First World War 1914–18

World War 1 Sanctuary - Our galleries - Auckland War Memorial Museum The top floor of the Museum is dedicated to the memory of fallen soldiers and is known as both the World War 1 Sanctuary and the World War 2 Hall of Memories. New Zealand sent more men to fight in the First World War, per head of population, than any other nation. 18,166 New Zealanders died from a country of only one million. The grieving was made harder for New Zealand families because nearly all those killed were buried overseas. 5,325 New Zealand soldiers – almost a third of all those killed - have no known grave. Families therefore had nowhere to focus their grief and say goodbye to their loved ones. For this reason, a large number of war memorials were built around New Zealand, which acted as symbolic graveyards for grieving families. The spectacular stained glass lead light ceiling directly above the entrance foyer shows the Coat of Arms of all British Dominions and Colonies during the First World War. The Roll of Honour is also kept in book form in the World War 1 Sanctuary.

National World War I Museum at Liberty Memorial Sanctuary Wood Museum - (Hill 62), Belgium After the First World War a farmer returned to reclaim his land in and around what was left of the wood he had left in 1914. A section of the original wood and the trenches in it were cleared of debris and casualties but generally the farmer left a section of a British trench system as he found it. This site is now one of the few places on the Ypres Salient battlefields where an original trench layout can be seen in some semblance of what it might have looked like. Elsewhere the trenches were filled in and ploughed over by returning farmers leaving only the occasional chalky outline of what had once been there. In the last decade there has been a large increase in visitors to the Ypres Salient, and many have, of course, included a visit to the trenches at Sanctuary Wood. The need for the preservation of battlefield areas makes for an interesting discussion. Tunnel and Trenches Cleared Battlefield Relics and Museum Collection British Army Cook's Wagon German Stone Grave Markers Indoor Museum

World War I | The Estonian War Museum – General Laidoner Museum “The home front is always underrated by generals in the field. And yet that is where the Great War was won and lost. The Russian, Bulgarian, Austrian (Austria-Hungary) and German home fronts fell to pieces before their armies collapsed.” British Prime Minister Lloyd George in his “War Memoirs” World War I World War I broke out in late July 1914. The real causes of the war lay in the past. Two opposing military alliances took part in World War I: the Allies (centered around the Triple Entente) against the Central Powers. The war, which lasted for four years, three months and thirteen days was ended by the Paris Peace Conference (1919–1920). Estonia in World War I Almost 100,000 men were mobilized from Estonia (including the Estonian part of the Livonian guberniya) to the Russian army, of those approximately 10,000 were killed. Estonia was in the front’s rear. World War I considerably changed the domestic life of Estonia and put pressure on the economy. Military operations in Estonia 1.