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* [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] | * [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] | ||
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* 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. | * 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. |
Revision as of 10:35, 9 March 2015
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.
Contents
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 battalions these men were in, and 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.
- An English Woman-Sergeant in the Serbian Army by Flora Sandes, 'the only British woman officially to serve as a soldier in World War I'.
- The letters of Sister Pearl Elizabeth Corkhill, AANS could shed light on many locations.
- What information is contained in Nursing Adventures: A FANY in France (called 'A Nurse at War: Nursing Adventures in France' in the USA) by Grace McDougall?
- FIELD HOSPITAL & FLYING COLUMN. Being the Journal of an English Nursing Sister in Belgium & Russia by Violetta Thurstan.
- Which unit was Charlie, who wrote these postcards to Blanche N Wooton, in?
- Where was Llewelyn Williams based?
- Thomas Fredrick (Fred) Littler
- 1/5th Battalion Cheshire Regiment, UK
- Royal Engineers: which unit?
- Richard, Jim, Ted, Paul, Topher Berryman
- Richard: Indian Army Medical Corps
- James: Middlesex Regiment (which battalion?); Royal Fusiliers Public Schools Battalion (which one?)
- Christopher: Middlesex Regiment (which battalion?); Army Service Corps (which unit?)
- Edward: 2nd Battalion 39th Garhwal Rifles, Indian (done)
- Paul: Royal Navy
- Major-General Cuthbert H T Lucas
- Commander of 87th Infantry Brigade, UK
- Commander of Machine Gun Corps training school
- Commander of 4th Division, UK
- Harry Lamin
- 10th Training Reserve Battalion
- 9th Battalion York and Lancaster Regiment, UK
- Attached to headquarters of 23rd Division, UK
- 1st Garrison Battalion Royal Munster Fusiliers
- 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, UK
- Ely, Dinsmore, 1894-1918. 'Diary letters of Dinsmore Ely, edited by his father, Dr. James O. Ely'. Library of Congress via Internet Archive.
- Letter from Charles Hezlet to his mother, 26 September 1916
- Commander of 33rd Siege Battery Royal Garrison Artillery
- 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
A list of 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 firstworldwar.com
Some diaries listed on the Western Front Association site
A massive list of '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!
Digitised Royal Army Medical Corps (RAMC) papers from the Wellcome Library From their blog post '(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 memoirs, letters and 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 Weltkrieg / The Great War
The Wartime Memories Project - The Great War 1914-1918 The Allied Army contains many personal accounts, mostly second-hand stories related by family members.
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.
Australian personal narratives
The Australian War Memorial's Anzac Connections lists 188 (at the time of writing) 'Biographies including private records and diaries'
The State Library of NSW has a collection of WWI diaries and letters online. Can you link the authors to their battalion page?
A user list of Great War diaries, letters, reminiscences on Trove (not all diaries may be available online)
British personal narratives
Cymru 1914, The Welsh Experience of the First World War includes some diaries, photographs, letters and memoirs
Cymry'r Rhyfel Mawr / Welsh Voices of the Great War on People's Collection Wales
Welsh Voices of the Great War Online
Personal Diaries and letters of Officers and Other Ranks from the 1st The Queen’s Dragoon Guards
Herefordshire in the Great War
Canadian personal narratives
If you're interested in finding records for Canadian battalions, the Canadian Great War project has a form to search for War Diaries by unit.
New Zealand personal narratives
Personal Histories of the New Zealand Mounted Rifles (see also the sitemap).
Diaries listed in the National Library of New Zealand's WW100 digitisation project
Off at last the goodbye would have been too awful is a blog post featuring diaries discovered during digitisation at the Alexander Turnbull Library.
"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.
American personal narratives
Research in progress
Add notes or links here for diaries you need help researching, missing links from the sites above, etc.