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== Recent suggestions ==
 
== Recent suggestions ==
 
A document suggested via the [https://mia2.typeform.com/to/dkhC4B form] was part of correspondence between two men, so it added personal accounts to an Australian and a British battalion with just one link! Thanks to them pages for the [[1/4th Battalion, Royal Berkshire Regiment, British infantry]] and [[5th Battalion, Australian Imperial Force (AIF)]] now exist and have links to documents created by a soldier in each battalion.
 
A document suggested via the [https://mia2.typeform.com/to/dkhC4B form] was part of correspondence between two men, so it added personal accounts to an Australian and a British battalion with just one link! Thanks to them pages for the [[1/4th Battalion, Royal Berkshire Regiment, British infantry]] and [[5th Battalion, Australian Imperial Force (AIF)]] now exist and have links to documents created by a soldier in each battalion.
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You can also [http://collaborativecollections.org/WorldWarOne/index.php?namespace=0&title=Special%3ARecentChanges view pages recently edited on this wiki].

Revision as of 17:01, 23 November 2014

There are hundreds or thousands of personal accounts of the war online, whether on large sites like Europeana 1914-1918, national libraries and archives, or individual diaries transcribed and posted online through small local projects. The challenge is to link these personal accounts by creating links from the individual who wrote them to their military unit.

In this phase of the project, the aim is find a personal narrative - a diary, letters, memoirs or images - for each military battalion or regiment in the Allied Armies.

Have you got a few free minutes to take on a small research challenge?

Getting started is easy:

  1. Take one of the personal diaries, letters or memoirs listed
  2. Match its author with a regiment or battalion.
  3. Send in the results via this form or edit the wiki directly to add their diary to the relevant battalion or regiment page

Other ways you can help

  • Add other personal or official diaries, memoirs and letters you know about to this site. If you're not used to wikis, use this form to suggest a link.
  • Spread the word! Tell your local history group, museum, library or archive about this project and suggest they add any diaries they know about
  • Add resources for researching World War One records to the wiki
  • Help fill in the battalions for each regiment. Some battalions are already listed in the country pages on the left-hand side. A good source for detailed battalion listings is the Long, Long Trail's page for the British infantry of 1914-1918
  • Add detail for battalions through 'infoboxes' that describe how different military units were related to each other (this one is a bit more technical, contact Mia for more information).

If you've got a diary you want to add now, search for their regiment or battalion - if the page doesn't already exist you will be prompted to create it. If you're not used to wikis, use this form to suggest a link. You can can also click on any red-linked page name to create that page.

Don't worry about doing it perfectly, any help is better than none and it's easy to gradually improve wiki pages!

Recent suggestions

A document suggested via the form was part of correspondence between two men, so it added personal accounts to an Australian and a British battalion with just one link! Thanks to them pages for the 1/4th Battalion, Royal Berkshire Regiment, British infantry and 5th Battalion, Australian Imperial Force (AIF) now exist and have links to documents created by a soldier in each battalion.

You can also view pages recently edited on this wiki.