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First world War Centenary.1914-1918 IWM Centenary project launched on Flickr.
As part of the IWM’s [Imperial War Museum] First World War Centenary Programme, photographs from the Museum’s ‘Bond of of Sacrifice’ are being uploaded to the photo-sharing site Flickr in a set called ‘Faces of the First World War’.
On Armistice Day 11.11.11, IWM made 100 previously unseen portraits of those who served in the First World War publically available for the first time on Flickr Commons.
IWM will continue to upload photographs to Flickr Commons every weekday until August 2014, the 100th anniversary of the outbreak of the First World War.
The Bond of Sacrifice is an archive of photographs collected by the IWM between 1917 and 1920. All of the photos tell a story. The men shown in them fought – and often died – for Britain and the Commonwealth during the First World War.
Get involved
The full story is not always known. We need your help to fill in the blanks.
Use any means you can – online newspapers, museums, libraries and archives – to build up more of a picture about the men in the photographs. Add what you find out to the Flickr site and help to remember the people behind the faces, a century on from the war they fought in.
Here is an example of the sort of extra information that can be uncovered. The attestation paper for Private Archibald Thornton has been digitised by the Library and Collections of Canada and is available to view online. Click here to view his photo and the enlistment form bearing his signature.
How to use Flickr
Anyone can view the images in the Faces of the First World War set. To leave comments, links and information about specific people, you will need to sign in to Flickr – accounts are free.
Photos on Flickr have tags. These make it easier to find and share images. The photos in the Faces of the First World War set have been tagged with as many useful pieces of information as are available, such as the person’s regiment and home town. If you come across relevant new information, tag the photos with what you find.
If you discover something online about one of the people featured in the Faces of the First World War set, you can add an image of what you’ve found to your comment. This might be a report about them in a newspaper; a copy of their birth certificate or a photo of their battalion or the ship they served in.
There is more information and many other links at the address below.
http://www.1914.org/faces/
As part of the IWM’s [Imperial War Museum] First World War Centenary Programme, photographs from the Museum’s ‘Bond of of Sacrifice’ are being uploaded to the photo-sharing site Flickr in a set called ‘Faces of the First World War’.
On Armistice Day 11.11.11, IWM made 100 previously unseen portraits of those who served in the First World War publically available for the first time on Flickr Commons.
IWM will continue to upload photographs to Flickr Commons every weekday until August 2014, the 100th anniversary of the outbreak of the First World War.
The Bond of Sacrifice is an archive of photographs collected by the IWM between 1917 and 1920. All of the photos tell a story. The men shown in them fought – and often died – for Britain and the Commonwealth during the First World War.
Get involved
The full story is not always known. We need your help to fill in the blanks.
Use any means you can – online newspapers, museums, libraries and archives – to build up more of a picture about the men in the photographs. Add what you find out to the Flickr site and help to remember the people behind the faces, a century on from the war they fought in.
Here is an example of the sort of extra information that can be uncovered. The attestation paper for Private Archibald Thornton has been digitised by the Library and Collections of Canada and is available to view online. Click here to view his photo and the enlistment form bearing his signature.
How to use Flickr
Anyone can view the images in the Faces of the First World War set. To leave comments, links and information about specific people, you will need to sign in to Flickr – accounts are free.
Photos on Flickr have tags. These make it easier to find and share images. The photos in the Faces of the First World War set have been tagged with as many useful pieces of information as are available, such as the person’s regiment and home town. If you come across relevant new information, tag the photos with what you find.
If you discover something online about one of the people featured in the Faces of the First World War set, you can add an image of what you’ve found to your comment. This might be a report about them in a newspaper; a copy of their birth certificate or a photo of their battalion or the ship they served in.
There is more information and many other links at the address below.
http://www.1914.org/faces/