World War 1

A 15 month project to catalogue the archives of the Friends Emergency and War Victims Relief Committee (FEWVRC) has now been completed, making accessible the records of an unprecedented Quaker reli…

For Women’s History Month, we look at the lives of three remarkable women of the 20th  century – Joan Mary Fry, Elizabeth Fox Howard and Francesca Wilson. Each of them in their own way respon…

Loaning material to other institutions provides an exciting opportunity to bring our collections to new audiences around the country. Special collections curator Melissa Atkinson writes about a cur…

For many, the celebrations at the signing of the Armistice and the end of World War I were short lived. While soldiers went home from the front, the destruction wreaked on basic infrastructure and …

image: a cityscape view across a wide bridge spanning a river. On the far bank in the centre is a large hotel building lettered 'Christol', while other substantial buildings extend on either side. The bridge is busy with uniformed and civilian figures and vehicles; an ambulance is turning off the bridge in the foreground.

image: the interior of a machine workshop, with workers in hats and overalls at work. The machinery is attached to beltsand wheels mounted from wooden slats on the ceiling of the workshop.

image: view of an open courtyard flanked on two sides by large wooden huts. Four motor ambulances are parked in the yard, all of them bearing a red cross, and a figure is examining the rear wheel of one on the left.

image: the interior of No. 1 Shop, a motor vehicle garage in Boulogne Works in northern France. To the right is a line of various motor vehicles being worked on by mechanics. To the left a number of men work at tables under lights, various vehicle components on the ground.

image: a view of a camp, with wooden huts on the left, two Nissen huts at the end, and eight more Nissen huts on the right, in front of which figures including nurses are standing. In the foreground, a wire fence is in front of open ground or a garden between the huts, while a stand of tall trees forms the background from the right.

image: within a large timbered building, a number of uniformed men are working at workbenches strewn with tools and parts. In the middle ground are two motor vehicles under repair, with the suggestion of others in the background

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Cambridge District Scout Archive These five Cambridge District Scouts from the 6th (Higher Grade School), 8th (All Saints) and 12th (Milton Road/ Viscountess of Clifden’s Own) were enrolled as hosp…

The FAU attracted a mainly Quaker membership, although this changed after the introduction of conscription. Engineers in unit supported transportation.

Molly Evans‘s nursing scrapbook covers the period 1914 to 1920. This includes a large number of photos, maps and newspaper articles of the period. It also contains letters, poems and testimonials of patients – British, Canadian and Belgian. A larger number of the items have been scanned and have recently been added to this site. MoreContinue reading →

A large collection of material, some of which has been digitised, including the FAU diary and correspondence of Edmund Cooper (SSA14).

The official personnel records of the FAU.

Archives 1914-1918: during the First World War, 10 million people, servicemen and civilians, were captured and sent to prisoner-of-war and Internment camps. The Belligerent Countries sent lists of prisoners of various nationalities to the ICRC. The ICRC set up alphabetical indexes. You can use them to search for a person.