Military Information

• Library and Archives Canada: A good jumping-in point, it has a large and growing collection of wartime records. For example, its index of Canadians involved in the First World War often includes a soldier's signature, next of kin, a physical description and in some cases a photo.

• Project 44 is an online map of the western front during WW2 and includes maps, war diaries and is continually digitiizing more war diaries or that theatre

• Canadian Virtual War Memorial: An extensive database of the location of military graves, and an option to order a copy of a specific soldier's entry in the Book of Remembrance. which is maintained by the Dept. of Veterans Affairs and dedicated to those Canadians who died in all wars in service to their country.

• Commonwealth War Graves Commission: Personal and service details and places of commemoration for the 1.7 million members of the Commonwealth forces who died in the First or Second World Wars.

• FindAGrave.com: Not limited to the military, it can help locate the gravesites of specific people and has photos of cemeteries and graves.

• Canadian Post War Military and Dependent Graves: Burial locations of service members and their dependents who died outside of Canada and the USA but were not returned to Canada.

• Valour Canada Extensive records on Canadian military history, anecdotes,, etc

• Cyndi's List: This site gathers lists of links to useful genealogy research sites. There's an extensive list of military sites, databases and help forums.

• FamilySearch.org: A jump-off point to multiple databases and resources. For guides to finding military information, follow the "Learn" link at the top of the page, click on "Research Courses," and choose "Military" from the left-hand column.

• Canadian Merchant Navy  An index of merchant sailors and their ships.

• WorldVitalRecords.com: A collection of everything from personal information to tombstone photos.

• AutomatedGenealogy.com: Links to census information and wartime databases.

• Genealogylinks.net: A collection of links to smaller Canadian military archive sites.

• FindMyPast.co.uk: This United Kingdom-centric site includes military records pertaining to other countries.

• Odessa3.org: A genealogical library drawing on sources of information about people of German and Russian descent

Good background on the First World War

• Prisoner of War Records  

• Military abbreviations of the Canadian Army

http://www.1914-1918-online.net/06_WWI_websites/index.html list of ww1 websites.

International Encyclopedia of the First World War 

https://encyclopedia.1914-1918-online.net/home/

Best History Site

Eyewitness to History - first hand accounts of key events in the war

Medals - for sale and for info

Marway Militaria - Winnepeg source for medals and info

Army Surplus World - medals and other items

Newspapers

Canada

BC Historical Newspapers UBC - BC newspaper archives - free

Peel.library University of Alberta - Prairie province newspaper archives - free

www.ancestry.com/search/rectype/periodicals/news/main.htm

www.godfrey.org – Godfrey memorial library.

Britain

http://www.britishnewspaperarchive.co.uk  - British newspapers

https://www.nls.uk/collections/newspapers - This is the National Library of Scotland newspaper site.

https://www.thegazette.co.uk/ - The London Gazette newspaper archives.  http://catalogue.nrscotland.gov.uk/nrsonlinecatalogue/welcome.aspx

International bomber command losses database   crews, info on deaths

Military History

Library and Archives Canada Military Personnel records.

Gathering our Heros - a compendium of Chatham Kent War vets

https://www.forces-war-records.co.uk/

http://www.irishwarmemorials.ie/

Canadian Great War Project -  A member/reader project to identify and tell the story of Canadian Veterans of WW1

http://ww1.canada.com/memory-project

https://www.cwgc.org/ - Commonwealth War Graves Commission.

http: //www.greatwar.co.uk/research/family-history/trace-ww1-british-soldier.htm

http://www.608dukes.com/uploads/8/5/5/1/8551447/cf_manual_of_abbreviations.pdf - miliary abbreviations.

https://army.ca/wiki/index.php/Canadian_Military_Acronyms - Canadian Military Abbreviations

http://www.inflandersfields.be/en - Flanders Field

https://www.familytreemagazine.com/premium/ww1-genealogy-websites/  - lists good military sites and gives information about each.

http://www.firstworldwar.com/

http://www.canadaatwar.ca/forums/

http://1914-1918.invisionzone.com/forums/ - the Great War forum – the best

https://www.thegazette.co.uk/ - official newspaper for war reports

http://www.roll-of-honour.com/ - British site

http://www.iwm.org.uk/memorials/search?utm_source=ukniwm&utm_medium=rw&utm_campaign=wmalaunch

http://www.1914-1918.net/links.htm

http://www.militaryhistoryonline.com/forums/ - good source for American battles from the Civil war on.

http://www.wartimepress.com/

https://legionmagazine.com/en

http://scottishmilitaryresearch.co.uk/ - Scottish Military information

Canadian Military History  

https://mspace.lib.umanitoba.ca/bitstream/handle/1993/5271/Abra_Glennis.pdf?sequence=1  #5 General Hospital history

http://onlinebooks.library.upenn.edu/webbin/serial?id=cdnnurse

http://www.militaryhistoryonline.com/forums/ - good source for American battles from the Civil war on.

http://www.wartimepress.com/

https://legionmagazine.com/en

http://scottishmilitaryresearch.co.uk/ - Scottish Military information

http://onlinebooks.library.upenn.edu/webbin/serial?id=cdnnurse – Canadian nurse magazine

https://www.wrecksite.eu/wreck.aspx?96349 – website with shipping wrecks and ships registries )

http://www.convoyweb.org.uk – the convoys of WW2

http://www.daileyint.com/seawar/apfjtwas.htm - santa elena blogs and stories etc.

USA

• American Civil War Website provided by the National Park System - Soldiers and Sailors Database

• American Battle Monuments Commission - US WWI and WWII burials

• Civil War soldiers and sailors database  - National park service database.