GRATEFUL THANKS & ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS (in country/alphabetical-order):-
AUSTRALIA:
Australian War Museum – awm.gov.au (Image permission)
Baulch, Cheryl www.togethertheyserved.com
Returned & Services League of Australia – http://www.rsl.org.au/ (Assistance)
CANADA:
Brodie Resource Library, Thunder Bay – http://www.tbpl.ca/article/welcome-1.asp (Image permission & assistance)
Canadian War Museum – http://www.warmuseum.ca/home/ (Image permission)
Cipywnyk, Paul (Image permission)
Clifford, Steven – https://doingourbit.wordpress.com (Assistance)
Furey, Ms. K. (Image permission)
Gogos, Frank – Newfoundland research and guidance
Granfield, Linda (Assistance) http://lindagranfield.com/ (In Flanders Fields)
Lafrenière, Ronald G. (Research, philately) http://www.birdbearpress.com/description.php
MacFarlane, [the late] Mrs. N. E. (Inspiration, research & guidance)
Memorial University of Newfoundland Digital Archives Initiative – (Assistance) http://collections.mun.ca/
Prince Arthur Waterfront Hotel, Thunder Bay, Ontario (Image permission) http://www.princearthurwaterfront.com/
Ratz, David (Lieutenant Colonel, Lake Superior Scottish Regiment & Sessional Lecturer in the Lakehead University History Department) – Great War Veterans Association research and guidance
Royal Canadian Legion – http://www.legion.ca/ (Image permission & assistance)
Ryma: Linda Ryma Photography – https://www.facebook.com/LindaRymaPhotography (Image permission)
Sheba Films: Kelly Saxburg and Ron Harpelle (Lakehead at War) http://www.shebafilms.com/
Stewart Family (Assistance)
Thom: Florence Morgan-Thom and Barry Thom, Newfoundland (Image permission & assistance)
Trenow, Liz https://liztrenow.com/2016/04/09/the-real-poppy-lady/ (Assistance)
Vancouver, Museum of – http://www.museumofvancouver.ca/ (Image permission & assistance)
Western Development Museum – http://wdm.ca/ (Assistance)
FRANCE:
Askat, Marc (Image permission)
Bidegain, Eliane – http://www.biarritz.ovh.org/villas/Ilbarritz.html (Assistance and image permission)
Boirayon, Alain (Research)
Fons, Alexandre: Chargé de mission, Oeuvre Nationale du Bleuet de France (Assistance)
Jumas, Sandrine – Relevés Ardéchois: http://releves.free.fr/ (Research & assistance)
Madame S.O. (Assistance)
Mairies de Paris – http://vosdroits.service-public.fr/particuliers/N359.xhtml (Search)
Mairie de Vallon Pont d’Arc – http://www.mairie-vallon.com/ (Assistance)
Malesys, Anthony https://www.facebook.com/A.M.Colorizations/ (Image assistance and research. Anthony Malesys of ‘Colorful History: Colorizations by Anthony Malesys’)
Maurel, Henri – gw.geneanet.org/hmaurel (Research & assistance)
Morddel, Anne CG http://french-genealogy.typepad.com/genealogie/about-anne.html (Research & assistance)
Ramona, Philippe – http://www.messageries-maritimes.org/natal.htm (Image permission)
Simon, Pierre – http://www.alsace1418.fr/ (Research)
Thomson, D. & J. – La Boisselle (Image permission & assistance) http://www.number56.co.uk/
Thouard/Boulle Family (Image permission & assistance)
Towler, Anne Campbell (Assistance)
Vigoureux, Claude ONACVG: Directeur, Vendée (Assistance)
Vincent, Dorothée (Research & assistance)
GERMANY: Marius Golgath (Research & assistance: Madame Isabelle Mack)
IRELAND:
Royal British Legion Dublin Branch – (Assistance: Noel Cullen) http://www.dublincentralbranch.com
NEW ZEALAND:
Auckland Council Library: ‘Quick March’ publication – (Image permission) http://www.aucklandlibraries.govt.nz/EN/Pages/Home.aspx
Hawke’s Bay Museums Trust, Ruawharo Tā-ū-rangi, 1 Tennyson Street, Napier 4110. https://mtghawkesbay.wordpress.com/ (Image permissions)
