First World War Links

Commonwealth War Graves Commission

Old Front Line
Battlefields of WW1 by Paul Reed, one of the most experienced and widely published WW1 historians and guides.

The Long, Long Trail

The Great War Forum
The internet's premier discussion area for all matters relating to the Great War.

The Western Front Association
The internet's premier discussion area for all matters relating to the Great War.

Western Front Association - Merseyside

The Western Front Association was formed with the aim of furthering interest in the period 1914-1918. The object of the Association is to educate the public in the history of the Great War with particular reference to the Western Front. The Merseyside Branch meets on the first Thursday of each month at 7.00pm until 10.00pm at the Williamson Art Gallery and Museum.

The Gallipoli Association
A fascinating site for those with an interest in Gallipoli and the fighting there

Liverpool Museum resources
A very useful start point to research ancestors in the King’s. Also includes download on the Movements of Battalions 1914-1918, full list of copies of Battalion War Diaries held, publications on the King’s.

King's Liverpool Regiment database
The Museum website also hosts a database search facility for soldiers serving in the King's Regiment during World War I. Searches can be made by surname, initial, first name, number, rank, or a combination of these.

King’s Regiment Association, Liverpool
Extensive help and advice for research into soldiers of the regiment

The Liverpool Pals Memorial Pages
Incredible website put together by Tony Wainwright BEM and colleagues, listing all the Liverpool Pals of the 17th/18th/19th/20th Battalions, L King's Liverpool Regiment, lost in the First World War. Gradually adding biographies of the men. If you can contribute a soldier's story do visit the site and follow their links.

Liverpool Scottish - 10th (Scottish) Battalion, The King's (Liverpool Regiment)
The Regimental Museum is the responsibility of the Regimental Museum Trust, established in 1979 to protect the collection of artifacts which have been acquired since the foundation of the 8th (Scottish) Volunteer Battalion, The King's (Liverpool Regiment) in 1900. This and its successor units have been known generally as "The Liverpool Scottish".

Cheshire Regiment Military Museum
The Museum, based at the Castle in Chester remembers those who fought in The Cheshire Regiment, The Cheshire Yeomanry, The 3rd Carabiniers, The 5th Royal Iniskilling Dragoon Guards, Eaton Hall Officer Cadet School and several other small Cheshire units. Several regiments and periods are featured and there is also a section of a recreated trench to walk through.

Carl’s Cam
Another excellent website and the best place to start your war memorial research. Carl Rogerson has produced a superb site containing a gazetteer of Cheshire memorials, with transcriptions of names, photographs and much more for the family historian.

Liverpool Town Hall - Hall of Remembrance
The Hall of Remembrance was opened by the Duke of Windsor, then Prince of Wales, in 1921 and contains the City's Roll of Honour.  The Roll of Honour carries the names of over 13,000 military men from Liverpool who died during the First World War.  This list of war dead began to be compiled during the war when names of the fallen were posted in a window overlooking Exchange Flags and relatives queued to add names.  Because of this, the list is far from complete, but a number of names have been added since 1921, on additional panels.

Memories and Memorial

Not aligned to one memorial in particular, but much broader memorial or memory websites, usually with incredible depth and detail.

Cheshire Remembers
Cheshire Memorial Project - an incredible project covering all memorials across the county by Stephen Benson. Biographies being added daily. Covers the historical county boundaries (all of Wirral).

Liverpool And Merseyside Remembered
Anthony Hogan and Ged Fagan's excellent site compiled to remember the people of Liverpool and Merseyside who fought, worked and lived through World War One and World War Two. To create a reminder of them by the people who knew them best, their relatives and friends.

Merseyside Roll of Honour
War memorials database. Amazing depth to this phenomenal project.

Roll of Honour
The work of Martin Edwards, this site reports on literally hundreds of memorials across the whole country and is backed by detailed research into many of them. A "must" for all serious research into Great War Casualties

War Memorial web sites

Following the centenary,many more communities have been able to produce websites for their local war memorial. This is just a short selection of well produced sites.

Prescot Roll of Honour 1914-19
Prescot has the honour of erecting the first WW1 war memorila in the country. Stephen Nulty's site has been online for many years and continues to improve.

Ellesmere Port War Memorial
Vivid accounts of the experiences of local soldiers feature here, plus photos of the men. Battlefields visits, local campaigns, medal roll of honour and much more in this detailed site.

Farndon War Memorial
Similar approach to Ellesmere Port. Vivid accounts of the experiences of local soldiers feature here, plus photos of the men. Battlefields visits, medal roll of honour and much more in this detailed site.

Halewood War Memorial
Still a work in progress, but as above, ccounts of the experiences of local soldiers, plus photos of the men.

St Helens Rolls of Honour
A fantastic site which commemorates the men and women of St Helens who fell in the two World Wars