For many who served during World War I, keeping a diary offered an outlet, a place into which they could unload their fears and frustrations. Today, these diaries stand as unparalleled historic documents, providing readers with a wealth of information about …

At the outbreak of World War I, Ella Jane Osborn was a surgical nurse at Mount Sinai Hospital in New York City. In January 1918, she volunteered to serve with the American Expeditionary Forces as a member of the Red Cross’s nursing service in Europe.

Nov 22, 2020 · English translation: In Time of War: The Complete Diary from the First World War. The collected Flemish-language war diaries of the famous Belgian writer Stijn Streuvels (1871-1969), compiled in 1979.

Jan 23, 2014 · The British National Archives is posting 1.5 million pages of World War I diaries online. The personal accounts provide new insight into the lives of the troops who fought the war that...

Many of the combatants of the First World War recorded the daily events of their experiences in the form of a diary. Some were published after the war and have become celebrated. Many more, however, remained tucked away in cupboard drawers for years, unpublished and unseen.

The letters and diaries in this collection provide firsthand accounts of many of the most important battles of the First World War, such as the Somme offensive (1916) and the battle of Passchendaele (1917).

Not Even Past is marking the centennial of the outbreak of the first World War with a very special publication. Our colleague, Gail Minault, a distinguished professor of the history of India, has given us her grandfather’s diary, a near daily record of his experiences in the trenches in France.

Tom Garner’s First World War Diary 1915-1919. With British Forces in Russia, with RNAS Armoured Cars and the Machine Gun Corps by Thomas Heyfield Garner

Jul 24, 2013 · There are around 500 diary and letter collections in the Library's manuscript collection. Visit the Library's World War I Collection website for a list of the diary and letter collections. In many cases, diarists kept more than one volume of their writings.

These records are the unit war diaries of the British Army in the First World War and are held by The National Archives in record series WO 95. They are not personal diaries (try the Imperial War...