Articles and projects commemorating the centenary of the First World War are appearing in ever-increasing numbers. Here are links to some that I recommend:

January 2015

• Scots rail disaster at heart of WW1 commemorations (The Scotsman, 10 Jan 2015)
• Why we should remember the first world war’s female munitions workers (The Guardian, 6 Jan 2015)
• Thiepval Memorial to be restored for 2016 Somme Centenary (Centenary News, 6 Jan 2015)
• Vimy losses include soldier who returned with new name (Guelph Mercury, 5 Jan 2015)
• January 1915: Canadian soldiers yearn for war and place in “hall of fame” (Toronto Star, 4 Jan 2015)
• In a war-soaked world, Mennonites struggled for a peaceful response (Waterloo Region Record, 3 Jan 2015)
• WW I letters project offers window into brutality of battle (CBC News, 2 Jan 2015)

December 2014

• French town tries to save first world war soldier’s room for posterity (The Guardian, 28 Dec 2014)
• Christmas war letters – 1916 (Ottawa Citizen, 27 Dec 2014)
• Goose and plum pudding: How German prisoners of war marked a WW I Christmas in Canada (CBC News, 24 Dec 2014)
• Postcards inspire Montrealer’s book about life during the First World War (Montreal Gazette, 22 Dec 2014)
• Christmas truce of 1914 was broken when German snipers killed two British soldiers (The Telegraph, 22 Dec 2014)
• Who is the man behind the vandalized WWI grave at Little Lake Cemetery? (Peterborough This Week, 21 Dec 2014)
• Stories shared from behind Vernon lines (Vernon Morning Star, 21 Dec 2014)
• 10 ways Christmas was celebrated during the First World War (History Extra, 20 Dec 2014)
• France’s military brothels: Hidden history of the First World War (France 24, 15 Dec 2014)
• A permanent record of Waterloo Region’s Great War soldiers (Waterloo Region Record, 13 Dec 2014)
• Insulting rule on war medals and inheritance tax is finally scrapped (The Telegraph, 13 Dec 2014)
• WW1: How firms cashed in on the war (BBC News Magazine, 9 Dec 2014)
• UK to pay back outstanding First World War debt (Centenary News, 3 Dec 2014)
• More to be said about Doukhobors and the war (Nelson Star, 2 Dec 2014)
• Guelph’s Fell family sent four sons to war (Guelph Mercury, 2 Dec 2014)
• Hashtag Heritage: Social Media, Advertising and Remembrance Day (Active History, 1 Dec 2014)

November 2014

• Shell shock — misunderstood then and now (Waterloo Region Record, 20 Nov 2014)
• Tower poppy: How you plan to display your poppy (BBC News, 20 Nov 2014)
• Cartoonist’s sketches found fun amid the horror of the First World War (Canada.com, 19 Nov 2014)
• The story of a soldier who didn’t come back from the Great War (Canada.com, 14 Nov 2014)
• Candid WW I photographs yield 100-year-old mystery (CBC News, 10 Nov 2014)
• The history of the Remembrance Poppy (The Independent, 10 Nov 2014)
• WW I centenary brings ‘battlefield business’ boom to Belgium (CBC News, 10 Nov 2014)
• Rare PoW camp newspapers show ‘overlooked’ WW I experience (CBC News, 10 Nov 2014)
• Why I wear a poppy on Nov. 11: The story of Rifleman Albert Todd (France 24, 8 Nov 2014)
• ‘No job for a boy’: WW I through eyes of a Canadian teen soldier (CBC News, 11 Nov 2014)
• Remembrance Day through the years (CBC News, 7 Nov 2014)
• 98-year-old B.C. woman shares letter from father she never met, killed in WW I (CBC News, 6 Nov 2014)
• British Future study finds a ‘strong appetite’ for learning about WW1 history (Centenary News, 6 Nov 2014)
• Canadian First Nations snipers among the most deadly in WWI (Metro News, 5 Nov 2014)
• Remembering Aunt Sara and the war (Toronto Star, 5 Nov 2014)
• WW I Canadian soldier’s remains identified (CBC News, 5 Nov 2014)
• Toronto’s Great War Attic project takes the family heirloom show on the road (Toronto Star, 1 Nov 2014)
• Why uniforms matter in the military (Maclean’s Magazine, 1 Nov 2014)

