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Sanctuary Wood museum preserved trenches, in the Ypres SalientEncyclopedia of World War I: S
Updated - Saturday, 27 May, 2006

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.

The encyclopedia is grouped alphabetically. This page lists entries grouped under the letter 'S'.

Said Halim Pasha
Sabelli, Giovanni
Sacred Route (Voie Sacree)
Salandra, Antonio
Salay, Julius (Life in the Trenches Audio, 1916)
Samarrah Offensive
Samsonov, Alexander
Sanctuary Wood Cemetery
Sanctuary Wood Museum
Sandbags
Sandes, Flora
Sandfontein, Battle of
San Giuliano, Marquis di
Sap-head; Listening Post
Sap-head, Memoir of
Sapper, Memoir of a
Sarajevo - Film Footage of Archduke Franz Ferdinand
Sari Bair, Battle of
Sari Bair, Battle of - Ellis Ashmead-Bartlett's Account
Sari Bair, Battle of - German Officer's View
Sari Bair, Battle of - Lord Kitchener's Report
Sari Bair, Battle of - Sir Ian Hamilton's Report
Sarrail, Maurice
Sartorius, Esmee - August 1914 (Memoir)
Sassoon, Siegfried
Sassoon, Siegfried (Absolution)
Sassoon, Siegfried (The Rear-guard)
Satire - Satirical Magazines of the First World War
Saunders, George - On New German Constitution
Saunders, Harold - Trenches at Vimy Ridge (Memoir)
Sazonov, Sergei
Scapa Flow
Scapa Flow, Scuttling of
Scarborough and Hartlepool, Raid on
Scaroni, Silvio
Scheer, Reinhardt
Scheidemann, Philipp
Schenck & Van - I Don't Want To Get Well (Song 1918)
Schlanke Emma
Schlieffen, Alfred von
Schlieffen Plan
Schlieper, Rear-Admiral - Reaction to Fall of Tsingtao
Schönburg-Hartenstein, Alois Fürst
Schools, UK and Recruitment
Schroder, Ludwig von
Schwarzlose Gun
Scimitar Hill, Battle of
Scorched Earth Tactics
Scott-Moncrieff, Charles (Back in Billets)
Scott-Moncrieff, Charles (Domum)
Scott-Moncrieff, Charles (Field of Honour, The)
Scott-Moncrieff, Charles (Willow-tree Bough, The)
Sea, Memoir of War at
Sea, Photographs of the War at
Sea, Race to the
Sea Scouts
Sea, War at
Second International
Seeckt, Hans von
Seeger, Alan
Self-inflicted wounds (SIW)
Send Me Away With a Smile (Song, 1917)
Serbia, Appeal to Russia for Assistance, 1914
Serbia, Austrian Statement re: Military Campaign, 1914
Serbia, Austrian Ultimatum to and Reply, 1914
Serbia, Belgian Reaction to Austrian Ultimatum, 1914
Serbia, British Reaction to Austrian Ultimatum, 1914 (1)
Serbia, British Reaction to Austrian Ultimatum, 1914 (2)
Serbia, Bulgarian Rejection of Atrocity Allegations
Serbia, Corfu Declaration
Serbia During the First World War
Serbia, Erich von Falkenhayn on the Fall of
Serbia, French Reaction to Austrian Ultimatum, 1914
Serbia, Kaiser Wilhelm on Austrian Ultimatum, 1914
Serbia, League of Neutral Countries' Report, 1917
Serbia, Memoir of Great Retreat
Serbia, Montenegro on Creation of Greater Serbia
Serbia, Prince Alexander on Greater Serbia
Serbia, Ultimatum to Serbia (Accompanying Letter), 1914
Serbia, U.S. Reaction to Austrian Ultimatum, 1914
Serbia, von Cramon on the Fall of
Serbia, Yugoslav Committee on Greater Serbia
Sergeant Solomon Isaacstein - Guy Harris (Song, 1916)
Service, Robert
Servicemen's Centres, U.S.
Severyuk, Alexander - On Brest-Litovsk Peace Treaty
Shaiba, Battle of
Shanks, Edward (Good Wishes)
Shanks, Edward (Low Germany)
Shanks, Edward (Marching at Home: Pictures)
Shanks, Edward (On Account Of Ill Health)
Sharp-shooter; Franc-Tireur
Sharp, William - On Aftermath of Hindenburg Retreat
Sharp, William - On Early Use of the Paris Gun
Sharqat, Battle of
Shatrov - God Save The Tsar! (Song, 1903)
Shcherbachev, Dmitry
Sheikh Sa'ad, Battle of
Shell Scandal
Shell Shock
Shell Shock - Repression of War Experience (1917)
Shelters; Dug-outs
Sheridan, Mark - Belgium Put The Kibosh... (Song, 1915)
Shiala, Battle of
Shook, Alexander
