals Company]]
* [[New Zealand and Australian Divisional Signals Company]]
* [[Signal Training Unit, Australian Imperial Force (AIF)]]

See also [https://www.awm.gov.au/collection/AWM4/14/ list of engineering war diaries].

==== Logistics ====

* [[Railway Companies Headquarters, Australian Imperial Force (AIF)]]
* [[1st Light Railway Operating Company, Australian Imperial Force (AIF)]]
* [[2nd Light Railway Operating Company, Australian Imperial Force (AIF)]]
* [[3rd Light Railway Operating Company, Australian Imperial Force (AIF)]]
* [[4th Broad Gauge Railway Operating Company, Australian Imperial Force (AIF)]]
* [[5th Broad Gauge Railway Operating Company, Australian Imperial Force (AIF)]]
* [[6th Broad Gauge Railway Operating Company, Australian Imperial Force (AIF)]]
* [[Railway Operating Division Depot, Australian Imperial Force (AIF)]]
* [[No 2 Ammunition Unit, Australian Imperial Force (AIF)]]
* [[1st Australian Divisional Train]]
* [[2nd Australian Divisional Train]]
* [[3rd Australian Divisional Train]]
* [[4th Australian Divisional Train]]
* [[5th Australian Divisional Train]]
* [[ANZAC Mounted Divisional Train]]
* [[Australian Mounted Divisional Train]]
* [[K Supply Column, I ANZAC Corps]]
* [[Y Supply Column, II ANZAC Corps]]
* [[Australian Corps Mechanical Transport Column]]
* [[I ANZAC Corps Troops Supply Column]]
* [[II ANZAC Corps Troops Supply Column]]
* [[Australian Corps Troops Supply Column]]
* [[1st Australian Divisional Supply Column]]
* [[2nd Australian Divisional Supply Column]]
* [[3rd Australian Divisional Supply Column]]
* [[4th Australian Divisional Supply Column]]
* [[5th Australian Divisional Supply Column]]
* [[10th Company, Australian Army Service Corps]]
* [[1st Australian Railhead Supply Detachment]]
* [[17th Company, Australian Army Service Corps]]
* [[18th Company, Australian Army Service Corps]]
* [[Australian Army Service Corps Training Depot]]
* [[1st Australian Field Bakery]]
* [[2nd Australian Field Bakery]]
* [[3rd Australian Field Bakery]]
* [[4th Australian Field Bakery]]
* [[5th Australian Field Bakery]]
* [[1st Australian Field Butchery]]
* [[2nd Australian Field Butchery]]
* [[3rd Australian Field Butchery]]
* [[4th Australian Field Butchery]]
* [[5th Australian Field Butchery]]
* [[I ANZAC Corps Ammunition Park]]
* [[K Ammunition Park, I ANZAC Corps]]
* [[Y Ammunition Park, II ANZAC Corps]]
* [[1st Australian Ammunition Sub-Park]]
* [[2nd Australian Ammunition Sub-Park]]
* [[3rd Australian Ammunition Sub-Park]]
* [[4th Australian Ammunition Sub-Park]]
* [[5th Australian Ammunition Sub-Park]]
* [[1st Australian Depot Unit of Supply]]
* [[2nd Australian Depot Unit of Supply]]
* [[3rd Australian Depot Unit of Supply]]
* [[4th Australian Depot Unit of Supply]]
* [[5th Australian Depot Unit of Supply]]
* [[6th Australian Depot Unit of Supply]]
* [[7th Australian Depot Unit of Supply]]
* [[8th Australian Depot Unit of Supply]]
* [[9th Australian Depot Unit of Supply]]
* [[10th Australian Depot Unit of Supply]]
* [[11th Australian Depot Unit of Supply]]
* [[12th Australian Depot Unit of Supply]]
* [[14th Australian Depot Unit of Supply]]
* [[15th Australian Depot Unit of Supply]]
* [[16th Australian Depot Unit of Supply]]
* [[17th Australian Depot Unit of Supply]]
* [[18th Australian Depot Unit of Supply]]
* [[19th Australian Depot Unit of Supply]]
* [[20th Australian Depot Unit of Supply]]
* [[21st Australian Depot Unit of Supply]]
* [[22nd Australian Depot Unit of Supply]]
* [[23rd Australian Depot Unit of Supply]]
* [[24th Australian Depot Unit of Supply]]
* [[25th Australian Depot Unit of Supply]]
* [[1st Australian Divisional Mechanical Transport Company]]
* [[2nd Australian Divisional Mechanical Transport Company]]
* [[3rd Australian Divisional Mechanical Transport Company]]
* [[4th Australian Divisional Mechanical Transport Company]]
* [[5th Australian Divisional Mechanical Transport Company]]
* [[6th Australian Corps Troops Mechanical Transport Company]]