October 2014

• Canadian Navy marks battle that saw first Canadian military casualties of First World War (Ottawa Citizen, 31 Oct 2014)
• Canada produced many of the First World War’s greatest aces (Canada.com, 30 Oct 2014)
• Help us to remember heroes of the First World War (The Telegraph, 26 Oct 2014)
• Sibling gallantry: Robert and Nerissa Gass watched 5 of their 7 children go off to war (Chronicle Herald, 26 Oct 2014)
• Last wish of Ypres soldiers: I leave everything to mum (The Guardian, 26 Oct 2014)
• 10 Famous Canadians that you didn’t know served in the First World War (Canada.com, 23 Oct 2014)
• How WW1 changed aviation forever (BBC News Magazine, 19 Oct 2014)
• Lee-Enfield rifle phased out by Canadian military after 100 years of service (MetroNews, 18 Oct 2014)
• A Century Later, Relics Emerge From a War Frozen in Time (National Geographic, 17 Oct 2014)
• Images: Forgotten fronts of the Great War (Canada.com, 17 Oct 2014)
• London’s Imperial War Museum backs down over forgotten ‘colonial’ generals (National Post, 17 Oct 2014)
• 10 things you didn’t know were World War I memorials (Canada.com, 16 Oct 2014)
• First world war in Google Street View (The Guardian, 16 Oct 2014)
• French soldier’s room unchanged 96 years after his death in first world war (The Guardian, 14 Oct 2014)
• The slang words that defined the First World War (The Telegraph, 13 Oct 2014)
• Bishop and beyond: Canada spawned many of First World War’s greatest aces (Times-Colonist, 13 Oct 2014)
• First World War flyers risked shortened lifespan but have extended legacy (Lethbridge Herald, 12 Oct 2014)
• Family archive captures daily impact of Great War (Irish Examiner, 10 Oct 2014)
• Images: Visiting the killing fields of Verdun today (Canada.com 9 Oct 2014)
• Four Canadian soldiers who fell in France in 1918 identified (Centenary News, 8 Oct 2014)
• McGill lecturer and poet John McCrae inducted into Medical Hall of Fame (Global News, 7 Oct 2014)
• How a servant became Churchill’s ‘eyes and ears’ during the First World War (The Daily Telegraph, 7 Oct 2014)
• Memories of the Great War — a Port Coquitlam story (The Tri-City News, 6 Oct 2014)
• Smartphone snaps of the First World War (The Telegraph, 4 Oct 2014)
• The trench coat’s forgotten WW1 roots (BBC News, 4 Oct 2014)
• Nova Scotia Highlanders: Canada’s 85th Battalion fortified by fishermen, miners, farmers, foresters (The Chronicle Herald, 4 Oct 2014)
• First World War nurses did their part (Peninsula News, 3 Oct 2014)
• Guelph’s decorated First World War dead (Guelph Mercury, 2 Oct 2014)
• Lest we forget the lost lingo of First World War (The Scotsman, 2 Oct 2014)
• Britain’s Royal Navy in the First World War – animated (The Guardian, 1 Oct 2014)
• B.C. university trying to solve mystery of WWI artist known only as ‘JM’ (CTV news, 1 Oct 2014)

September 2014

• Toronto women trained to defend home front during First World War (Canada.com, 30 Sept 2014)
• WWI Canadian soldiers’ remains identified (CBC News, 27 Sept 2014)
• Seasickness, sharks and bad weather: the trecherous journeys to the Western Front taken by Indian Infantry (The Telegraph, 25 Sept 2014)
• That was close: Prince Edward’s tourist snaps of Western Front go up for auction (The Telegraph, 24 Sept 2014)
• Runners honour Canada’s Great War dead (Edmonton Journal, 22 Sept 2014)
• Australian War Memorial’s ‘Menin Gate Lions’ go on loan for Centenary (Centenary News, 22 Sept 2014)
• Soldier’s First World War battlefield diary finally back in Canada (Edmonton Journal, 19 Sept 2014)
• Soldier’s daughter treasures sheet music (Edmonton Journal, 19 Sept 2014)
• Anzac centenary: Network of ‘lost’ trenches rediscovered at Gallipoli (News.com.au, 16 Sept 2014)
• Law students killed in WWI to be called to bar (Toronto Star, 15 Sept 2014)
• How 250,000 Belgium refugees didn’t leave a trace (BBC News Magazine, 14 Sept 2014)
• Determined to fight (Leader-Post, 13 Sept 2014)
• Remembering Unknown Soldiers from the Great War (Canada.com, 10 Sept 2014)
• Toronto’s first casualty of World War 1 (Toronto Star, 8 Sept 2014)
• Found after 99 years – lost letter from First World War soldier (Birmingham Mail, 8 Sept 2014)
• Officer killed after Canadian troops had enemy on the run (Waterloo Region Record, 5 Sept 2014)
• Sniper killed my grandfather – he never knew he had a son (Scunthorpe Telegraph, 5 Sept 2014)
• The First World War: Excerpts from the diary of Woodman Leonard (Canoe.ca, 4 Sept 2014)
• Why was this letter box crucial to troops at Horton Hospital? (Your Local Guardian, 4 Sept 2014)
• Heroic first world war horse receives ‘animal Victoria Cross’ (The Guardian, 2 Sept 2014)
• Letters give insight into life on the First World War frontline (Evening Times, 2 Sept 2014)

August 2014

• Newfoundlanders who lined up to serve in WWI still revered as the Blue Puttees (Winnipeg Free Press, 31 Aug 2014)
• Mystery of nurses’ diaries that give insight into wartime suffering (Lincolnshire Echo, 31 Aug 2014)
• Royal Canadian Navy remembers launch of submarine service in 1914 (Centenary News, 29 Aug 2014)
• The Stalybridge-penned song that saw millions of heroes off to World War One (Manchester Evening News, 27 Aug 2014)
• Winnie the Pooh’s hometown of White River, Ont., celebrates the bear (CBC Manitoba, 26 Aug 2014)
• Photograph found behind blocked up attic room (Loughborough Echo, 25 Aug 2014)
• One Canadian soldier returned — and 62 descendants followed (Toronto Star, 24 Aug 2014)
• The prisoners of Ruhleben (BBC News Magazine, 24 Aug 2014)
• Recalling the exploits of two Vancouver pipers of the Great War (Vancouver Sun, 23 Aug 2014)
• The battle to feed Tommy: New exhibition looks at the diet of a WW1 soldier (The Express, 23 Aug 2014)
• Recalling Canada’s first national internment (Lethbridge Herald, 21 Aug 2014)
• Palace of pain: Netley, the hospital built for an empire of soldiers (The Guardian, 21 Aug 2014)
• Unknown Warriors: British nurse’s wartime letters offer ‘unflinching’ view of the front line (Centenary News, 19 Aug 2014)
• Soldier uses violin as World War I diary (Classic FM, 18 Aug 2014)
• Canadian War Museum welcomes your donated artifacts, but can’t take everything (Canada.com, 17 Aug 2014)
• When Your Country Needed You (The Express, 10 Aug 2014)
• The British soldier who fired the first shot of World War 1 (The Mirror, 9 Aug 2014)
• B.C.’s Louie brothers were among 300 Chinese-Canadians who fought in the First World War (Vancouver Sun, 9 Aug 2014)
• A Tale of Two Soldiers Who Fought in the Great War (Toronto Star, 8 Aug 2014)
• B.C. Geneological Society offering free tours Sunday of WWI veterans’ graves in Mountain View Cemetery (CBC News, 8 Aug 2014)
• How Advertisers Used World War I to Sell, Sell, Sell (The Atlantic, 6 Aug 2014)
• How Britain’s ‘Devil Dwarfs’ Helped Allies Win World War One (International Business Times, 2 Aug 2014)
• New figures show almost 20,000 Irishmen fought for Canada in WW1 (The Irish Times, 1 Aug 2014)
• Legendary Ojibwa sniper unsung hero of WWI (CBC News, 1 Aug 2014)
• Australia missed the memo about start of first world war, archives reveal (The Guardian, 1 Aug 2014)
• First World War: How do we remember it meaningfully, a century later? (The Globe and Mail, 1 Aug 2014)

