Lives of the First World War

The Lives of the First World War website will be closed from 12.01 am on Tuesday 19 March 2019.

"We will not be able to accept any further contributions of material after this time. We encourage you to read our FAQs for further details. All Lives of the First World War URLs will be redirected temporarily to a holding page, until we launch the permanent digital memorial on iwm.org.uk in June 2019.

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Last chance: Support Forum

To allow the Lives of the First World War team time to process your requests before the site closes, we will be closing the Support Forum on the following dates:

Requests for merges will be accepted until 5.00pm on Monday 11 March 2019
Requests for creating new stories will be accepted until 5.00pm on Friday 15 March 2019
Questions or comments in the Feedback and Discussion forum will be monitored until 5.00pm on Friday 15 March 2019
Make your contribution today

Here are five ways of adding to Lives of the First World War over the next month:

Remember a Life Story
Add facts about an individual’s life, such as family, civilian and military experiences
Scan and upload images of photographs, documents and artefacts
Share anecdotes that have been passed down through the family
Update Communities that you have started *
*Please note that Communities that have fewer than 2 stories in them after 18 March 2019, will be deleted."