==== Veterinary ====

* [[1st Mobile Veterinary Section, Australian Imperial Force (AIF)]]
* [[2nd Mobile Veterinary Section, Australian Imperial Force (AIF)]]
* [[3rd Mobile Veterinary Section, Australian Imperial Force (AIF)]]
* [[4th Mobile Veterinary Section, Australian Imperial Force (AIF)]]
* [[5th Mobile Veterinary Section, Australian Imperial Force (AIF)]]
* [[6th Mobile Veterinary Section, Australian Imperial Force (AIF)]]
* [[7th Mobile Veterinary Section, Australian Imperial Force (AIF)]]
* [[8th Mobile Veterinary Section, Australian Imperial Force (AIF)]]
* [[9th Mobile Veterinary Section, Australian Imperial Force (AIF)]]
* [[10th Mobile Veterinary Section, Australian Imperial Force (AIF)]]
* [[Australian Veterinary Hospital]]
* [[Australian Army Veterinary Corps Training Depot]]

==== Australian Flying Corps (AFC) ====

* [[1 Squadron Australian Flying Corps (AFC)]]
* [[2 Squadron Australian Flying Corps (AFC)]]
* [[3 Squadron Australian Flying Corps (AFC)]]
* [[4 Squadron Australian Flying Corps (AFC)]]
* [[5 (Training) Squadron Australian Flying Corps (AFC)]]
* [[6 (Training) Squadron Australian Flying Corps (AFC)]]
* [[7 (Training) Squadron Australian Flying Corps (AFC)]]
* [[8 (Training) Squadron Australian Flying Corps (AFC)]]
* [[Half Flight Australian Flying Corps (Mesopotamia)]]

=== Australian Naval and Military Expeditionary Force ===

Also known as First Expeditionary Force, and later as Tropical Force. Another volunteer land force, administratively separate from the AIF, raised in August 1914 to invade and occupy German colonies in the Pacific. Operated with Royal Australian Navy ships, but infantry battalions organized by Army general staff.

* [[Australian Naval and Military Expeditionary Force]] (narratives, media and other sources can go on this page if they relate to machine gun sections, medical detachment, signallers, supply and transport, or other support services, or can't be matched to battalions)
** [[1st Battalion, Australian Naval and Military Expeditionary Force]] (sailed on [[SS Berrima]])
** [[2nd Battalion, Australian Naval and Military Expeditionary Force]] (sailed on [[SS Kanowna]])
** [[3rd Battalion, Australian Naval and Military Expeditionary Force]]
** [[4th Battalion, Australian Naval and Military Expeditionary Force]]
** [[Naval Brigade, Australian Naval and Military Expeditionary Force]]

See also [https://www.awm.gov.au/search/all/?query=naval+military+expeditionary+force&op=Search AWM search results] for unit pages.

=== Citizen Military Force ===

Also known as the Militia. Conscripted in peace-time for training and could be called out for home defence, but not legally allowed to be sent overseas. Mobilized for home defence at the start of the First World War.

See also [[Wikipedia:Australian Army Reserve]].