July 2014 (No entries as I took a break over the summer)

June 2014

• 100 Years Legacies: The Lasting Impact of WW1 (Wall Street Journal, 25 June 2014)
• Following the caribou trail (The Southern Gazette, 24 June 2014)
• Folkestone remembers being gateway to the trenches – video (BBC News Kent video, 24 June 2014)
• An Irishwoman’s Diary on those who came home from the first World War (The Irish Times, 24 June 2014)
• Touched by history: Meeting a witness to WWI assassination (Chicago Tribune, 24 June 2014)
• Shelled, shot and bombed – a survivor’s tale (Sunderland Echo, 24 June 2014)
• The faceless men (BBC News Magazine, 24 June 2014)
• Extraordinary stories of the men (and animals) who served in Army’s oldest regiment during First World War (Mail Online, 23 June 2014)
• World War I: The War That Changed Everything (Wall Street Journal, 20 June 2014)
• Commemorating the First World War Through the Power of Art (Huffington Post, 20 June 2014)
• Exploring German First World War Ships Deliberately Sunk at Scapa Flow, Orkney Islands (International Business Times, 19 June 2014)
• Can you identify mystery First World War soldier? (Burnley Express, 19 June 2014)
• The Imperial Japanese Navy and the First World War (The Diplomat, 19 June 2014)
• World War One exhibition explores role of black humour (BBC News, 18 June 2014)
• Kaiser Wilhem’s early drawings shed new light on childhood (The Telegraph, 17 June 2014)
• First man to enlist for Great War finally feted in county (Independent, 17 June 2014)
• Mystery of Sussex-bound soldiers ready for World War One (Wales Online, 17 June 2014)
• Royal gifts to World War I soldiers to be opened for the first time (Metro, 16 June 2014)
• Great War Centenary: How war forged steel that Churchill relied on in 1939 (The Express, 15 June 2014)
• World War One: Chapel Bay fort’s role in naval blockade (BBC News Wales, 15 June 2014)
• Elmira plumber fought against parents’ homeland in First World War (The Record, 14 June 2014)
• Irish first World War dead ‘may be higher than claimed’ (Irish Times, 12 June 2014)
• Global Tragedy of World War I Expressed Through One Soldier’s Story (Epoch Times, 11 June 2014)
• St Margaret’s, Bodelwyddan: How did 86 Canadian soldiers die in North Wales? (BBC WW1 at Home video, 10 June 2014)
• First World War army ration biscuits brought home 99 years ago by Gallipoli survivor up for auction (Mail Online, 10 June 2014)
• Australian War Memorial links with Canadian War Museum (Sydney Morning Herald, 9 June 2014)
• The pilots who worked to thwart the Zeppelin threat at Hainault Farm aerodrome (Ilford Recorder, 8 June 2014)
• Revealed: war diary meant to stay secret (The Telegraph, 8 June 2014)
• Walking the Western Front: The war ended here … with a final death (Toronto Star, 6 June 2014)
• He dug the trenches that kept men alive (The Record, 6 June 2014)
• Newfoundland marks 100 years since spy scare (Metro News, 6 June 2014)
• Remembering South Africans killed in the Great War: 1914-1918 (The South African, 6 June 2014)
• Deaths in last days led to Gen. Arthur Currie’s libel suit (Toronto Star, 6 June 2014)
• World War One: Tungsten ‘the armour plate of conflict’ (BBC News, 6 June 2014)
• No mercy for the Germans, even when they surrendered (Toronto Star, 3 June 2014)
• World War One: Weymouth invasion by injured Anzacs (BBC News, 2 June 2014)
• Walking the Western Front: ‘Saviours of democracy’ drive the enemy out (Toronto Star, 2 June 2014)
• Goodbye Piccadilly: The Role Of The London Bus In WWI (The Londonist, 2 June 2014)
• For men used to mining – fighting in trenches was seen as an escape FROM HELL (The Express, 1 June 2014)

