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Museums and other places to visit on the Western Front

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Significant internet resources (histories, armies)

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The Allied Armies and other military forces

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The Central Powers Armies and other military forces

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War memorials

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Individual sites and projects (units, reminiscences, etc)

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The literature and art of the Great War




Dean and Variants


Cyndi's List of Genealogy Sites
 on the Internet Cyndi's List of Genealogy Sites on the Internet

FAMILY SEARCH is a great search facility operated by the Church of Latter Day Saints. (Mormons). It is free to use and can significantly improve your research.

DEANs of Dorchester traces the DEANE / DEAN family from 16th century England to Dorchester County, Maryland and beyond. An online database which includes 3,400+ individuals.

PAT CRYER has an excellent site with some interesting information about the Potteries in London, including Dean references.

THE SHIPS LIST website is an excellent site with an enormous database of passengers travelling from SCOTLAND, ENGLAND and IRELAND to AMERICA, CANADA and AUSTRALIA.

LARRY SLAVENS has a great website predominantly for the surname Slaven, but features a DEAN family connection and includes some good images.

JANICE St. GEMME has a Tyndale family history dating back to 1320 with several Dean references.

PHIL PEARN has written a book outlining the Carter/Dean familes in Upton Park, Cheshire, UK

JOHN PALMER has extensive material on the Derbyshire, UK parishes of WIRKSWORTH and MATLOCK. There are many references to DEAN / DEANE / DEENE / DENE.

DIANE McQUIVEY has an excellent site with a vast database for ancestors mostly from the USA. Quite a few references DEAN / DEANE.

MARY LOVE has ancestors dating from 1745 from North Carolina, USA. Shadrick DEAN is the earliest she has found. There is plenty to see on this personal record.

CHRISTINE CLEMENT and her cat 'SOOTY' have a very interesting site you should check out. There are several references to DEAN / DEANE in New Zealand.

MARTHA KING has a good site in the USA and has a number of DEAN / DEEN references.

JOHN DEVANEY has a good site tracing the history of Australian Football since 1858 and has a number of DEAN / DEANE references.

VALERIE BOMAN has a good site in the USA and has a number of DEAN references.

AMERICAN MERCHANT MARINE AT WAR is dedicated to the Mariners who died in service of their country during all Wars, including Revolutionary War, World War II, Korea, Vietnam; and their U.S. Naval Armed Guard shipmates. Includes a list of 8000+ American Prisoners of the Revolution.

ALAN MOORE has a excellent site about Redhill and Reigate, Surrey, UK. It is packed full of interesting facts images and historical comment with a number of DEAN references.
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Official records



Commonwealth War Graves Commission
Imperial War Museum
National Army Museum
National Archives (Public Record Office)
London - Belfast - Edinburgh Gazettes
American Battle Monuments Commission
National Archives of Australia
Österreichisches Kriegsarchiv (German Language)
Bovington Tank Museum
Canadian Veterans Affairs
Canadian War Museum
Belgian War Graves (an unofficial site but the best there is)
The Ministry of Defence
Army Records Society
Medal Index Rolls at the National Archive
Canadian Soldiers of the First World War
Australian War Memorial
British Newspaper Library Colindale
Canadian Military History Gateway
Parliament - United Kingdom
Commonwealth War Graves Commison Education site
The United States of America - Library of Congress
Army Personnel Records
Queen Mary's Hospital Sidcup
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Organisations, associations, friends



The Royal British Legion
The Last Post Association
The Friends of St George's Memorial Church, Ypres
The Friends of Lochnagar
War Memorials Trust
The Machine Gun Corps Old Comrades Association
The Gallipoli Association
The Salonika Campaign Society
The Victoria Cross Society
Centre for First World War Studies, University of Birmingham
Association 1914-1918 (French Language)
Deutsches Erinnerungskomitee Argonnerwald (German/French/English Language)
The League of WW1 Aviation Historians
The Cross and Cockade
Fovant Badges Society
Association Nationale du Souvenir de la Bataille de Verdun et de la Sauvegarde de ses Hauts Lieux (French Language)
Comrades and Colleagues
BBC History Website
Channel Four ~ World War One History
The Durand Group
BBC Schools Great War Website
Royal Canadian Legion
The Orders and Medals Research Society
Association Sur les Traces De la Grande Guerre Battle of Loos
CHRISTOPHER JOHN - YPRES SALIENT
Postal Heritage Trust
The South African Military History Society
Erquingham-Lys et son Histoire
The Heugh Gun Battery Trust.
Royal Dublin Fusiliers
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Museums and other places to visit on the Western Front