Marriott, Gavin (JP; Christchurch NZ Researcher; Author for The International Military Music Society & Passchendaele Society NZ) (Image permission & Assistance)
McCauley, Debbie, Tauranga City Libraries http://tauranga.kete.net.nz/
Returned Soldiers Association – https://rsa.org.nz (Assistance)
SOUTH AFRICA:
Gillings, Ken: South African Military History Society (Assistance)
UK:
Brownett, Martin (Image permission)
Chaloner, Andy (Image permissions and assistance)
Claringbold, Daf (Poppy donation to the Guérin Archive)
Doyle, Peter http://www.peterdoylemilitaryhistory.com/ (Image permission)
Goodman, Robyn (Assistance)
Green Howards Museum – http://greenhowards.org.uk/ (Image permission & assistance)
Haigh, I. (Assistance)
Legg, Joanna http://www.greatwar.co.uk/
Lifehouse Spa & Hotel http://www.lifehouse.co.uk/ (Image permission}
Notting Hill and Ealing High School Archives (Image permission)
Peacock, Edward (Image permission)
Poppyscotland, I. Campbell – http://www.poppyscotland.org.uk/ (Assistance)
Reed, Paul – (Assistance) http://greatwarphotos.com/ & http://ww1centenary.net/ & http://www.somme1916.com/ etc – Military Historian; Author; and Battlefield Guide
Simpson, Diane
Sinclair, Peter (Assistance – Sir Herbert Brown)
Stanfield, Chris – (Assistance)
Young, George (Assistance)
Young, Mike – northeastmedals.co.uk (Image permission)
Webster: George A. Webster Collection (Image permission)
USA:
American Gold Star Mothers, Inc.(Assistance – Candy Martin, National Archivist)
American Legion National Headquarters – http://www.legion.org/ : (Image permission)
Arizona Memory Project/Slusser Memorial Philatelic Library : (Image permission) http://www.postalhistoryfoundation.org/slusser-library.html
Baltimore, Friends of Druid Hill Park – http://www.druidhillpark.org/ (Image permission)
Baltimore Sun – http://www.baltimoresun.com/ (Librarian Paul McCardell: Assistance)
Birkholz, Eric and Rosemary (Image permission & assistance)
Corbis Images – www: corbisimages.com (Sales in UK: Image permission & assistance)
Denune, John: https://www.christmasseals.net/ (Assistance)
Denver Post publication http://blogs.denverpost.com/library/category/war/ (Image permissions)
Denver Public Library Archives – http://digital.denverlibrary.org/cdm/ (Image permission & assistance)
Doc Dentice (Permission, Gold Star Mothers) http://www.war-veterans.org/Gold.htm
French House, Madison (Andrew T. Irving) http://uwfrenchhouse.org/ (Assistance)
Hargrett Library, University of Georgia – (Mary Linnemann: research & assistance) http://www.libs.uga.edu/hargrett/
Indiana University-Purdue University, Indianapolis (Permission) http://www2.ulib.iupui.edu/digitalscholarship
Irwin, Dr. Julia – Associate Professor of History, University of South Florida (Research)
Klote, James D., President & CEO, Ward, Dreshman & Reinhardt, Inc. (Assistance) http://www.wdrincorp.com/
Michael, Moina/Papers: Elinor Howard Cook & Lucia Howard Sizemore; & Barbara Elizabeth Walsh. (Assistance)
Mocavo.com – www.mocavo.com (Image permission)
Mormon Church History Library – https://history.lds.org/section/library?lang=eng (Assistance)
Nebraska State Historical Society – (Image permission & manuscripts assistance ref Hartley Burr Alexander) (Manuscripts: T. Mooney & Reference Dept: M. Miller) http://www.nebraskahistory.org/index.shtml
Olson, Vaughn (Image permission)
Smithsonian Institution: National Museum of American History, Washington DC (Image permission) – http://americanhistory.si.edu/
Stanford University Press (Permission) http://www.sup.org/
Unger, Carolyn
U.S. Copyright Office – http://www.copyright.gov/ (Assistance)
U.S. Department of Health & Human Services – (Image permission) http://www.hhs.gov/
Veterans of Foreign Wars of the United States, Inc.