May 2014

• Fragmented WW1 East Lothian family reunited (BBC News Scotland, 31 May 2014)
• A WWI injury like no other on the battlefield of baseball (Toronto Star, 31 May 2014)
• Why did so many men keep fighting? (The Telegraph, 30 May 2014)
• ‘Daring’ officer left his wife, daughter behind (The Record, 30 May 2014)
• Family sought for return of WWI soldier’s war medals (Cape Breton Post, 30 May 2014)
• Private Peart’s War, an ordinary soldier’s memoir of the First World War (Vancouver Sun, 30 May 2014)
• A crowded canal and the narrow margins of victory (Toronto Star, 28 May 2014)
• First World War PoWs: why has history forgotten them? (The Telegraph, 28 May 2014)
• Walking the Western front: Here’s where the war was won (Toronto Star, 27 May 2014)
• Brisfit: Story behind First World War’s Bristol Fighters being made (Western Daily Post, 26 May 2014)
• Kidsgrove soldier killed on Ypres battlefield after death of his young son (The Sentinel, 26 May 2014)
• Ed Coleman’s history: Memories of the war (NovaNewsNow.com, 25 May 2014)
• For 80 years, Pte. William Phillips lay in the wrong grave (Toronto Star, 25 May 2014)
• Great War Centenary: Schlieffen’s plan was an arrogant suicide note (The Express, 25 May 2014)
• Canadian Memorial Cross is donated to auction to raise money for the Royal British Legion (EDP24, 24 May 2014)
• How to (quietly) move 100,000 Canadian troops (Toronto Star, 23 May 2014)
• Sea at Gallipoli ran red with Irish blood (Independent.ie, 22 May 2014)
• Pillow fights and wheelbarrow races: life on the Western Front (The Telegraph, 22 May 2014)
• The story of the young soldier who returned from Canada to fight for his motherland (EADT24, 19 May 2014)
• Rare photographs of WWI German fighter pilot the Red Baron in action found in shoebox at British car boot sale (Mail Online, 18 May 2014)
• World War I in Photos: Animals at War (The Atlantic, 18 May 2014)
• Memorial to youngest Allied soldier to die in first World War unveiled (The Irish Times, 18 May 2014)
• 1st World War parade at heart of Edinburgh Fringe (The Scotsman, 15 May 2014)
• WW1: The conscientious objectors who refused to fight (BBC News, 15 May 2014)
• How Cadbury brothers took different paths in first world war (The Guardian, 15 May 2014)
• At Vimy Ridge, unexpected reminders of home (Toronto Star, 14 May 2014)
• How Bristol’s pleasure steamers played vital role in First World War (Bristol Post, 13 May 2014)
• Appeal to find relatives of forgotten WWI soldier Thomas Carrigan (Sutton Guardian, 13 May 2014)
• How the Queen Mother did her bit during the Great War  (Mail Online, 12 May 2014)
• Walking the Western Front – from war hero to enemy alien and back again (Toronto Star, 12 May 2014)
• Manitoba Archives exhibit showcases First World War (CBC News Manitoba, 12 May 2014)
• ‘Shot at Dawn’: Canadian soldier’s tragic end (Toronto Star, 11 May 2014)
• Memory of Great War’s fallen still burns brightly in Welsh Valleys (The Irish Times, 9 May 2014)
• Relics of war: a broken watch and a letter to a father already dead (West Briton, 8 May 2014)
• What would the England team have looked like had there been no Great War? (The Telegraph, 8 May 2014)
• Pilot’s fascinating World War One diaries reveal respect between enemies (Western Telegraph, 7 May 2014)
• Tower of London moat to become ‘sea of poppies’ to mark WW1 centenary (The Telegraph, 7 May 2014)
• Pets trained for the trenches and children raising funds: How the home front helped to win the First World War (The Telegraph, 4 May 2014)
• Should Britain have joined World War One? Keep these points in mind during the argument (The Independent, 4 May 2014)
• Exhibit at Halifax Citadel commemorates the Great War (Herald News, 3 May 2014)
• Suffolk: First World War hut saved for posterity (EADT24, 3 May 2014)
• The World War One teenage flying ace who became prisoner of war (Manchester Evening News, 2 May 2014)
• Sikh soldier lays at rest, far from homeland and adopted land (Toronto Star, 2 May 2014)