Shout, Alfred
Shrapnel
Shrapnel Corner
Shuvaev, Dmitry
Siam (Thailand) and the First World War
Sidney's in Civvies Again - Vesta Tilley (1919)
Sikh Contribution (Feature Article)
Silver Helmets, Battle of the
Simpson, John
Sims, William
Sinclair, May
Sister Susie's Sewing Shirts - J. Charman (Song, 1914)
Sitwell, Osbert
Sitwell, Osbert (Babel)
Sitwell, Osbert (Tears)
SIW (Self-inflicted wounds)
Sketches, Wartime
Slang, Trench
Smirnov, Ivan
Smith-Barry, Robert
Smith-Dorrien, Horace
Smith-Dorrien, Horace - 1914 Film Footage of
Smoke Clouds - Payne, Herbert (Song 1917)
Smuts, Jan Christian
Smyth, Nevill Maskelyne
Snipers
Solf, Wilhelm
Somer Farm Cemetery
Somewhere in France... - Stanley Kirkby (Song)
Somewhere in France is a Lily - Henry Burr (Song)
Somme, Battle of the
Somme, Battle of the - Crown Prince Rupprecht's Report
Somme, Battle of the - Official German Account
Somme, Battle of the - Philip Gibbs' Account
Somme, Battle of the - Sir Douglas Haig's Despatch
Somme, Lochnagar Crater
Somme, Memoir of (1)
Somme, Memoir of (2)
Somme, Memoir of and Resultant Prisoner-of-War
Somme River
Somme, Thiepval Memorial to the Missing
Sonnino, Sidney
Sonnino, Sidney - Opening Address at Versailles
Sorley, Charles Hamilton
Sorley, Charles Hamilton (A Letter From the Trenches...)
Sorley, Charles Hamilton (Army of Death, The)
Sorley, Charles Hamilton (To Germany)
Sorley, Charles Hamilton (Two Sonnets)
Souchon, Wilhelm
South Africa, Delville Wood Cemetery
South Africa, Delville Wood Memorial
Spain During the First World War
Spanbroekmolen Cemetery
Spanbroekmolen Crater
Spandau Gun
Spartacist Uprising in Berlin 1918-19
Spee, Maximilian von
Spoilbank Cemetery
Spring Offensive - Arz von Straussenberg on
Spring Offensive - Hindenburg on Opening of
Spring Offensive - Ludendorff on Opening of
Spring Offensive - Memoir of Retreat During 1918
Squeak (Pip, Squeak and Wilfred)
Stabbed in the Back - Ludendorff on German Army
Stalluponen, Battle of
Stamboliski, Alexander
Stand-To
Star Shell
St Charles de Potyze
Steinacker, von - Official Account of Somme Offensive
St Eloi Craters
Stepanovic, Stepa
Sterling, R. W. (Bonny, Bonny Braes, The)
Sterling, R. W. (Historic Oxford)
Sterling, R. W. (Last Lines)
Sterling, R. W. (River Bathe, The)
St Etienne Gun
St George's Memorial Church
St Julien, Canadian Memorial, Brooding Soldier
St Julien, Memoir of action at
St Mihiel - Crown Prince Wilhelm on Battle of
St Mihiel - John J Pershing on Battle of
St Mihiel - Max von Gallwitz on Battle of
Stockholm Conference
Stones, William - Executed at Dawn
Stoger-Steiner von Steinstatten, Rudolf
Stokes, Wilfred
Stones, William
Stony Broke in No Man's Land - Frank Miller (1921)
Stopford, Frederick
Stramm, August
Straussenberg, Arz von
Straussenberg, Arz von - On the German Army, 1918
Streets, John W. (Love of Life)
Stresemann, Gustav
Strict Accountability Warning, U.S. to Germany, 1915
Sturdee, Frederick
Sturgkh, Karl von
Sturmer, Boris
Sublime Porte
Submarines; Deutschland's Arrival in U.S., 1916
Submarines; Deutschland's Arrival in U.S. - Allied Protest
Submarines; Deutschland's Arrival in U.S. - U.S. Statement
Suckling, F. - The Circus (Memoir)
Suez Canal, Defence of the
Suffragettes - Footage of Epsom Derby 1913
Sugar - Ernie Mayne (Song 1917)
Suk, Grigory
Sukhomlinov, Vladimir
Sulzbach, Herbert
Sunken Lane
Supreme War Council
Sussex, Sinking of
Suvla Bay, Landings at
Suvla Bay, Memoir of Evacuation of
Suvla Bay, Memoir of Flood at
Swinton, Ernest
Swinton, Ernest - Journalist Reports 1914 (1st Aisne)
Swinton, Ernest - Journalist Reports 1914 (1st Ypres)
Sykes-Picot Agreement, 1916

A "lazy liz" was a heavy artillery shell fired by the Allied battleship Queen Elizabeth.

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