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  Many more, however, remained tucked away in cupboard drawers for years, unpublished and unseen.

With the advent of the world wide web, an opportunity arose for the descendants of many survivors to publish fragments of diary entries for the education and interest of others.  This section of the website brings together a collection of such pages.

Also featured within this section are personal narratives written by survivors who relate a given aspect of the war, be it trench conditions, or their part in a specific attack or action, as well as the testimony of such participants as nurses and chaplains.

Diaries

The Diary of Robert Lindsay Mackay

The Diary of Thomas Fredrick Littler

The Diary of Edwin Evan Jones

The Diary of William Whitmore

Collections

The Best 500 Cockney War Stories

First-hand Accounts

	A Letter from Paris, 11 Nov 1918	Charles S. Normington
	Torpedoed in the Aegean Sea	Reginald Huggins
	Defeat at the Marne, July 1918	Kurt Hesse
	A July Day at St. Julien	Alfred Willcox
	War is War	A. M. Burrage
	The Russo-German Armistice	Kamaneff
	German Assault on Fort Vaux	Anonymous
	The Evacuation of Suvla Bay	W. H. Lench
	At a Sap-Head	David Phillips
	August to November 1918	Harold F. Taylor
	The Struggle for Thiaumont	General Millerand
	"Stand To" on Givenchy Road	Thomas A. Owen
	Retreat	R. G. Bultitude
	A Night Counter-attack	F. W. Watts
	Noyon - 23rd of March, 1918	Dr. F. O. Taylor
	At Messines Ridge in 1917	E. N. Gladden
	The Devil - My Friend	Charles Trehane
	Bulgaria's Treachery Against Russia	Princess Radziwill
	A Territorial in the Salient	Frank L. Watson
	An Old Contemptible	R. G. Hill
	A Wireless Operator	B. Neyland
	Trenches at Vimy Ridge	Harold Saunders
	Bravery in the Field?	Alexander Paterson
	A Highland Battalion at Loos	Thomas McCall
	The Abdication of King Constantine I	Auguste Gauvain
	A Runner's Story, 1916-1918	R. W. Iley
	A Casualty Clearing Station	Dr. John A Hayward
	In a Billet	Harry Drake
	Delville Wood	S. J. Worley
	Rations	C. Goddard-Chead
	The Battle of Loos	S. Walker
	The Carnoy Cows	T. S. Williams
	The Invasion of Romania	Queen Marie
	A Labour Company at Ypres	J. Cumming Morgan
	A Boy at Gallipoli	Fred T. Wilson
	The First Battle of Ypres	I. F. Bell
	Ordinary War on the Somme	Fred Ball
	Retreat to the Hindenburg Line	Karl Rosner
	Varieties of Trench Life	A. A. Dickson
	The Struggle for Fort Douaumont	Anonymous
	Destructive Technology at the Somme	Alfred Dambitsch
	A Gunner's Adventure	N. H. Bradbury
	The Sinking of the Lutzow	Anonymous
	The Fall of Warsaw and Kovno	Princess Radziwill
	In a Kite Balloon	W. Sylvanus Lewis
	The First Gas Attack 1915	Anthony R. Hossack
	The End of Bulgaria	N. C. Powell
	A Sapper in Palestine	H. P. Bonser
	Tell-el-Sheria	William G. Johnson
	The End of the Siege of Kut	Major Charles Barber
	The Corridor	T. Clayton
	Those Desert Days	Robert Harding
	The Casualty	Rev. John Haswell
	The Circus	F. Suckling
	Two Nights	P. Hoole Jackson
	The Battle of the Carpathian Passes	Octavian Taslauanu
	August 1914	Esmee Sartorius
	The Great Retreat in Serbia	M. I. Tatham
	The Story of a W.A.A.C.	A. B. Baker
	War at Sea	J. Willey
	First Days of Imprisonment	Reginald Morris
	Captivity in the Ardennes	Victor Denham
	On the Belgian Coast	George Brame
	17-21	George F. Wear
	The Armenian Massacres	Dr. Martin Niepage
	German Attack on Le Mort Homme	Anonymous
	A Boy's Experiences	C. J. Arthur
	A Cavalry Brigade at Cambrai	Chris Knight
	La Vacquerie	W. R. Dick
	In a Highland Regiment	H. E. May
	The Retreat From Mons	Bernard Denore
	A Nightmare	Alan F. Hyder
	The Flood at Suvla Bay	F. W. D. Bendall
	Opening of German Offensive	Alfred Grosch
	The Battle of Jutland	Anonymous
	When Tank Fought Tank	F. Mitchell
	Artillery Devastation at Third Ypres	Max Osborn
	The Recapture of Fort Douaumont	Anonymous
	Messines, October 1918	A. B. Kenway
	Zeebrugge	W. Wainwright
	Hungarian View of Brusilov Offensive	Anonymous
	Austrian View of Brusilov Offensive	Anonymous
	The Battle of Caporetto	G. M. Trevelyan
	Polish View of Brusilov Offensive	Anonymous
	A Padre's Story	Anonymous
	Dead for 44 Years	T. Henderson
	Mons and Loos	T. C. O'Donnell
	My Time as German Ambassador	Prince Lichnowsky
	The October Revolution	Alexander Mosler
	Retreating to the Hindenburg Line	Georg Querl
	The Fall of Liege	Anonymous
	The Flight of the Goeben and Breslau	Henry Morgenthau
	Service in the Germany Army, 1914	Capt. Henry Huebner
	Sinking the Aboukir, Cressy & Hogue	Lieut. Otto Weddigen
	The Zeebrugge Affair	Capt. Alfred Carpenter
	The German Gas Attack at Ypres	Anonymous