In Flanders Field Museum, Ieper (Ypres)
Hooge Crater Museum, Ieper
Musee des Abris (Albert)
Historial de la Grande Guerre (Peronne)
US 1st Division Museum at Cantigny
Memorial de Verdun
Musee d l'Armee, Invalides, Paris
The Western Front Museum
Fleet Air Arm Museum
The Dugout Experience at Passchendaele
British & Irish Regimental Museums
Somme BattlefieldsTourism site
R.A.F. Museum Hendon
The Great War in Flanders Fields (in French)
Canadian Posters from the First World War (Archives of Ontario)
Le Petit Train de la Haut Somme
Talbot House, Poperinghe
The Liberty Memorial Museum
Ossuaire de Douaumont
Royal Naval Museum
Military Museums List
Fort Seclin
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Significant internet resources (histories, armies)



Trenches on the web
Hellfire Corner
WW1 Document Archive
First World War.Com
The Long Long Trail, the story of the British Army of 1914 - 1918
Aftermath
Paperless Archive's World War 1 history
For King and Empire: Canada's soldiers in the Great War
The Maple Leaf legacy project
An Unfortunate Region
Cyndi's List: Military resources
British Pathe News
Michelin (maps)
Hello Tommy
Canadian War Diaries
US Military Academy - Maps of the First World War
National Archives of Canada Canada and the First World War
Canadian Great War Homepage
Australian Embarkation Rolls - WW1
Schools History Study Site.
Teachers Virtual School - History Department
Canadian Military History Gateway
"Behind the wire: British prisoners of war database"
United Kingdom 1901 Census
The Heritage of the Great War (Contains Graphic Pictures)
The National Archives Learning Curve
The Great War
Exhibition of war photographs / taken by Capt. F. Hurley, August 1917- August 1918
The Generals - John Singer Sargent
The National Inventory of War Memorials
Doughboy Center
France at War.
1st Battalion - The Middlesex Regt.
World War One Battlefields
The Mavor collection
New Zealand and the Tomb of the Unknown Warrior
New Zealand History Online
Paths of Glory
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The Allied Armies and other military forces



The Great War, with section on Second Battle of Ypres
The Regimental Warpath
Scots at War
The Regimental Museum of the Liverpool Scottish
The Royal Flying Corps
US Marine Corps Historical galleries
The First AIF (Australian) Order of Battle
Australian Imperial Force
Somme, a land of history (ANZAC)
WW1 Naval Combat
Capt. Noel Chavasse, VC and Bar, MC
The Tyneside Scottish and Irish Brigades
A Group Photograph - before, now and in between (8th Royal Berks)
The 10th Green Howards
The 17th Welsh
The 1st Middlesex
Forgotten Soldiers (British Army in India)
Belgian Fronts
Brave little Belgium
The Romanian Royal Army
La Grande Guerra (Italian Fronts)
The White War (Alpine Front)
Newfoundland and the Great War
Navies of World War One
War Chron - Russian Forces in the Great War
New Zealand and Le Quesnoy
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The Central Powers Armies and other military forces



Jasta Boelcke
Stahlgewitter: das archiv zum weltkrieg 1914-1918
Pour le Merite ('The German VC')
Der Erste Weltkrieg - Ostfriesland - Forum 14-18 (German Language)
Die Tiroler Kaiserjaegerbund
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War memorials



Cheadle and Gatley War Memorials
Roll of Honour (Bedfordshire, Cambridgeshire and Huntingdonshire)
Lincolnshire Village Memorials
Tibshelf men in the Great War
Hertford War Memorial
Colchester's Heroes
The War Memorials of Wimpole and Arrington
The War Memorials of Abberton and Langenhoe
The War Memorials of Calderdale (Yorkshire)
The War Memorials of Wolverhampton
Cartmel War Memorial (Cumbria)
Cullompton War Memorials (Devon)
The Thin Blue Line (Sussex Police and much more)
Cenotaphs in the Wakefield Area
Malvern War Memorial
Russian Cemeteries
Canadian Virtual War Memorial
The Machen War Memorial
War Graves in Britain
Hearts of Midlothian Memorial
Soldiers Memorials
World War 1 Cemeteries
New Zealand - Interpreting First World War memorials
Bidford War Memorial
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Individual sites and projects (units, reminiscences, etc)