April 2014

• New Port Credit murals commemorate WWI (Mississauga News, 30 April 2014)
• Remembering war a complicated act (Victoria News, 29 April 2014)
• Did a British beach boy who gave Kaiser Bill a bloody nose inadvertently start the First World War? (The Mirror, 29 April 2014)
• Postcards to a Havering sweetheart from Western Front soldier (Romford Recorder, 29 April 2014)
• The Irish Dames of Ypres (The Irish Times, 29 April 2014)
• World War I in Photos: Introduction (The Atlantic, 27 April 2014)
• Great-grandson traces history of Great War brothers-in-arms (Independent.ie, 27 April 2014)
• Death from the machine meant to deliver peace before WWI (The Express, 27 April 2014)
• Messages left by wounded WWI soldiers for the nurse who save their lives to be sold at auction for £200 (Daily Mail, 26 April 2014)
• Letters from the war front (Winnipeg Free Press, 26 April 2014)
• Canadian Army To Hold Series of “Patching” and Flag Raising Ceremonies (Ottawa Citizen, 25 April 2014)
• Chilling WWI letter from Vancouver major describes Germans’ poison gas attacks (Vancouver Sun, 25 April 2014)
• ‘WW1 trench flute’ to be played at Woodbridge concert (BBC News Suffolk, 25 April 2014)
• Student helps to highlight contribution of Sikh soldiers in first World War (Asian Image, 25 April 2014)
• Thoughts on Vimy Ridge from a veteran (Lethbridge Herald, 25 April 2014)
• Great War Flying Museum Aircraft Help Celebrate Centennial of WWI Aviation… (AviationPros.com, 24 April 2014)
• Tourist attraction in Diksmuide, Belgium: the Trench of Death (Toronto Star, 23 April 2014)
• ‘Orillia Days’ in First World War France (Orillia Packet, 23 April 2014)
• Katie’s fascinating voyage of discovery to Hastings (Hastings & St. Leonard Observer, 23 April 2014)
• At Vimy Ridge, Your Enemies Are Your Friends (Hazlitt, 22 April 2014)
• Historian’s campaign to get Dorking road named after 15-year-old casualty of Great War (Dorking & Leatherhead Advertiser, 22 April 2014)
• Why is Canada botching the Great War centenary? (The Globe and Mail, 21 April 2014)
• Lunatic in charge of an asylum: When Kaiser Wilhelm II ruled Germany (The Express, 20 April 2014)
• First World War begins at home (Toronto Star, 18 April 2014)
• War diary with bullet hole to go on display (Ashbourne News Telegraph, 18 April 2014)
• Dying Scot soldier’s bible in WWI exhibition (The Scotsman, 18 April 2014)
• From the Trenches: Ordinary soldiers’ artworks are on the front line of a new display at the Canadian War Museum (Ottawa West News, 17 April 2014)
• True story of Winnie-the-Pooh to be explored in new Ryerson exhibit (Toronto Star, 16 April 2014)
• Four brothers go off to war… (Medicine Hat News, 14 April 2014)
• 10 inventions that owe their success to World War One (BBC News Magazine, 13 April 2014)
• Memories of Pilkingtons’ Windle Village in Canada (St. Helen’s Star, 13 April 2014)
• Unusual and fascinating mementoes treasured by families of WW1 heroes (Daily Record & Sunday Mail, 13 April 2014)
• How the Empire saved an outgunned, outmanned Britain in The Great War (The Express, 13 April 2014)
• The tragedy of Vimy is that so few Canadians understand it (National Post, 12 April 2014)
• First World War battlefields reveal stories 100 years later in large photo exhibit in Paris (Canada.com, 11 April 2014)
• Exploits of WW1 ‘Boy’s Own’ flying ace emerge (The Telegraph, 11 April 2014)
• War medals return, family thrilled (Owen Sound Sun Times, 10 April 2014)
• Few Chatham families untouched by The Great War (Chathamthisweek.com, 9 April 2014)
• How one woman stepped in when the men marched off (The Telegraph, 8 April 2014)
• What is the “Right Way” to commemorate the First World War? (ActiveHistory.ca, 7 April 2014)
• The quiet heroics of a woman doctor on a WWI battlefield (The Express, 7 April 2014)
• New Vimy Foundation poll reveals many Canadians unaware of Vimy Ridge, one of Canada’s most important battles (CNW Newswire, 7 Apr 2014)
• A history of the First World War in 100 moments: The day the lights went out (The Independent, 7 Apr 2014)
• Vancouver army cadets march to honour victory at Vimy Ridge (Vancouver Province, 6 Apr 2014)
• Sex and high society…the decline and fall of Paris’s elite (The Express, 6 Apr 2014)
• A History of the First World War in 100 Moments: The tragic fate of the 1914 boat race crews revealed (The Independent, 6 Apr 2014)
• Manx aviators in First Word War (IOM Today, 5 Apr 2014)
• Last remaining World War 1 aircraft carrier lovingly restored (The Express, 5 Apr 2014)
• The forgotten Irish soldiers who fought for Britain in the first world war (The Guardian, 5 Apr 2014)
• Ceremony in Regina to mark 100th anniversary of First World War (Leader-Post, 4 Apr 2014)
• Museum seeks help to bring war medal home (Owen Sound Sun Times, 4 Apr 2014)
• Canada’s 1st aboriginal police officer subject of digital comic (CBC News, 4 Apr 2014)
• Dead Sask. vets to be recognized 100 years after start of First World War (News Talk 650, 3 Apr 2014)
• ‘Time capsule’ from soldier who died on the Somme contains possessions that his parents couldn’t bear to see (The Mail Online, 3 Apr 2014)
• Ypres in the first world war … and now – interactive (The Guardian, 2 Apr 2014)
• First World War mystery may be solved at last – in Tamworth (Tamworth Herald, 2 Apr 2014)
• Acclaimed comics artists publish powerful anthology of stories to combat Michael Gove’s ‘jingoistic’ interpretation of WW1 (The Independent, 1 Apr 2014)
• The many battles faced by WW1’s nurses (BBC News Magazine, 1 Apr 2014)
• Dealing With the ‘Blackadder’ View of the First World War: The Need for an Inclusive, Bi-Partisan Centenary (CVHF, 1 Apr 2014)
• NAC Orchestra’s U.K. tour to commemorate war centenary (CBC News, 1 Apr 2014)