The 1914 Army List contains a complete list of pre-war CMF units, including:

* [https://archive.org/stream/armylistjul1914grea#page/1196/mode/2up light horse regiments]
* [https://archive.org/stream/armylistjul1914grea#page/1204/mode/2up artillery]
* [https://archive.org/stream/armylistjul1914grea#page/1207/mode/2up engineers]
* [https://archive.org/stream/armylistjul1914grea#page/1209/mode/2up infantry regiments] (These seem to be all single-battalion regiments numbered 1st to 93rd. Number of companies varies.)
* [https://archive.org/stream/armylistjul1914grea#page/1225/mode/2up Medical Corps]

==== Infantry Brigades ====

* [[2nd Infantry Brigade, Australian Militia]]
* [[5th Infantry Brigade, Australian Militia]]
* [[6th Infantry Brigade, Australian Militia]]
* [[8th Infantry Brigade, Australian Militia]]
* [[10th Infantry Brigade, Australian Militia]]
* [[13th Infantry Brigade, Australian Militia]]
* [[16th Infantry Brigade, Australian Militia]]
* [[17th Infantry Brigade, Australian Militia]]
* [[18th Infantry Brigade, Australian Militia]]
* [[19th Infantry Brigade, Australian Militia]]
* [[22nd Infantry Brigade, Australian Militia]]
* [[23rd Infantry Brigade, Australian Militia]]

==== Infantry Regiments ====

* [[2nd Infantry Regiment, Australian Militia]]
* [[3rd Infantry Regiment, Australian Militia]]
* [[4th Infantry Regiment, Australian Militia]]
* [[7th Infantry Regiment, Australian Militia]]
* [[8th Infantry Regiment, Australian Militia]]
* [[9th Infantry Regiment, Australian Militia]]
* [[11th Infantry Regiment, Australian Militia]]
* [[14th Infantry Regiment, Australian Militia]]
* [[16th Infantry Regiment, Australian Militia]]
* [[18th Infantry Regiment, Australian Militia]]
* [[19th Infantry Regiment, Australian Militia]]
* [[21st Infantry Regiment, Australian Militia]]
* [[24th Infantry Regiment, Australian Militia]]
* [[25th Infantry Regiment, Australian Militia]]
* [[26th Infantry Regiment, Australian Militia]]
* [[29th Infantry Regiment, Australian Militia]]
* [[31st Infantry Regiment, Australian Militia]]
* [[33rd Infantry Regiment, Australian Militia]]
* [[34th Infantry Regiment, Australian Militia]]
* [[37th Infantry Regiment, Australian Militia]]
* [[38th Infantry Regiment, Australian Militia]]
* [[39th Infantry Regiment, Australian Militia]]
* [[41st Infantry Regiment, Australian Militia]]
* [[43rd Infantry Regiment, Australian Militia]]
* [[46th Infantry Regiment, Australian Militia]]
* [[48th Infantry Regiment, Australian Militia]]
* [[49th Infantry Regiment, Australian Militia]]
* [[51st Infantry Regiment, Australian Militia]]
* [[52nd Infantry Regiment, Australian Militia]]
* [[55th Infantry Regiment, Australian Militia]]
* [[56th Infantry Regiment, Australian Militia]]
* [[58th Infantry Regiment, Australian Militia]]
* [[60th Infantry Regiment, Australian Militia]]
* [[63rd Infantry Regiment, Australian Militia]]
* [[64th Infantry Regiment, Australian Militia]]
* [[66th Infantry Regiment, Australian Militia]]
* [[67th Infantry Regiment, Australian Militia]]
* [[70th Infantry Regiment, Australian Militia]]
* [[71st Infantry Regiment, Australian Militia]]
* [[73rd Infantry Regiment, Australian Militia]]
* [[74th Infantry Regiment, Australian Militia]]
* [[76th Infantry Regiment, Australian Militia]]
* [[78th Infantry Regiment, Australian Militia]]
* [[79th Infantry Regiment, Australian Militia]]
* [[81st Infantry Regiment, Australian Militia]]
* [[84th Infantry Regiment, Australian Militia]]
* [[86th Infantry Regiment, Australian Militia]]
* [[88th Infantry Regiment, Australian Militia]]
* [[91st Infantry Regiment, Australian Militia]]
* [[92nd Infantry Regiment, Australian Militia]]
* [[93rd Infantry Regiment, Australian Militia]]
* [[Melbourne University Rifles, Australian Militia]]
* [[Sydney University Scouts, Australian Militia]]

