Visitors can now explore a wealth of information about two CWGC sites in Belgium by simply scanning a barcode with their smartphones.

Find out about the role of Devizes in the First World War at a fascinating exhibition, running until July 10th at Devizes Museum. The exhibition takes the visitor through the trenches to the sound of Vickers machine gun fire, Great War aeroplanes and a heavy artillery barrage, whilst the tragic story unfolds of the War as it affected the town and surrounding villages of Devizes. The exhibition provides just a taster of the remarkable yet tragic story of those men, and a woman, who made the ultimate sacrifice on our behalf when they left their beloved homes to serve our Country.

Over one hundred 3D maps used by Field Marshal the Earl Haig during the First World War have gone on display at the Royal Military Academy in Sandhurst, Berkshire.

The maps – 120 in total – had been gathering dust in a storage space until they were re-discovered. Experts at the Defence Geographic Centre at Feltham, London, have spent the last decade restoring them to their former glory.

On Friday 10 June 2011, a group of British historians began a detailed archaeological excavation of La Boisselle that could last up to ten years.

Henry Allingham was 113 when he died in 2009, one of the last veterans of the First World War. But despite the attention that this attracted, he was so modest about his wartime service that he kept the medals that rewarded it in a tool box.

As hundreds of Canadian soldiers waited to go into battle at Vimy, France in spring 1917 many of them knew they might not make it through the fighting. They were hidden underground, sleeping on bunk beds that lined the passages of an old chalk quarry beneath farmland near Arras. Still visible on the walls today are the carvings they made as they waited.

It has been called unprecedented and unique – and it cost its owner just £3.20 when he bought it from online auction site, eBay.

An international team of archaeologists and researchers has begun an extensive survey of Gallipoli in Turkey, the scene of some of the fiercest fighting of the First World War.

British-born Claude Choules has died in Perth, Australia, aged 110. He was the last known combat veteran of the First World War.

Following all the excitement of last month’s royal wedding – the dress, the crowds, and of course the hats – one small act took place that has a direct link with the First World War.