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 …

Jan 23, 2014 · The British National Archives has digitized and posted online about 1.5 million pages of diaries from soldiers and units that fought in World War I.

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.

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).

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 Many more, however, remained tucked away in cupboard drawers for years, unpublished and unseen.

This year we commemorate the outbreak of World War I, which began in August 1914, with all the powers of Europe declaring war on each other in a domino effect born of alliances and ententes.

David H. Annan’s diary consists of daily entries written between May 14 and October 1, 1917, during his service as an ambulance driver with AFS unit SSU 65. The entries describe his voyage to France, contain vivid depictions of his activities overseas, and document his trip.

In some war diaries, this column is a terse, point-form record of the most basic facts, while others contain lengthy, graphic and moving first-hand descriptions of life in the front lines and during trench warfare.

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

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...