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Albert, near the Somme battlefields This area of the website provides an A-Z listing of First World War terms, personalities, biographical sketches, battles, weaponry, etc.

All material listed by category elsewhere in the site is contained within this section. Conversely many articles are solely listed within the encyclopedia given that they do not sit comfortably within any existing category.

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Articles
Article Aba Daba Honeymoon - Collins & Harlan (1914)
Article Abdication Proclamation, Emperor Karl I
Article Abdication Proclamation, Kaiser Wilhelm II (1)
Article Abdication Proclamation, Kaiser Wilhelm II (2)
Article Abdication Proclamation, Tsar Ferdinand I
Article Abdication Proclamation, Tsar Nicholas II
Article Aboukir, Memoir of Sinking of, 1914
Article Aboukir, British Report on Sinking of, 1914
Article Abruzzi, Duke of the
Article Acceptance Speech - Warren G Harding (1919)
Article Aces, Air
Article Aces, Top Air
ArticleAchi Baba, Attack on
Article Actions, Principal
Article Adams, Finding Private (Feature Article)
Article Adler, Viktor
Article Admiralty Declaration, German, 1915
Article Aegean Sea, Memoir of action in
Article Aeroplane Cemetery
Article African Wars
Article AIF Burial Ground
Article Air Aces
Article Air Aces, Top
Article Air Force Cross
Article Air Force Medal
Article Air Service, Australian
Article Air Service, Belgian
Article Air Service, Memoir of Aug-Nov 1918
Article Air Service, Memoir of Flying Circus
Article Air Service, Memoir of Service in
Article Air War, The (Site Section)
Article Airship, Coastal Class
Article Airship, Sea Scout
Article Aisne, 1st Battle of the
ArticleAisne, 1st Battle of the - British Order of the Day
Article Aisne, 1st Battle of the - Journalist's Report
Article Aisne, 2nd Battle of the
Article Aisne, 2nd Battle of the - Erich Ludendorff on
Article Aisne, 2nd Battle of the - Kaiser Wilhelm on
ArticleAisne, 2nd Battle of the - Paul Painleve on
Article Aisne, Forgotten Boys of the
Article Aisne, 3rd Battle of the
Article Aitken, Arthur Edward
Article Aitken, William
Article A. J. (Tryst, The)
Article Albert
ArticleAlbert, First Battle of
Article Albert I, King of Belgium
Article Albert I, Address to Belgian Parliament, 4 Aug 1914
Article Albrecht, Duke
Article Alchin, Gordon (A Song of the Plane)
Article Alchin, Gordon (Per Ardua ad Astra)
Article Alchin, Gordon (Reconnaissance)
Article Alchin, Gordon (The Road)
Article Alchin, Gordon (Two Pictures)
Article Alderson, Sir Edwin
Article Aldington, Richard
Article Alexander I, King of Yugoslavia
Article Alexander of Greece - Inaugural Proclamation
Article Alexander of Greece - Address to Greek Parliament
Article Alexander - Footage of Serbian Regent in 1914
Article Alexander, Prince of Serbia - On Greater Serbia
Article Alexandra, Tsarina
Article Alexandra, Tsarina - Footage, 1914
Article Alexeev, Mikhail
Article Allen, James
Article Allenby, Edmund
Article Allenby, Edmund - Declaration of Marshal Law in Jerusalem
Article Allenby, Edmund - On Battle of Megiddo
Article Allenby, Edmund - On Fall of Jerusalem
Article Alliances (Entente and Central Powers)
Article Allied War Medal (Inter-Allied Victory Medal)
Article Allies, the (wartime alliance)
Article Allmenroder, Karl
Article Alpine Troops (Italian) - Monte Canino (Song, 1917)
Article Alsace, French Proclamation on Invasion of, 1914
Article Amara, Capture of
Article Ambrogi, Jean Paul Elzeard
Article Ambulance Drivers, Literary
Article America Here's My Boy - Peerless Quartet (Song, 1918)
Article American Quartet - Goodbye Broadway... (Song, 1919)
Article American Quartet - It's A Long Way To... (Song, 1914)
Article American Quartet - Oh Johnny, Oh... (Song, 1917)
Article American Quartet - Oh You Beautiful Doll (Song, 1912)
Article American Quartet - Yanks are at it Again (Song, 1918)
Article American Quartet - You're a Grand Old Flag (Song, 1918)
Article American Rights - McAdoo, William (Speech, 1917)
Article Amiens, Battle of - Paul von Hindenburg on
Article Amiens, Battle of - Philip Gibbs on
Article Ancre Cemetery
Article Andrassy, Julius
Article Angelscu, Constantine - On Romania's War, 1917