==== Light Horse Brigades ====

* [[1st Light Horse Brigade, Australian Militia]]
* [[2nd Light Horse Brigade, Australian Militia]]
* [[3rd Light Horse Brigade, Australian Militia]]
* [[5th Light Horse Brigade, Australian Militia]]
* [[7th Light Horse Brigade, Australian Militia]]
* [[8th Light Horse Brigade, Australian Militia]]

==== Light Horse Regiments ====

* [[1st Light Horse Regiment, Australian Militia]]
* [[2nd Light Horse Regiment, Australian Militia]]
* [[3rd Light Horse Regiment, Australian Militia]]
* [[4th Light Horse Regiment, Australian Militia]]
* [[5th Light Horse Regiment, Australian Militia]]
* [[6th Light Horse Regiment, Australian Militia]]
* [[7th Light Horse Regiment, Australian Militia]]
* [[9th Light Horse Regiment, Australian Militia]]
* [[11th Light Horse Regiment, Australian Militia]]
* [[13th Light Horse Regiment, Australian Militia]]
* [[15th Light Horse Regiment, Australian Militia]]
* [[16th Light Horse Regiment, Australian Militia]]
* [[17th Light Horse Regiment, Australian Militia]]
* [[19th Light Horse Regiment, Australian Militia]]
* [[20th Light Horse Regiment, Australian Militia]]
* [[22nd Light Horse Regiment, Australian Militia]]
* [[23rd Light Horse Regiment, Australian Militia]]
* [[24th Light Horse Regiment, Australian Militia]]
* [[25th Light Horse Regiment, Australian Militia]]
* [[26th Light Horse Regiment, Australian Militia]]
* [[27th Light Horse Regiment, Australian Militia]]
* [[28th Light Horse Regiment, Australian Militia]]
* [[29th Light Horse Regiment, Australian Militia]]

==== Engineers and Signals ====

* [[1st Field Company, Australian Militia]]
* [[2nd Field Company, Australian Militia]]
* [[5th Field Company, Australian Militia]]
* [[6th Field Company, Australian Militia]]
* [[7th Field Company, Australian Militia]]
* [[8th Field Company, Australian Militia]]
* [[12th Field Company, Australian Militia]]
* [[13th Field Company, Australian Militia]]
* [[14th Field Company, Australian Militia]]
* [[32nd Fortress Company, Australian Militia]]
* [[33rd Fortress Company, Australian Militia]]
* [[34th Fortress Company, Australian Militia]]
* [[35th Fortress Company, Australian Militia]]
* [[36th Fortress Company, Australian Militia]]
* [[37th Fortress Company, Australian Militia]]
* [[38th Fortress Company, Australian Militia]]
* [[39th Fortress Company, Australian Militia]]
* [[23rd Signal Company, Australian Militia]]
* [[24th Signal Company, Australian Militia]]
* [[25th Signal Company, Australian Militia]]
* [[26th Signal Company, Australian Militia]]
* [[28th Signal Company, Australian Militia]]
* [[30th Signal Company, Australian Militia]]
* [[6th Signal Troop, Australian Militia]]
* [[15th Signal Troop, Australian Militia]]
* [[17th Signal Troop, Australian Militia]]
* [[19th Signal Troop, Australian Militia]]
* [[21st Signal Troop, Australian Militia]]
* [[22nd Signal Troop, Australian Militia]]

