Yorkshire Regiment. Date of death: 22/03/1918 (aged 35) Cemetery: BAC-DU-SUD BRITISH CEMETERY, BAILLEULVAL, France. Son of Charles and Susannah Brogden, of Thornaby-on-Tees; husband of Jane Brogden, of 72, Stanley St., Norton, Stockton-on-Tees. A First World War legacy project bringing together data sources such as IWM's Lives of the First ...

Lives of the First World War - IWM's unique project enabling everyone to share their information, stories and images to compile Life Stories "on nearly 8 million men and women who served in uniform and worked on the home front". Commonwealth War Graves Commission - a unique online collection of the details of every serviceman or woman. Many of ...

First launched in 2017, A Street Near You provides a comprehensive database that "explore[s] the local legacy of the First World War." This resource contains "nearly 500,000 location records for 410,000 men and women who died whilst serving in the First World War," and displays them on an interactive map that allows users to see how the War affected countries and communities alike. The site ...

World War I [j] or the First World War (28 July 1914 – 11 November 1918) was a global conflict between two coalitions: the Allies and the Central Powers. Fighting took place throughout Europe, the Middle East, Africa, the Pacific, and parts of Asia.

The International Encyclopedia of the First World War (WW1) is a collaborative international research project designed to develop a virtual English-language reference work on the First World War. 1914-1918-Online.

The value of examining the streetscapes of the First World War can be clearly demonstrated with the United States. Before its entry into the conflict in 1917, the nation shifted between neutrality and belligerence in a carefully coordinated fashion as domestic and international economic and political concerns were weighed. 16 The pursuit of these objectives was taken within a context of ...

Soldiers on every street corner: the war is announced in York Yorkshire Museum Stand in front of the Yorkshire Museum, on the steps looking out into the Gardens. As we stand here in the grounds of the Yorkshire Museum we recall the outbreak of war which was announced to the residents of York on 5th August 1914, outside the offices of the Yorkshire

During the First World War, newspapers were the main source of information for the public, explaining what was happening at home and abroad as well as forming the basis for pro-war propaganda. In York, the building that currently operates as the City Screen Picturehouse, later on you will see it between stops 4 and 5, was once the headquarters ...

Search for First World War Commonwealth casualties by date of death and find out more about the men and women who died. A Street Near You. Cemeteries; Regiments; War Memorials; Dates . List and search all dates; 100 years ago today; Wednesday 13 May 1914; Thursday 13 May 1915; Saturday 13 May 1916;

From British prisoners of war being marched through Bruges to anti-aircraft guns on the Eiffel Tower and new recruits in Toronto, our Street View specialist takes us back 100 years