Societies
Western Front Association
www.westernfront.co.uk
The Western Front Association aims to further the interest in the period 1914-1918, to perpetuate the memory, courage and comradeship of all those who served their countries in France and Flanders and their own countries during The Great War.
Gallipoli Association
www.gallipoli-association.org
The Royal British Legion
www.poppy.org.uk
Somme Remembrance Association
www.somme-remembrance.org
Battlefield Tours
Battle Honours Tours
www.battle-honours.co.uk
Battle Honours Ltd brings alive the history of our military heritage through bespoke presentations and tours.
The Battlefields of the Somme (Somme Tourist Board)
www.somme-battlefields.co.uk
Online Resources
UK National Inventory of War Memorials
http://www.ukniwm.org.uk/
Established in 1989, the UKNIWM has compiled a comprehensive record of war memorials in the UK and the Channel Islands. Around 56,000 memorials have been recorded, through the efforts of a large team of volunteers throughout the UK.
Channel 4's Lost Generation
http://www.channel4.com/history/microsites/L/lostgeneration/index.html
The Lost Generation website offers an opportunity to search for names, war memorials and stories of those who served and lost their lives during the First World War.
The Commonwealth War Graves Commission: The Battle of the Somme
http://www.cwgc.org/somme/
A new history section on this site looks at the progress of the Battle based on location and on day-to-day action.
First World War.com
www.firstworldwar.com
Great War.com
www.greatwar.co.uk
Somme 1916
www.somme-1916.com
World War 1 Battlefields
www.ww1battlefields.co.uk
Information on visiting the Western Front today
1914-1918.net
www.1914-1918.net
The Long, Long Trail: the story of the British Army in the Great War
World War 1 1914-1918
www.worldwar1.nl
BBC History
www.bbc.co.uk/history/war/wwone/battle_somme.shtml
The History Channel
www.thehistorychannel.co.uk
Official Bodies
Historial de la Grande Guerre
www.historial.org
Website of the Museum of the First World War in France (castle of Péronne, Somme)
Australian War Memorial
www.awm.gov.au
The Memorial is a unique Australian national institution that combines a shrine, a world-class museum and an extensive archive with excellent online information.
New Zealand History Online
http://www.nzhistory.net.nz/war/somme-introduction
The site features information and resources from within the History Group of the Ministry for Culture and Heritage, Wellington, New Zealand. The section on the Somme includes images that have never before been published.
Canadian War Museum
www.warmuseum.ca
This national museum presents Canada's military past and how it shaped the country.
National Archives
www.nationalarchives.gov.uk
The National Archives of England, Wales and the United Kingdom has one of the largest archival collections in the world, spanning 1000 years of British history, from Domesday Book of 1086 to government papers recently released to the public.
Commonwealth Graves Commission
www.cwgc.org
The Commonwealth War Graves Commission (CWGC) is responsible for marking and maintaining the graves of those members of the Commonwealth forces who died during the two world wars, for building and maintaining memorials to the dead whose graves are unknown and for providing records and registers of these 1.7 million burials and commemorations found in most countries throughout the world.