==== Artillery ====

* [[1st Field Artillery Brigade, Australian Militia]]
* [[4th Field Artillery Brigade, Australian Militia]]
* [[6th Field Artillery Brigade, Australian Militia]]
* [[7th Field Artillery Brigade, Australian Militia]]
* [[8th Field Artillery Brigade, Australian Militia]]
* [[1st Field Artillery Battery, Australian Militia]]
* [[2nd Field Artillery Battery, Australian Militia]]
* [[3rd Field Artillery Battery, Australian Militia]]
* [[10th Field Artillery Battery, Australian Militia]]
* [[11th Field Artillery Battery, Australian Militia]]
* [[13th Field Artillery Battery, Australian Militia]]
* [[16th Field Artillery Battery, Australian Militia]]
* [[17th Field Artillery Battery, Australian Militia]]
* [[18th Field Artillery Battery, Australian Militia]]
* [[19th Field Artillery Battery, Australian Militia]]
* [[20th Field Artillery Battery, Australian Militia]]
* [[22th Field Artillery Battery, Australian Militia]]
* [[23rd Field Artillery Battery, Australian Militia]]
* [[25th Field Artillery Battery, Australian Militia]]
* [[31st Field Artillery Battery, Australian Militia]]
* [[34th Field Artillery Battery, Australian Militia]]
* [[35th Field Artillery Battery, Australian Militia]]
* [[37th Field Artillery Battery, Australian Militia]]
* [[38th Field Artillery Battery, Australian Militia]]
* [[40th Field Artillery Battery, Australian Militia]]
* [[41st Field Artillery Battery, Australian Militia]]
* [[44th Field Artillery Battery, Australian Militia]]
* [[46th Field Artillery Battery, Australian Militia]]
* [[1st Garrison Artillery, Australian Militia]]
* [[2nd Garrison Artillery, Australian Militia]]
* [[3rd Garrison Artillery, Australian Militia]]
* [[4th Garrison Artillery, Australian Militia]]
* [[5th Garrison Artillery, Australian Militia]]
* [[6th Garrison Artillery, Australian Militia]]
* [[7th Garrison Artillery, Australian Militia]]
* [[8th Garrison Artillery, Australian Militia]]
* [[9th Garrison Artillery, Australian Militia]]
* [[10th Garrison Artillery, Australian Militia]]
* [[11th Garrison Artillery, Australian Militia]]
* [[12th Garrison Artillery, Australian Militia]]
* [[13th Garrison Artillery, Australian Militia]]

==== Medical ====

* [[1st Field Ambulance, Australian Militia]]
* [[2nd Field Ambulance, Australian Militia]]
* [[4th Field Ambulance, Australian Militia]]
* [[6th Field Ambulance, Australian Militia]]
* [[7th Field Ambulance, Australian Militia]]
* [[8th Field Ambulance, Australian Militia]]
* [[13th Field Ambulance, Australian Militia]]
* [[15th Field Ambulance, Australian Militia]]
* [[16th Field Ambulance, Australian Militia]]
* [[17th Field Ambulance, Australian Militia]]
* [[19th Field Ambulance, Australian Militia]]
* [[21st Field Ambulance, Australian Militia]]
* [[22nd Field Ambulance, Australian Militia]]
* [[23rd Field Ambulance, Australian Militia]]
* [[24th Light Horse Field Ambulance, Australian Militia]]
* [[25th Light Horse Field Ambulance, Australian Militia]]
* [[26th Light Horse Field Ambulance, Australian Militia]]
* [[28th Light Horse Field Ambulance, Australian Militia]]
* [[30th Light Horse Field Ambulance, Australian Militia]]
* [[31st Light Horse Field Ambulance, Australian Militia]]
* [[33rd Company, Australian Army Medical Corps]]
* [[40th Company, Australian Army Medical Corps]]
* [[45th Company, Australian Army Medical Corps]]
* [[50th Company, Australian Army Medical Corps]]

==== Logistics ====

* [[2nd Company, Australian Army Service Corps]]
* [[3rd Company, Australian Army Service Corps]]
* [[6th Company, Australian Army Service Corps]]
* [[7th Company, Australian Army Service Corps]]
* [[8th Company, Australian Army Service Corps]]
* [[9th Company, Australian Army Service Corps]]
* [[13th Company, Australian Army Service Corps]]
* [[14th Company, Australian Army Service Corps]]
* [[15th Company, Australian Army Service Corps]]
* [[16th Company, Australian Army Service Corps]]
* [[19th Company, Australian Army Service Corps]]
* [[20th Company, Australian Army Service Corps]]
* [[22nd Company, Australian Army Service Corps]]
* [[23rd Company, Australian Army Service Corps]]
* [[24th Company, Australian Army Service Corps]]
* [[25th Company, Australian Army Service Corps]]
* [[26th Company, Australian Army Service Corps]]
* [[28th Company, Australian Army Service Corps]]
* [[30th Company, Australian Army Service Corps]]
* [[31st Company, Australian Army Service Corps]]

