Resources for study of the local impact of the Great War

(You can find links to national websites on our Links page. The national WFA site has many resources for schools, listed by Key Stage.)

On this site:

• The Local Heroes feature has:
  
  
  • accounts of three men born locally who emigrated to countries in the (then) Empire, and returned to Europe to fight during the Great War - their names are on local War Memorials.
    
    
  • an account of the difficulty of finding out about Private F. Nicholls, from Bletchley whose grave was found in a French cemetery - he is not mentioned on any local war memorials.
    
    
• In the Miscellany section there are a number of items that may be of interest:
  
  

  	Photo gallery	Photos of Ieper (Ypres), 1936-39 This set of photos belongs to WFA MK member Harry Canvin.
  	Photo gallery of book	The British Legion Battle Field Pilgrimage 1928. Read the guide book here. This was the first BL Pilgrimage. The book was passed to me by WFA MK member, Harry Canvin. I asked the BL for their agreement to publish this here - they have not had the courtesy to reply, so I consider I have done all I need to do.
  	Photo gallery	The German GHQ at Spa, Belgium, March to November 1918: slides belonging to WFA MK member Harry Canvin
  	Report and photos	90 Years On: The Ceremony at the Cenotaph 2008 report by Jane Backhouse
  	Report & photos	Regional Seminar, October 18th 2008
  	Resource	Milton Keynes Memorials Trail a pamphlet to download
  	Poems	British Legion Cranfield Remembrance Competition winners
  	Report & photos	Pioneers & Heroes Exhibition Middleton Hall, January 22nd & 23rd 2008
  	Poems	Poems by Robert Stodden written 5th December 1915
  	Illustrated article	A Day in the Salient with Bernard Comyn by Ian Chambers, August 2007
  	Book review	"To The Front And Back: four and a half years in the life of an infantryman" by Peter Kent, WFA-MK member
  	Report & photos	Heritage Open Day event, 9th September 2007
  	Article	Tribute to our Founder, Dorothy Mann
  	Poem	In Flanders Fields, by John McCrae
  	Article	The Discharge Badge
  	Article	Elsie Inglis 1864-1917 by Dr Eric Webb
  	Article	Military Medicine on the Western Front by Dr Eric Webb This is on Eric's website and will open in a new browser window
  	Article	Postcards from the Front 1914-18 This is on Eric's website and will open in a new browser window
  	Article	On-Line Data for Free by Dr Eric Webb

On other local sites:

Other local websites also have useful information about the experience of the Great War in the Milton Keynes area:

• Echoes of the Great War: this presents materials gathered for an exhibition at Stantonbury linked to a produciton of "Oh What a Lovely War!". There are lots of examples of the Great War in the family histories of people now living locally. There are also two features about events in Wolverton during the War (access them from the home page of the Echoes site):

• The McCorquodales Strike
  
  
• The Ambulance Train
  
  
• The Living Archive, in particuluar:
  
  
  • the Letters of Albert French, who lived in Woverton and died in on the front in France at the age of only 16;
    
    
  • Days of Pride about life in New Bradwell at that time, as told by Hawtin Mundy, who fought in the Great War.