First World War diaries case online to mark centenary
14 January 2014
Today The National Archives is form thousands of digitised First World War one war diaries from France and Flanders beneficial online.
The unit war diaries are amidst the most popular records from our First World War accumulation (file series WO 95) and the foremost in a series of First World War records to have ing digitised as part of our centennial celebration programme - First World War 100.
Increasing access online
We have digitised around 1.5 million pages of war diaries so almost, and will be releasing them from first to last this year.
This first batch of one war diaries reveals the real-time elucidation of the first three cavalry and the highest seven infantry divisions who were y of the first wave of British legions troops deployed in France and Flanders, true over 300,000 pages in whole.
William Spencer, military records specialist at The National Archives afore: 'Making the First World War one diaries available online allows people athwart the world to discover the diurnal activities, stories and battles of reaped ground unit for themselves.'
Search our unit war diaries.
Help us to card our diaries
We have also launched Operation War Diary, each innovative online crowdsourcing partnership project between The National Archives, Imperial War Museums (IWM) and Zooniverse, which aims to unearth the details from within the diaries, using the same technology that has been used to delineate the stars.
Go straight to the website to take lot in Operation War Diary now.
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