=== Permanent Force ===

Full-time regulars. Not legally allowed to include infantry. Mostly staff officers, administrators and instructors, but there were a few Permanent Force artillery and engineer units. Only the Permanent Force branches of the artillery and engineers were allowed the title "Royal" in this period.

1914 Army List gives a list of [https://archive.org/stream/armylistjul1914grea#page/1196/mode/2up Permanent Force officers and units].

* [[Royal Australian Field Artillery]]
** [[1st Battery, Royal Australian Field Artillery]]
** [[2nd Battery, Royal Australian Field Artillery]]
** [[3rd Battery, Royal Australian Field Artillery]]
* [[Royal Australian Garrison Artillery]]
* [[Royal Australian Engineers]]
** [[Survey Section, Royal Australian Engineers]]

There were also Permanent sections of:

* [[Australian Army Medical Corps]]
* [[Australian Army Service Corps]]
* [[Australian Army Veterinary Corps]]

== Royal Australian Navy ==

The navy was formed after the federation of the Commonwealth of Australia in 1901 as Commonwealth Naval Forces. Granted the title Royal Australian Navy in 1911. Put under British command immediately after start of First World War and served in many theatres.

See also [[Wikipedia:History of the Royal Australian Navy]].

* [[HMAS AE1]]
* [[HMAS AE2]]
* [[HMAS Australia]] (1912-1924)
* [[HMAS Brisbane]] (1916-1935)
* [[HMAS Encounter]]
* [[HMAS Huon]]
* [[HMAS Melbourne]] (1913-1928)
* [[HMAS Parramatta]] (1910-1928)
* [[HMAS Pioneer]]
* [[HMAS Protector]]
* [[HMAS Psyche]]
* [[HMAS Swan]] (1915-1928)
* [[HMAS Sydney]] (1913-1928)
* [[HMAS Torrens]] (1916-1926)
* [[HMAS Warrego]] (1912-1928)
* [[HMAS Yarra]] (1910-1928)
* [[1st Royal Australian Naval Bridging Train]] (February 1915 - May 1917)

==Transport ships ==

* [[SS Alacrity]]
* [[SS Aorangi]] (1883-1925)
* [[SS Berrima]] (leased until 10 October 1917?)
* [[SS Kanowna]]
* [[HMNZT WILLOCHRA]]

<references />

[[Category:Australia]]
[[Category:Australian Army]]
[[Category:Royal Australian Navy]]

File:RAMC France 1919.jpg

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Group photo of officers and men of the [[Royal Army Medical Corps, British Army]], nurses, puppies and one or two soldiers of other regiments. Dated on the back France 1919, but exact date and unit unknown.

Photographer unknown. Copyright expired.

[[Category:Women in WWI]]

File:North Staffs wedding.jpg

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Man wearing British Army uniform with cap badge of [[North Staffordshire Regiment, British Army]]. Woman in wedding dress. Names unknown.

Photographer unknown. Copyright expired.

[[Category:Women in WWI]]

File:Lancashire landing.jpg

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{{RefTNA|http://discovery.nationalarchives.gov.uk/details/r/C1837084|WO 317/1}} (16), photo of Lancashire Landing, Cape Helles, Gallipoli. This beach was codenamed W Beach in the plan for the British landings, but later nicknamed Lancashire Landing because [[1st Battalion, Lancashire Fusiliers, British Army]] landed there on 25 April 1915.

For more information, see [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Landing_at_Cape_Helles Wikipedia: Landing at Cape Helles].

Uploaded to [https://www.flickr.com/photos/nationalarchives/16980215740/in/album-72157651584608500/ Flickr Commons] by UK National Archives. No known copyright restrictions.