This four year project is my way of commemorating a conflict that, over the course of the fifty two months it ran, changed the face of the world forever and altered millions of lives in a myriad of different ways. This is really a personal act of remembrance being conducted on a public forum but one I think is worth sharing.
I have no set time each month to post, I have no theme other than the obvious overarching one, nor do I have a set format for the posts – it might be facts, it might be a piece of fiction, it might be a personal reflection. The only thing of which you can be certain is that I will make a post for each month of the war and when I do I will update this master list:
- August 1914/2014 – The Lamps Go Out
- September 1914/2014 – Scars Upon My Heart
- October 1914/2014 – Acts of Remembrance
- November 1914/2014 – WWI on stage and screen
- December 1914/2014 – Stille Nacht
- January 1915/2015 – Advice from Churchill
- February 1915/2015 – A Month of War
- March 1915/2015 – The Imperial War Museum
- April 1915/2015 – Gallipoli
- May 1915/2015 – Sinking of the Lusitania
- June 1915/2015 – Another Month of War
- July 1915/2015 – If the worst should happen.
- August 1915/2015 – The Munitionettes
- September 1915/2015 – Total Warfare and the Zeppelin
- October 1915/2015 – Another Month of War
- November 1915/2015 – Thoughts on Armistice Day
- December 1915/2015 – Christmas Wishes from the King
- January 1916/2016 – Another Month of War
- February 1916/2016 – Salient News!
- March 1916/2016 – Gas! Gas!
- April 1916/2016 – Another Month of War
- May 1916/2016 – Death of a Poet
- June 1916/2016 – On the Eve of Battle
- July 1916/2016 – From the Field of Battle
- August 1916/2016 – Devil’s Wood
- September 1916/2016 – Another Month of War
- October 1916/2016 – In Memory of One Who Fell
- November 1916/2016 – A Letter from a Father
- December 1916/2016 – Another Month of War
- January 1917/2017 – War as drawn by man who illustrated Winnie the Pooh
- February 1917/2017 – Women and the War
- March 1917/2017 – Revolution!
- April 1917/2017 – The Battle of Vimy Ridge
- May 1917/2017 – Another Month of War
- June 1917/2017 – Here Come the Yanks!
- July 1917/2017 – Centenary of the WAAC
- August 1917/2017 – Another Month of War
- September 1917/2017 – Finished with War; A Soldier’s Declaration
- October 1917/2017 – They Called it Passchendaele
- November 1917/2017 – Remembrance at the Cenotaph
- December 1917/2017 – Christmas at the Front
- January 1918/2018 – China’s role in WWI
- February 1918/2018 – Votes for Women!
- March 1918/2018 – War Poets and Poets at War
- April 1918/2018 – 100 years of the RAF and the Death of a Legend
- May 1918/2018 – The War Diaries of Private Charles Bottomley
- June 1918/2018 – The Commonwealth War Graves Commission
- July 1918/2018 – Another Month of War
- August 1918/2018 – Unknown Soldier
- September 1918/2018 – Smile, Smile, Smile
- October 1918/2018 – They Shall Not Grow Old
- November 1918/2018 – The Last Month of War
At the Going Down of the Sun, and in the Morning …
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All the timelines for the “Month of War” posts have been based on those included in “The Great War: Unseen Archives” by Robert Hamilton