March 2014

• We want to know how the First World War shaped Edmonton and its people (Edmonton Journal, 31 Mar 2014)
• Son gets dad’s World War One diary 50 years after his death (Coventry Telegraph, 31 Mar 2014)
• Horrors of the trenches reveal true cost of war (Yorkshire Post, 31 Mar 2014)
• Great War Centenary (1914-2014) – Part 13: Music halls (The Express, 30 Mar 2014)
• Museum of London photo collection features tragic son Kipling sent to war (The Guardian, 30 Mar 2014)
• Still in the grip of the Great War (The Economist, 29 Mar 2014)
• ‘Dazzle’ ships and candlelight vigils: First commemorative WW1 art commissions announced (The Independent, 27 Mar 2014)
• Soldier brought home from WWI frontline after sister wrote to army begging for him to be sent back after all FOUR of his brothers were killed (The Mail Online, 27 Mar 2014)
• The centenary of the first world war has not gone unnoticed in India (Financial Times, 25 Mar 2014)
• Former dustman’s salvaged WW1 archive (The Telegraph, 24 Mar 2014)
• Neil Oliver remembers brave men of Skye killed in France as machine gun industrialised war slaughter (Daily Record and Sunday Mail, 23 Mar 2014)
• Scotland the brave: Tough ‘kilties’ battled for Britain in WWI (The Express, 23 Mar 2014)
• Wallet returned to German soldier’s family A CENTURY after he died (The Express, 23 Mar 2014)
• Margaret MacMillan: How today is like the period before the First World War (The Globe and Mail, 22 Mar 2014)
• Port museum to launch From the Home Front to the Front Line (The Welland Tribune, 20 Mar 2014)
• Review of Timothy Winegard’s For King and Kanata: Canadian Indians and the First World War  (The Laurier Centre for Military Strategic and Disarmament Studies, 20 Mar 2014)
• First World War: larky-in-khaki angels deserve a statue for their bravery (The Telegraph, 20 Mar 2014)
• Ypres: World War One weapon explodes, killing two (BBC News Europe, 19 Mar 2014)
• The lessons of war (The Lethbridge Herald, 18 Mar 2014)
• Students think they know how WW1 soldiers felt. They don’t (The Guardian, 18 Mar 2014)
• Canada Post commemorates 100th anniversary of Princess Pats (Ottawa Citizen, 17 Mar 2014)
• Leicester man wants to find home for First World War memories found in soldier’s bible (Leicester Mercury, 17 Mar 2014)
• The killing of Franz Ferdinand: A single shot that unleashed hell on earth (The Express, 16 Mar 2014)
• Great War letters found in grandparents’ family Bible (Black County Bugle, 16 Mar 2014)
• The lost post: Leslieville man finds letters from a WWI soldier under his Bertmount Ave. porch (Toronto Star, 15 Mar 2014)
• “I Was There” shows the sad horror of the Great War (Herald Scotland, 14 Mar 2014)
• First world war soldiers buried with full military honours after 100 years (The Guardian, 14 Mar 2014)
• Why the Great War still fascinates the young (BBC News, 13 Mar 2014)
• The incredible and moving story of the dead British soldier found clutching a picture of his wife and child – and the German foe who returned it to his family (Daily Mail, 13 Mar 2014)
• Treasure trove of First World War memories sifted from rubbish (Radio Times, 13 Mar 2014)
• Cats of war: Animals suspected by British of spying on WW1 trenches (The Telegraph, 13 Mar 2014)
• Never before seen personal accounts of Great War offer vivid picture of life at the Front (The Independent, 12 Mar 2014)
• Huge collection of First World War memorabilia found in attic of ‘real-life Miss Havisham’ (Daily Mail, 12 Mar 2014)
• Derby First World War Flying Corps ace tracked to Canada (Derby Telegraph, 11 Mar 2014)
• Soldier’s WWI dog tags head back home after being discovered in Liverpool’s Sefton Park (Liverpool Echo, 11 Mar 2014)
• Is Plug Street named for Belgium’s Ploegsteert? (The Guardian – PEI, 10 Mar 2014)
• Sidney Lewis: British child soldier of the Great War (Yahoo News, 10 Mar 2014)
• Seeds of victory sown in love for our green and pleasant land (Express, 9 Mar 2014)
• Jeremy Paxman: why we would not fight the Great War now (The Telegraph, 9 Mar 2014)
• Alberta man David Higgins Alberta’s only casualty of Canada’s 1919 invasion of Russia (Calgary Sun, 8 Mar 2014)
• How Germany was crucified in the First World War: Hidden for 100 years, the astonishing photos by 16-year-old soldier (Mail Online, 8 Mar 2014)
• In Esquimalt, German field guns found an escape from battlefield (Times-Colonist, 7 Mar 2014)
• Looking for WWI descendents for a battle recreation in Newfoundland (CBC Doc Zone, 4 Mar 2014)
• Stranded, arrested, but optimistic: student tells of being trapped behind WWI enemy lines (Kingston Guardian, 4 Mar 2014)
• Poignant memento of First World War soldier under the hammer (War News Online, 4 Mar 2014)
• Welsh soldier who died in Bedford during First World War training finally gains recognition (Bedfordshire News, 3 Mar 2014)
• A ‘year of peace,’ interrupted (National Post, 3 Mar 2014)
• Poignant love letters WWI soldier, 18, sent to his sweetheart before he died in battle (Mail Online, 3 Mar 2014)
• WWI hero remembered by Blaenau Gwent Council (South Wales Argus, 3 Mar 2014)
• World War One: Germany’s forgotten war (BBC News Magazine, 2 Mar 2014)
• Germany’s low-key plans for first world war centenary criticised (The Guardian, 2 Mar 2014)
• Bring the literary giants of the great war to life (The Guardian, 2 Mar 2014)
• Great War Centenary: Britannia rules the waves… but for how long? (The Express, 2 Mar 2014)
• City riddle of WWI soldier’s ID found in Sefton Park (Liverpool Echo, 1 Mar 2014)
• WW1 in Wales: The forgotten children who lost fathers (BBC Wales, 1 Mar 2014)

