Great War Centenary
Contents
- Introduction
- History
- Military
- Military Depots
- Military Headquarters
- Coastal Defences
- Anti-aircraft Batteries
- Pillboxes
- Drill Halls
- Training Areas and Camps
- Rifle Ranges
- Prisoner of War Camps
- Internment Camps
- Sound Mirrors
- Airship Bases
- Airfields
- Seaplane Bases
- Naval Establishments
- Naval Vessels
- Caring for Casualties
- Military Hospitals
- Royal Naval Hospitals
- Army Hospitals
- Royal Air Force Hospitals
- Territorial Force Hospitals
- Southern General Hospital
- Northern General Hospital
- Eastern General Hospital
- Western General Hospital
- Scottish General Hospitals
- London General Hospitals
- Canadian Convalescent Hospital
- New Zealand General Hospital No 1
- War Hospitals
- Voluntary Support
- Auxiliary Hospitals
- War Hospital Supply Depots
- Supporting the War Effort
- Manufacturing
- Munitions
- National Munitions Factories
- Airships and Aircraft
- Shipyards
- Mining
- North Wales Manganese Mines
- State Management Scheme
- Hostilities and incidents on British soil
- Aerial
- Naval
- Army
- Easter Rising
- Memorials
- National Memorials
- National Memorial Arboretum
- Naval Memorials
- Regimental and Battalion Memorials
- Divisional Memorials
- War Memorials
- Battlefield Crosses
- Animals in War
- Drinking Troughs
- Memorial Benches
- Poppies
- Ulster Murals
- Memorial Hospitals
- Memorial Halls
- Memorial Parks and Gardens
- Memorial Clock Towers
- Memorial Arches
- Memorial Windows
- Thankful Villages
- Statues
- Centenary Memorials
- War Cemeteries
- Centenary Commemorations
- Events
- Reconstructions
- Commemorative Installations
- Blood Swept Lands and Seas of Red
- Weeping Window
- Wave
- Miscellany
- Tanks, trains, guns, shells and mines
- Songs and Entertainment
- Private air raid shelter
- Belgian Refugees
- Refugee billets
- Token of thanks and memorials
- Other
- War Poetry and Authors
- Hedd Wyn
- Francis Ledwidge
- Wilfred Owen
- Rupert Brooke
- Isaac Rosenberg
- Charles Sorley
- Edward Thomas
- Laurence Binyon
- JRR Tolkien
- Links
Introduction
As a collaborative project Geograph contributors have many diverse interests and over the last decade have taken photographs of the Great War sites, memorials and centenary commemorations throughout the British Isles. This article will try to bring together for a larger audience the main themes with links to more detailed articles and studies prepared by contributors. I aim also to pick up some of the local and hidden stories discovered by chance along the way.
The Roll of Honour at tanners, Robt. Jowitt and Sons, Highbury Mill in Bradford shows the impact on the working man caught up in the conflict. Of the forty eight employees that went to war only thirty nine survived. What is not recorded is that of the survivors two thirds would have been wounded or have long-term disabilities.

In the parish of Rendlesham in Suffolk, forty one of the forty eight listed men returned. Five had been prisoners of war, three wounded and three invalided out.

In the parish of Llanhawden in Pembrokeshire forty three of the fifty one listed men survived. One was taken prisoner, three wounded and two invalided out.

By 1918 almost everyone would have a personal connection to a family that had lost a son or husband or someone who had been severely injured.
The impact could be very high in some communities such as Forncett St Mary in Norfolk where one third of the listed men did not return.

History
The British Government declared war on Germany on the 4th August 1914. After five years of hostilities an armistice was called on 11th November 1918. The Treaty of Versailles signed on 28th June 1919 marked the end of the war. Dedication of memorials and acts of remembrance continue to this day with special events to mark the centenary.


War and peace at IWM North
July 2014 sees the 100th anniversary of the outbreak of the Great War (World War I). This "timeline" at IWM North reminds us of the scale of the conflict and the horrific suffering of the soldiers involved in the combat. It was the fifth-deadliest conflict in world history. More than nine million combatants were killed: a scale of death impacted by industrial advancements of the age, geographic stalemate and reliance on human wave attacks. Thirteen million civilians also died during the war.
by David Dixon
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