Veterans of Foreign Wars of the United States, Inc. members Robert Granados; Al Ruiz; & Rick Luna of VFW 1013 Cpl Guy Gabaldon Post (Assistance)
Wisconsin Historical Society – http://www.wisconsinhistory.org/ (Image permission)
Wisconsin: French House, Madison (Assistance) http://uwfrenchhouse.org/
SOURCES (in country/alphabetical-order):-
AUSTRALIA:
Australian War Museum – awm.gov.au
National Library of Australia – Trove (Research: online newspapers) http://trove.nla.gov.au/
Returned & Services League of Australia – http://www.rsl.org.au/
CANADA:
Alliance Française – http://www.alliancefr.org/en
Brodie Resource Library, Thunder Bay – http://www.tbpl.ca/article/welcome-1.asp
Canadian War Museum – http://www.warmuseum.ca/home/
Gogos, Frank – Newfoundland research
Lafrenière, Ronald G. http://www.birdbearpress.com/description.php
MacFarlane, Mrs. N. E. (Newspaper archives & contemporary knowledge)
Memorial University of Newfoundland DAI – (Assistance: M. Baker) http://collections.mun.ca/
Port Arthur News Chronicle (via Mrs. N. E. MacFarlane)
Ratz, David (Lieutenant Colonel, Lake Superior Scottish Regiment & Sessional Lecturer in the Lakehead University History Department) – Great War Veterans Association research.
Royal Canadian Legion – http://www.legion.ca/
Stewart Family
Toronto Star Archive, Ontario – http://pqasb.pqarchiver.com/thestar/advancedsearch.html (via ProQuest Archiver)
Toronto Globe Archive (via Mrs. N. E. MacFarlane)
FRANCE:
Ardeche Archives http://archives.ardeche.fr/ (Online register images)
Bleuet http://www.alsace1418.fr/ (Research)
Boirayon, Alain (Research)
‘BORDEAUX BRÛLE-T-IL. La Libération de la Gironde’ by Dominique Lormier, 2003 (re: Adjutant ‘Robert Arbour’)
Gallica – gallica.bnf.fr/Bibliothèque nationale de France (Online publications – Journal Officiel de Madagascar et Dépendances)
Geneanet – gw.geneanet.org/hmaurel (Henri Maurel)
Jumas, Sandrine – Relevés Ardéchois : http://releves.free.fr/ (Research & assistance)
Ile Longue 1914-1918 – www.ilelongue14-18.eu/?les-captures-en-Alsace-Lorraine – ‘Camp des Prisonniers Alsacien-Lorraine’, Saint-Rambert-sur-Loire.
