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The Twitter page for this website, where I show additional photos etc.

First World War websites
The Great War Forum
The Long, Long Trail
Western Front Association
Europeana (wide range of First World War material from across Europe)

Swiss history: First World War
Swiss postcards from the First World War period (in French)
Diplomatic Documents of Switzerland (Dodis)
A short history of the Swiss flag at sea (imports by sea during the war)
Rost und Grünspan (Swiss First World War re-enactors, with detailed information)
'Kilometre zero' (the point at which the Swiss, French and German frontiers met in WWI)

Prisoners of war and medical
Prisoners of the First World War - ICRC archives (records about individual PoWs, held by the International Committee of the Red Cross)
hopitauxmilitairesguerre1418.overblog.com (in French - includes lists of locations of internment camps in Switzerland)
Henry Picot, The British interned in Switzerland (eBook)
How the British Red Cross provided a recreational hut for British PoWs at Châteux d’Oex

Swiss history and armed forces: general
Swiss Army Museum Society (English version of site available)
Swiss rifles.com (in English)
Schweizer Festungen (Swiss fortifications - an excellent site, mainly in French and German, with lots of information about Switzerland in WWI as well as fortifications)
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