February 2014

• WW1 brothels: Why troops ignored calls to resist ‘temptation’ (BBC News England, 27 Feb 2014)
• First world war bravery was not confined to the soldiers (The Guardian, 27 Feb 2014)
• Rare collection of almost every original First World War recruitment poster discovered (The Express, 27 Feb 2014)
• The warrior priest: Incredible story of a clergyman who swapped his prayer book for a rifle … and won a Victoria Cross (Mail Online, 27 Feb 2014)
• Course to tell of Rupert’s role in war (The Northern View, 26 Feb 2014)
• World War One: Eleven shot at dawn in Tower of London (BBC News England, 25 Feb 2014)
• The Great War in Portraits review: ‘They were people, not statistics’ (The Guardian, 25 Feb 2014)
• WW1: Tragic Tale Of Headmaster, Who Lost 100 Boys To The Battlefields, Is Revealed (Huffington Post, 24 Feb 2014)
• WWI: Regiment’s appeal for photos of soldiers killed in action (The Daily Post, 24 Feb 2014)
• Talk of Great War anniversary reawakens memories of box of postcards sent from the front line (EADT24, 24 Feb 2014)
• First Women’s Institute was in Wales to help war effort (BBC News Wales, 24 Feb 2014)
• St. Pat’s graduate Teresa Iacobelli will speak on her first book March 14 (Sarnia Observer, 23 Feb 2014)
• The last post: letters home to India during the first world war (The Guardian, 21 Feb 2014)
• Losing one child in war is a terrible thing, so just imagine losing five (The Telegraph, 21 Feb 2014)
• The English expressions coined in WW1 (BBC News Magazine, 21 Feb 2014)
• One Welsh soldier’s incredible story of survival revealed (Wales Online, 20 Feb 2014)
• ACTRA honouree R. H. Thomson reflects on career and Great War project (The Windsor Star, 19 Feb 2014)
• First World War hero returned to run city pub (Exeter Express & Echo, 19 Feb 2014)
• Secret and deadly work of girls at Avonmouth’s mustard gas factory (The Bristol Post, 18 Feb 2014)
• The colonial troops who fought the Allies’ war (The Global Post, 18 Feb 2014)
• 1914 Derby Telegraph report finally told Pat of Derby grandad’s war ordeal (Derby Telegraph, 16 Feb 2014)
• When Harry met Sadie: Letters offer peek into First World War love (CTN News, 14 Feb 2014)
• 100 Years Later, Celebrating the Taxis That Saved Paris (New York Times, 14 Feb 2014)
• Discarded postcards found in charity shop tell story of WWI soldier… (Mail Online, 13 Feb 2014)
• Grandfather’s First World War medals back with family thanks to keen-eyed recycling centre worker (EDP24, 13 Feb 2014)
• Distant voices of the Great War that still speak of courage a century later (Yorkshire Post, 11 Feb 2014)
• Rare First World War trophies in Esquimalt echo Canada’s military past (VicNews, 10 Feb 2014)
• Docu-drama on forgotten Leith rail disaster (Edinburgh Evening News, 10 Feb 2014)
• An execution in the trenches witnessed by a Staffordshire soldier – and its mysterious sequel (Stoke Sentinel, 10 Feb 2014)
• Death of our best and brightest: Eton Rifles may have been ‘built for’ slaughter (Express, 9 Feb 2014)
• Mapping Scotland’s First World War (Herald Scotland, 9 Feb 2014)
• First World War battlefields reconsidered in sobering photographs (Ottawa Citizen, 7 Feb 2014)
• Forgotten Canada: Grisly scenes from the Great War and heartbreaking final send-offs to the Western Front (National Post, 5 Feb 2014)
• George’s final WW1 letter (Derbyshire Times, 5 Feb 2014)
• Bullet hole in First World War soldier’s wallet tells tale of amazing luck (Express, 5 Feb 2014)
• Incredible picture shows three Bristol brothers who fought very different wars (Bristol Post, 4 Feb 2014)
• First World War hero left priceless sketchbook of his wartime drawings (East Anglian Daily Times, 3 Feb 2014)
• Men of Worth – Captain Clough kept advancing (Keighley News, 1 Feb 2014)
• Royal misfit who caused The Great War (Express, 1 Feb 2014)
• World War History & Art Museum to Close in April (Alliance The Review, 1 Feb 2014)

January 2014

• ‘Gold dust’: Amazing photograph discovered of Britain’s brave World War One soldiers (Express, 31 Jan 2014)
• World War One: How did 12 million letters a week reach soldiers? (BBC News Magazine, 30 Jan 2014)
• Canadian tribute to immigrant Sikhs (Deccan Herald, 30 Jan 2014)
• Share your family’s links to the Great War (Herald News Nova Scotia, 29 Jan 2014)
• The man who invented poison gas: a horror story (The Telegraph, 29 Jan 2014)
• Rare tribunal records reveal First World War inpact on Leigh (Leigh Journal, 29 Jan 2014)
• National Gallery exhibition features giant photograph of Canadian soldiers in the historic First World War battle (Ottawa Citizen, 28 Jan 2014)
• Forgotten images from the Western Front (Mail Online, 28 Jan 2014)
• The First World War: Those who refused (Socialist Worker, 28 Jan 2014)
• Drunk, broke and obsessed with sex, the British Tommies of 1914 were unlikely heroes (The Express, 26 Jan 2014)
• Reading history, and why it still matters (The Barrie Examiner, 24 Jan 2014)
• How Black Soldiers Helped Britain In First World War (The Voice, 24 Jan 2014)
• When the Great War ambulance train visited Blackpool (The Gazette, 23 Jan 2014)
• World War One documents reveal stories of those who pleaded not to fight (The Telegraph, 22 Jan 2014)
• Britain’s Careful Celebration of WWI (Der Spiegel, 22 Jan 2014)
• First world war: memories of the last survivors (The Guardian, 22 Jan 2014)
• Collection of paintings at Calgary’s Military Museums mark centennial of First World War, PPCLI (Calgary Sun, 20 Jan 2014)
• Women and Industry in the First World War (The Economic Voice, 17 Jan 2014)
• WW1 dead and shell shock figures ‘significantly underestimated’ (The Telegraph, 16 Jan 2014)
• First world war: your photographs (The Guardian, 16 Jan 2014)
• Young more keen to learn about WWI than parents (The Local, 16 Jan 2014)
• WWI soldiers’ writing unearthed in Somme tunnels (BBC News Cumbia, 16 Jan 2014)
• Kitchener library wants you to adopt WWI soldiers (CBC News Kitchener-Waterloo, 15 Jan 2014)
• First world war: 15 legacies still with us today (The Guardian, 15 Jan 2014)
• First World War: love letters from the trenches (The Telegraph, 15 Jan 2014)
• WW1 soldier (Unit) diaries placed online by National Archives (BBC News, 14 Jan 2014)
• Melting glaciers in northern Italy reveal corpses of WW1 soldiers (The Telegraph, 13 Jan 2014)
• War graves ready for inspection as First World War centenary approaches (Western Daily Press, 13 Jan 2014)
• Dealing With the ‘Blackadder’ View of the First World War: The Need for an Inclusive, Bi-Partisan Centenary (RUSI Analysis, 13 Jan 2014)
• Mummy, what did you do in the War? (Lancashire Evening Post, 11 Jan 2014)
• How the First World War brought two communities together on the battlefields (The Impartial Reporter, 11 Jan 2014)
• Editorial: Don’t politicize war memorials (Times-Colonist, 10 Jan 2014)
• The first world war centenary should be about shared understanding, not political point-scoring (The Guardian, 10 Jan 2014)
• Commemorations of historic military events could put current force at risk, internal documents say (The Calgary Herald, 10 Jan 2014)
• Central Saanich pilot to commemorate Vimy Ridge with fly-past (Times-Colonist, 9 Jan 2014)
• Black Watch soldier secrets revealed after century wait (BBC News Scotland, 8 Jan 2014)
• We need to find lessons of peace in memory of the First World War (Evening News, 8 Jan 2014)
• Britain remembers the Great War (The Telegraph, 7 Dec 2014)
• British Red Cross awarded grant to digitise First World War documents on volunteering (Third Sector, 6 Jan 2014)
• Legacy of the Cursed World War (Express, 5 Jan 2014)
• WW1 trooper who rewrote history books (The Telegraph, 4 Jan 2014)
• World War I dog tag belonging to Private Cyril McCarthy returned to digger’s family (ABC News, 3 Jan 2014)
• Michael Gove criticises ‘Blackadder myths’ about First World War (The Telegraph, 3 Jan 2014)
• Alberta played huge role in First World War (Calgary Herald, 2 Jan 2014)
• Events to mark 100 years since start of first World War (The Irish Times, 2 Jan 2014)
• Agatha Christie’s war record gives clue to her plots with drugs and poison (London Evening Standard, 2 Jan 2014)