Mairies de Paris – http://vosdroits.service-public.fr/particuliers/N359.xhtml
Malesys, Anthony https://www.facebook.com/A.M.Colorizations/ (Image assistance and research. Anthony Malesys of ‘Colorful History: Colorizations by Anthony Malesys’)
Ministère de la Culture http://www.culture.gouv.fr (Research: Constant Charles Eugène Guérin)
Morddel, Anne CG http://french-genealogy.typepad.com/genealogie/about-anne.html (Research & assistance)
Relevés Ardéchois – http://releves.free.fr (Sandrine Jumas)
Ramona, Philippe – http://www.messageries-maritimes.org/natal.htm
Thouard/Boulle Family (Research and assistance)
Vincent, Dorothée (Les Bleuets)
GERMANY: Marius Golgath (Research and assistance: Madame Isabelle Mack)
NEW ZEALAND:
Auckland Council Library: ‘Quick March’ publication – http://www.aucklandlibraries.govt.nz/EN/Pages/Home.aspx
Marriott, Gavin (JP; Christchurch NZ Researcher; Author for The International Military Music Society & Passchendaele Society NZ)
National Library of New Zealand: http://paperspast.natlib.govt.nz/cgi-bin/paperspast & http://www.atojs.natlib.govt.nz/
Returned Soldiers Association – http://rsl.org.au/
Tauranga City Libraries http://tauranga.kete.net.nz/
SOUTH AFRICA:
Gillings, Ken: South African Military History Society
UK:
Chaloner, Andy
British Newspaper Archive – http://www.britishnewspaperarchive.co.uk/ (Online publications)
‘Great War 1914-1918’ website http://www.greatwar.co.uk/
‘Keeping Faith’ by Brian Harding (Facts relating to poppy production)
Sinclair, Peter – http://www.sinclairgenealogy.info/brown-family (Sir Herbert Brown)
Young, George
USA:
Ancestry.com – www.ancestry.com incl. www. ancestry.co.uk (Research)
American Legion National Headquarters – http://www.legion.org/ (Online publications)
‘An Undiplomatic Diary’ (Major-General Harry Hill Bandholtz)
Arizona Memory Project/Slusser Memorial Philatelic Library, Tucson (Research) – http://www.postalhistoryfoundation.org/slusser-library.html
Baltimore Sun – http://www.baltimoresun.com/ (Research)
Birkholz, Eric and Rosemary (Research)
California Newspaper Collection – California Digital Newspaper Collection (Research)
Chronicling America – chroniclingamerica.loc.gov (Online publications)
Corbis Images – www: corbisimages.com (‘Sales’ in UK)
Denune, John: https://www.christmasseals.net/
Denver Post publication http://blogs.denverpost.com/library/category/war/
Denver Public Library Archives – http://digital.denverlibrary.org/cdm/ (Research)
Elephind.com – www.elephind.com (Online newspapers)
Gold Star Mothers facts – http://www.war-veterans.org/Gold1.htm
Hargrett Library, University of Georgia – http://www.libs.uga.edu/hargrett/
Indiana University-Purdue University, Indianapolis http://www2.ulib.iupui.edu/digitalscholarship
Irwin, Dr. Julia – Associate Professor of History, University of South Florida
Library of Congress, Washington DC (Interview with M. Michael 1939/SS Sachem) http://www.loc.gov/resource/wpalh1.12081212/?sp=1
‘Making the World Safe: The American Red Cross and a Nation’s Humanitarian Awakening’ (Dr. Julia F. Irwin)
Michael, Moina/Papers (including Madame Guérin’s Synopsis. State of Georgia Archives)
Mocavo.com – www.mocavo.com (Online publications)
Mormon Church History Library – https://history.lds.org/section/library?lang=eng
Nebraska State Historical Society – (Hartley Burr Alexander papers [RG4028] & image [RG.PH-2411-65]) http://www.nebraskahistory.org/index.shtml
Nebraska University & Nebraska State Historical Society Newspapers – http://nebnewspapers.unl.edu/
Newspapers.com – www.newspapers.com (Online publications)
‘The Journey of the Italians in America’ by Vincenza Scarpaci
‘The World’s Rim: Great Mysteries of the North American Indians’ by Hartley Burr Alexander – Introduction.
Veterans of Foreign Wars of the United States, Inc.
Veterans of Foreign Wars of the United States, Inc. members Robert Granados; Al Ruiz; & Rick Luna of VFW 1013 Cpl Guy Gabaldon Post.
‘Warming Both Hands. The Autobiography of Henry Rushton Fairclough’. Stanford University Press https://books.google.co.uk/books/about/Warming_Both_Hands.html?id=aKkKAAAAMAAJ&redir_esc=y
Webafriqa – webafriqa.net (re Joseph-Simon Gallieni)
Wisconsin Historical Society – http://www.wisconsinhistory.org/
WORLDWIDE:
Wikipedia.org – www.en.wikipedia.org
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