Welcome to World War One Battlefields
Passchendaele battlefield, 1917 Image from Library and Archives Canada.
What's New: 16th April 2011
I have just added a page to the website covering Mons. This is based on a trip there in summer 2010, but last year and the start of this year have been extremely busy, and I have only now managed to finalise the page to add to the website. I am also working on a page to cover the nearby Le Cateau area, and hope to upload this soon.
On the same trip, I also visited the new cemetery which has been made near Pheasant Wood, Fromelles, for the first time which was a moving experience. There are photographs and more information to be found on the Fromelles page.
This website aims to share my interest and experiences in touring the battlefields of the Western Front. The website was set up over six years ago, just after the commemoration of Armistice Day in 2004, which marked 86 years since the end of the Great War. Over the years the website has grown considerably, with pages on most of the areas on the Western Front. See the main menu in the green title bar above for links toi the main sections, or see the Sitemap for a list of all the pages on the website.
From my own expoerience in visiting the battlefields, there are also tips on how to make the most of your visit and where to stay. Helping others to know where to go and what to see is the purpose of this website. There are also many good guidebooks to the battlefields, and details of these and reviews of them can be found on the Guidebooks page.
There are more reviews of books relating to the First World War in the rest of the Reviews section. The site is updated as regularly as I can spend time on it, so please check back from time to time. New additions will be highlighted on this page.
Please see the Links page for other sites relating to the Great War which I hope you find useful and interesting. I hope you enjoy this site and find it useful; please e-mail me with any comments or information you might have. E-mail:Webmaster
Navigation around the website
The horizontal buttons in the dark green bar at the top of the page lead to the main site sections, Somme, Flanders etc. Within each section is a vertical section navigation menu which is in a light green column on the left-hand side of each page (for example, in the Somme section there are pages on High Wood, Serre etc...). Clicking on an item in the left-hand menu leads to the relevant page within that section. The Sitemap (which can also be found in the top dark green menu on every page) lists all the pages on this site.
There is a search function which can accessed (at the moment) only on this Home page (click Home on the top left of any page to return here). You can select to search just the World War One Battlefields website.
Your current location in the site is always shown in the "breadcrumbs" trail, which is located in between the silver bars in the dark green header above. On this page it just says "Home".
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