The Churchill Era
War Grave Photo Service
The Great War in Flanders Fields
Walking the Battlefields
Gallipoli Wars
In the trenches - US-oriented links, bibliography and essays
The Great War
The War Times Journal
Fallen Heroes
Trench Songs
The War Diaries of Stapleton Tench Eachus
Aero Conservancy
The History of the Victoria Cross
The Zeebrugge Raid
The Accrington Pals
The Athy Heritage Centre
The Somme Heritage Centre
Ypres and the Great War
Executed for Example
The Vickers Machine Gun
The Kent VAD
The Kent County Association of Change Ringers (with WW1 section)
One Time, One Place (6th Northumberland Fusiliers)
The Holland Men
The Short Life and Assumed Death of Jack Clegg (RND)
The Boys from the Old Swan (Wrexham)
The Kefford Family Name Website
Reading Remembrance Trust
Stobs Military Camp (Hawick)
Branching out
Caithness Archives (Highlands)
Australian bronze battlefield plaques
Hall of Mirrors
Les villages detruits (the lost villages of Verdun)
Souain Perthes les Hurlus
Les amis de Vauquois
La Grande Guerre en dessins - The War in Pictures (French Language)
The American Battlefields in France
The Liberty Memorial Museum of WW1 (Kansas City)
Art of the First World War
The British War Memorial Project
C.W.G.C. Headstone Insignia - (In French)
Warpath Website
An Archival Look at World War 1 (Queens University Archives)
Canadian Air Aces and Heroes
For King and Emperor (Indian Army Edwardian era-1939)
The First World War (Rene Brouwer)
War Graves in Britain
Salient Points - Your 1st & 2nd World War Rendezvous
Hearts Great War Memorial
William Drury 2/5 Leicesters
Post Office Rifles - Roll of Honour
Battle of the Somme
Landships - Modellers Photographs
Archives of Contario remembers our Canadian War Heroes
Canadian Images and Letters Project
Canadian Wartime Experiences
Courage Remembered-The World Wars through Canadian Eyes
Stannington Roll of Honour
Concetto Suma - Italian Soldier - In Great War (in Italian)
Echoes of the Great War
Adas War, the story of a Salvation Army member in WW1
Coast Of Conflict
Chris Van Wierst Har History
Chris Van Wierst photo gallery
The Great War -Vimy Ridge
Military Badges by Booker
The British Army in Italy 1917-1918
Hommage to British and Commonwealth troops (mostly French)
Royal Irish Lancers
Captain Albert Ball VC
Bedordshire Regiment in the Great War
The Royal Flying Corps 1914 - 1918
Heugh Battery Memorial Society
Leaving Cheltenham and all that was dear
Balleymena in the Great War
Warrant Officer Albert Fowler
The Royal Hibernian Military School Roll of Honour
Ada Le Poidevin - A young Guernsey Salvationist's work in England, France and Belgium during and after the Great War.
THE FLYING MACHINES by RICCARDO CAVIGIOLI (1895-1975).
Pro Patria Mori -the 56th Division at Gommecourt
Chailey 1914-1918 (Paul Nixon)
Luce Maple Leaf Association
The Great War- Steve Westerns Website
More Than A Name
The Dairy Of Gunner Arthur Charles Welham
241 Brigade ROYAL FIELD ARTILLERY
John Ashley Stinton- A Memorial
The Old Front Line (Paul Reed)
Ypres 1917 (Paul Reed)
First World War Links . Com
The Thurmaston Military Indexes
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The literature and art of the Great War



Virtual seminars for teaching literature (incl. Wilfred Owen archive)
St John's College Robert Graves Trust
Poetry of the First World War
World War One poets on the battlefields (incl. The Wilfred Owen Association)
Propaganda postcards
Art of the First World War: 100 paintings
David Cohen Fine Art
Great War Songs
Canadian Poster Collection
The Ontario War Artists Collection
Canvas of war-Masterpieces from the Canadian War Museum
Virtual Gramophone First World War Era
Canadian posters of the Great War
Hydra-the magazine of Craiglockhart War Hospital
Illustrated London News
Images of a forgotten war
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