Article Angels of Mons
Article Anglo-Japanese Alliance, 1902
Article Anglo-Russian Entente, 1907
Article Animals, Photographs of
Article Anonymous - A Padre's Story (Memoir)
Article Anonymous - The Fall of Liege (Memoir)
Article Anthoine, Francois
Article Antwerp, Siege of
Article Antwerp, Siege of - Account by Arthur Conan Doyle
Article Antwerp, Siege of - Account by de Gommery
Article Antwerp, Siege of - Account by Erich von Falkenhayn
ArticleAntwerp, Siege of - Account by Winston Churchill
Article Any Soldier To His Son (Anonymous Poem)
Article Anzac Cove and Helles, Landings at
Article Anzac Cove, Turkish Attack at
Article Aosta, Duke
Article Apollinaire, Guillaume
Article April Theses, Lenin's, 1917
ArticleArab Revolt - Sharif Hussein's 1916 Proclamation
Article Arab Revolt - Ulema's Proclamation of Support for Hussein
Article Ardennes, Battle of the
Article Are We Downhearted? (Song 1914)
Article Argeyev, Pavel
Article Argyll & Sutherland Highlanders Memorial
Article Arigi, Julius
Article Armenian Massacres; 1915 Bryce Report into
Article Armenian Massacres; 1916 German Memoir
Article Armenian Massacres; Talaat Pasha's Orders
Article Armistice Negotiations, British Eyewitness Account
Article Armistice Negotiations, French Eyewitness Account
Article Armistice Negotiations, German High Command
Article Armistice Negotiations, German High Command's Deceit
Article Armistice Negotiations, Hindenburg and Foch
Article Armistice Negotiations, Hindenburg's Appeal for Peace
Article Armistice Negotiations, Russo-German (German Report)
Article Armistice Negotiations, Russo-German (Trotsky on)
Article Armistice, Summary of Allied-German
Article Armistice Terms, 1918 (Bulgarian-Allied)
Article Armistice Terms, 1917 (Russo-German)
Article Armistice Terms, 1918 (Western Front)
Article Armistice - Sir Frederick Maurice on
Article Armistice - Woodrow Wilson on (1)
Article Armistice - Woodrow Wilson on (2)
Article Arras, First Battle of
Article Arthur, C. J. - A Boy's Experiences (Memoir)
Article Artillery - Creeping Barrage
Article Artillery, Memoir of Service in
Article Artillery, Photographs of
Article Artillery - Preliminary Bombardment
Article Ashmead-Bartlett's Letter to Asquith, 1915
Article Ashmead-Bartlett's Account of Battle of Sari Bair
Article Ashmore, Edward
Article Asiago, Battle of
Article Asiago, Battle of - German Military Observer's Report
Article Asiago, Battle of - Italian Statement
Article Asiago, Battle of - U.S. Ambassador's Summary
Article Asquith, Herbert
Article Asquith, Herbert - Speech to Parliament, 6 Aug 1914
Article Asquith, Herbert (To a Baby Found Paddling Near...)
Article Asquith, Herbert (War's Cataract)
Article Asquith, Margot - August 1914 (Speech, 1918)
Article Atkins, Thomas ('Tommy')
Article At The Front - Baker, Newton (Speech, 1917)
Article Auchonvillers Cemetery
Article Auffenberg, Moritz von
Article Augagneur, Jean
Article Au Revoir, But Not Goodbye - P. Quartet (Song, 1918)
Article Australian Flying Corps, History of
Article Austria, Belgian Reaction to Ultimatum to Serbia, 1914
Article Austria, British Reaction to Ultimatum to Serbia, 1914 (1)
Article Austria, British Reaction to Ultimatum to Serbia, 1914 (2)
Article Austria, French Reaction to Ultimatum to Serbia, 1914
Article Austria, Peace with U.S., 1921
Article Austria, Romania's Declaration of War with, 1916
Article Austria, Statement re: Military Campaign in Serbia, 1914
Article Austria, U.S. Reaction to Ultimatum to Serbia, 1914
Article Austrian Ministerial Council Meeting Minutes, 1914
Article Austrian Official Report on Assassination
Article Austria, Kaiser Wilhelm on Ultimatum to Serbia, 1914
Article Austrian Ultimatum to Serbia, 1914
Article Austrian Ultimatum to Serbia (Accompanying Letter), 1914
Article Austria's Declaration of War with Italy, 1915
Article Austria's Declaration of War with Serbia, 1914
Article Austria-Hungary, U.S. Declaration of War with, 1917
Article Authuille Cemetery
Article Aveluy Wood Cemetery
Article Averescu, Alexandru
Article Aviation, Photographs of

A "Bangalore Torpedo" was an explosive tube used to clear a path through a wire entanglement.

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