December 2013

• Scapa Flow treasure trove on brink of oblivion (The Scotsman, 29 Dec 2013)
• War Graves commission face major WWI challenge (The Scotsman, 28 Dec 2013)
• Revealed at last… secret diary of hell in trenches (Express, 27 Dec 2013)
• What if the Germans had won the first world war? (The Guardian, 25 Dec 2013)
• Scottish Rifles – the soldiers who refused to play ball at Christmas during First World War (The Telegraph, 22 Dec 2013)
• Look back with angst (The Economist, 21 Dec 2013)
• A monster off the British coast: Rusting hulk of World War One German U-boat emerges after almost a century (Mail Online, 20 Dec 2013)
• Ambitious plans for Great War Experience – with trench system – at Hawstead (Ipswich Star, 18 Dec 2013)
• Banjo a mystery from the First World War (The Vancouver Sun, 18 Dec 2013)
• Pupils research town soldiers for First World War centenary project (Burton Mail, 18 Dec 2013)
• As we move towards the Great War’s centenary, it’s time to recognise the reality of its horror (The Independent, 15 Dec 2013)
• The Shock of the Frontline: Psychological Trauma in the Great War (The History Vault, 14 Dec 2013)
• Makers, Recyclers and Pop-Up Cities of the Great War (Wired, 14 Dec 2013)
• The Great War’s Omnibus Echoes (The New York Times, 13 Dec 2013)
• ‘Unsung’ London war bus brought back to life (BBC News London, 12 Dec 2013)
• New pitch to commemorate war match (The Belfast Telegraph, 7 Dec 2013)
• First World War project to tell little-known stories of the artists (The Telegraph, 7 Dec 2013)
• Picturing World War I (The New York Times, 6 Dec 2013)
• His precious: The revolver JRR Tolkien carried with him in the trenches of WWI… (Mail Online, 3 Dec 2013)
• The soldier who just refused to give up (The Daily Mail Online, 1 Dec 2013)

November 2013

• Winnipeg woman reunited with uncle’s missing war medal (CBC News Manitoba, 29 Nov 2013)
• The Western Front’s dogs of war revealed (The Telegraph, 28 Nov 2013)
• New B.C. book unearths Chinese labourers’ secret role in First World War (The Georgia Straight, 27 Nov 2013)
• ‘War Stories, Our Stories, Your Stories’ – Commemorating the First World War at the State Library of New South Wales (First World War Centenary, 21 Nov 2013)
• Winnie the Pooh and The Great War (Wokingham Remembers, 18 Nov 2013)
• Way We Were: First World War gunner had life in poverty in the workhouse (Stoke Sentinel, 16 Nov 2013)
• More to the story than pride and glory (The Telegram, 16 Nov 2013)
• Manitoba honours last four of its First World War Victoria Cross recipients with lakes named after them near Thompson (Thompson Citizen, 15 Nov 2013)
• Slang and swear words ‘helped soldiers survive the First World War’ (BBC History Extra, 11 Nov 2013)
• Youngest soldier, 13, fought in the trenches at the Somme for six weeks before his mother… (Mail Online, 11 Nov 2013)
• The birth of the War Graves Commission – and the furious controversy it sparked (The Independent, 10 Nov 2013)
• Remembrance Day, Canadian War Museum, poppies & John McCrae (Canadian Roadstories, 9 Nov 2013)
• Man’s burial an act of dignity, and defiance, in wartime (Times-Colonist, 8 Nov 2013)
• How to research your WWI family history (The Telegraph, 8 Nov 2013)
• Exhibitions charting World War I Scots to be held (The Scotsman, 6 Nov 2013)
• Step Short Folkestone creates digital archive of 42,000 names of those destined for Western Front (Centenary News, 6 Nov 2013)
• Remembrance must be more than a ceremony (The Airdrie Echo, 5 Nov 2013)
• Campaign for Britain’s overlooked war graves (The Telegraph, 5 Nov 2013)
• WW1 Memories: My Grandfather’s Story (The Guardian, 3 Nov 2013)