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1. www.nationalarchives.gov.uk › help-with-yourBritish Army war diaries 1914-1922 - The National Archives

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   The digitised diaries cover activity in France and Belgium. The diaries sometimes contain information about particular people but they are unit diaries, not personal diaries. A few contain details about awards of the Military Medal and the Meritorious Service Medal.

2. www.nationalarchives.gov.uk › first-world-warUnit war diaries - First World War portal - The National Archives

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   The unit war diaries (record series WO 95) represent one of the most popular collections held by The National Archives. War diaries were kept for two main reasons: to provide an accurate record of operations for preparing the official history of the war. to collect information that would help make improvements in preparing the army for war.

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4. www.bbc.com › news › uk-25716569WW1 soldier diaries placed online by National Archives - BBC

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   Jan 14, 2014 · The first batch of 1,944 digitised diaries, ... The volunteers to the project will be given a segment of a unit war diary and asked to tag key details such as names, places and events.

5. blog.nationalarchives.gov.uk › preserving-firstPreserving First World War diaries - The National Archives blog

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   Oct 9, 2015 · The project will make this important collection more accessible, and allows people to engage directly with the series by transcribing the pages as part of Operation War Diary. There are 5,500 boxes of war diaries and the first phase of the project digitised 2,097 of these between 2011 and 2012. Each box contains an average of 700 documents of ...

6. www.gov.uk › government › newsFirst World War diaries go online to mark centenary - GOV.UK

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   Jan 14, 2014 · The National Archives has today made thousands of digitised First World War unit war diaries from France and Flanders available online. They have digitised around 1.5 million pages of war diaries ...

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   The First World War unit war diaries are the most popular records from The National Archives’ First World War collection (file series WO 95) and the first in a series of First World War records to be digitised as part of The National Archives’ centenary

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   Are all unit war diaries digitised?

   • Not all the unit war diaries held by The National Archives have been digitised. Those diaries that haven’t been digitised are available to view in their original form at The National Archives in Kew. They are in record series WO 95. What are these records?

   British Army war diaries 1914-1922 - The National Archives

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   Why are digitised First World War unit diaries important?

   • The National Archives’ digitised First World War unit diaries will allow us to hear the voices of those that sacrificed their lives and is even more poignant now there are no living veterans who can speak directly about the events of the war.

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   Why are the First World War unit diaries available online?

   • William Spencer, author and military records specialist at The National Archives said: “Making the First World War unit diaries available online, allows people across the world to discover the daily activities, stories and battles of each unit for themselves.

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   Why are unit war diaries important?

   • The unit war diaries (record series WO 95) represent one of the most popular collections held by The National Archives. War diaries were kept for two main reasons: For researchers and family historians, the war diaries contain a wealth of information of far greater interest than the army could ever have predicted.

   Unit war diaries - First World War portal - The National Archives

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   How many WW1 diary pages are digitised?

   • About 1.5 million diary pages are held by the National Archives and a fifth have been digitised so far. The project is part of the government's World War One centenary programme. Each unit in World War One was required to keep a diary of its day-to-day activities.

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   How many war diaries are there?

   • There are 5,500 boxes of war diaries and the first phase of the project digitised 2,097 of these between 2011 and 2012. Each box contains an average of 700 documents of varying types, sizes, media and papers, so the whole series contains approximately 3,850,000 pages.

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9. www.nationalarchives.gov.uk › help-with-yourBritish Army operations in the First World War - The National ...

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   Many of the unit war diaries in series WO 95 have been digitised. For more information and instructions on how to search, see our guide to British Army war diaries 1914-1922 . If you are looking for the unit war diaries of Gallipoli and the Dardanelles campaign (WO 95/4263-4359) then these are available via Ancestry ( £ ).