General:

• First World War.com - a comprehensive site about WW1
• The Great War Forum - you can become a member and participate in this popular forum - lots of expert advice here
• The Long, Long Trail - a comprehensive site about the British army, including the Commonwealth
• For King & Empire - Canadians in WW1
• Canadian Expeditionary Force Study Group - you can become a member and participate in the forum
• Commonwealth War Graves Commission - find relatives, learn more about battles
• Images of a Forgotten War - archival film from Canada's National Film Board
• BBC site
• WW1 Timelines
• WW1 Timelines
• Canadian War Memorials Fund - Lord Beaverbrook's war art
• Library and Archives Canada - Canada and the First World War
• Faces of War - photos
• Veterans' Affairs Canada
• Canadian Great War Project
• Canadian National Defence - Histories
• The Western Front Association
• The Lost Generation
• Battlefields
• Passchendaele Remembered
• Canada in the Great War - by the producers of the movie Passchendaele
• The Great War
• History of Canadian Military Communications
• German U-Boats in WW1
• Laurier Centre for Military Strategic and Disarmament Studies
• The Khaki University
• WW1 vehicles
• Canada's Part in The Great War

Women in WW1:

• Canada's Nursing Sisters
• Scarlet Finders - British Military Nurses
• A Canadian Nurse
• Women at War
• Canadian VADs
• Women Pilots
• Women Writers and WW1

Biographies, Diaries, Memoirs:

• Oral Histories
• Canadian Letters & Images Project
• Dominion Institute's Memory Project
• Love and War - letters between a doctor and his sweetheart, a nurse, who became his wife during the war
• John McCrae - from the McCrae House Museum
• John McCrae on Veterans' Affairs Canada
• A soldier's diary
• Letters and a diary
• With the American Ambulance Field Service in France
• VC aviator as POW
• Diary of a Nursing Sister on the Western Front

The Home Front:

• Halifax Explosion on CBC
• Songs of WW1
• Home Front in Britain
• War Posters
• Photos and Songs
• The War Amps
• Aftermath
• WW1 Poetry

Aviation:

• The Aerodrome - lots of info, and a forum you can join
• RFC Pilot Training
• Rattle of Pebbles - Diaries of 2 Canadian Airmen
• The Early Years of Military Flight - RAF site
• Official RAF History site
• League of WW1 Aviation Historians
• WW1 Aces
• Canadian Billy Bishop - Britain's top Ace
• The Red Fighter Pilot - Germany's top Ace Manfred von Richthofen's book
• 66 Squadron
• UK Airfields
• The War in the Air
• Albert Ball - RFC Ace
• Jasta Boelcke - German Ace
• Canadian VC pilot
• A Pilot's War - RFC & RAF
• RFC
• WW1 Aviation - Illustrated History
• WW1 Pilots Speak
• Voices in Flight
• RAF Lincolnshire

Military Medical:

• The Medical Front
• Canadian Expeditionary Force Study Group - Medical
• Treatment of Wounded Soldiers
• War Surgery
• Shell Shock
• The Repression of War Experience - by Capt. W.H.R. Rivers, Craiglockhart War Hospital
• History of #7 (Queen's) General Hospital
• Historical Records of #8 Canadian Field Ambulance
• War Story of the Canadian Army Medical Corps
• Sinking of the Hospital Ship Llandovery Castle
• Sinking of the Hospital Ship Britannic
• A private convalescent hospital for officers in France
• The Spanish Influenza Pandemic
• WW1 Ambulances

The Lusitania:

• Lest We Forget
• The Lusitania Resource
• Lusitania Online

Museums:

• Canadian War Museum
• Canadian Aviation Museum
• In Flanders Fields in Iper (formerly Ypres) Belgium
• Military Communications and Electronics Museum

Wikipedia is useful for an overview of anything.

Lists of WW1 Links

• Canadian Military History links
• Military History links
• WW1 links
• WW1 Website links for ages 14 -18
• WW1 Research Site
• War Science Reading List from CBC
• Library & Archives Canada - references
• How Canada Remembers - teaching resources

For a truly comprehensive list of WW1 website resources, visit this Canadian Expeditionary Force Study Group link.

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