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Citizen historians recruited for WWI global research project

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Military history buffs with an interest in the First World War and cultural identity are invited to help crowd source a global history project out of the UK.
The Dominion Geordies in World War One project will research the lives and wartime service of people who were originally from north east England and who served in the land forces of the Dominion armies of Australia, New Zealand, Newfoundland and Canada.
By recruiting a crowd of volunteers to tackle this large-scale research project by collecting information, project organizers hope to better understand why ‘Geordies’ emigrated, how their journeys related to their wartime movements and where they ended up settling after the war.
The project, funded by the Arts and Humanities Research Council, is reaching out to volunteer researchers in Canada and abroad, says Dr. James McConnel, a history lecturer at Northumbria University.
The research will be looking at individual migration histories as well as the way people and communities saw their identities – as ‘Geordies’ (a regional nickname associated with denizens of the north east of England such as Newcastle and Tyndside) and Britons, but also as Canadians, Australians or New Zealanders.
About 70 per cent of the early Canadian Expeditionary Force raised for the First World War was born in the UK.
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For example, George Burdon McKean – originally from Willington, County Durham, England, was a student at the University of Alberta when fighting broke out.
He served with Canadian forces, and was awarded the Victoria Cross, the Military Medal, and the Military Cross, a rare feat that made him one of only a handful of people to win all three and survive the war.
The most famous ‘Geordie’ is Aussie John Simpson Kirkpatrick (depicted in the statue at left), who risked his life ferrying wounded comrades by donkey at Galipoli, and is also remembered at home as a native son of South Shields.
Over a span of 12 months, citizen historians will gather information for a database in hopes of using the collected information to produce a short film, and pen a number of research papers profiling the men of the north east who fought in the armies of the Dominions.
“It will be an interesting and challenging project to work on,” McConnel said.
Anyone from first-timers to experienced researchers are invited to get involved by researching lost stories of men and women.
To volunteer or for more information, visit http://dominiongeorgiesinww1.co.uk or contact james.mcconnel@northumbria.ac.uk
The project's full title is Dominion Geordies in World War One: Recovering lost legacies of emigrant North Easterners serving in Dominion forces 1914-1918.
As the project progresses, the database will be made available to the public.

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First World War project seeks ‘citizen historians'


Staff / Battlefords News-Optimist
January 25, 2016 02:09 PM

A global project has been launched that will research the lives and wartime service of “Geordies” — from the northeast of England — in the armies of Australia, New Zealand, Newfoundland and Canada during the First World War.
Dominion Geordies in World War One, funded by the Arts and Humanities Research Council, will seek to “crowd source” research by recruiting volunteer researchers in Canada and overseas.

"The first stage of the project will involve collecting information that will help us build a comprehensive and fascinating insight into the stories of so many of the local men and women of the northeast who, having left their native land in the three decades or so before the war, found themselves volunteering to return and fight for the homeland in the campaigns of the war across the world,” explains Dr, James McConnel, history lecturer at Northumbria University.
"By better understanding their complex identities, we hope to get a clearer picture of a fascinating aspect of the First World War that has been almost completely forgotten."
Take, for example, George Burdon McKean. Originally from Willington, County Durham, he was a student at the University of Alberta when the war broke out and served in the Canadian Expeditionary Force. He was awarded the Victoria Cross, the Military Medal and, after he was commissioned as an officer, the Military Cross, making him one of only a handful of people who have won all three and survived the war.
The research will consider not only individual “migration histories” like these, but also the way individuals and communities saw their own identities — as “Geordies” and Britons, but also Australians, Canadians or New Zealanders.
Citizen historians will gather the information for the database and the 12-month project is open to anyone,  all that is needed is an interest in the First World War.
Using this information, the project organizers say they plan to produce a short film and write a number of research papers in order to profile the men of the northeast who fought in the armies of the Dominion.


"It will be an interesting and challenging project to work on," said McConnel.
"And we want to get as many people as possible involved, from experienced researchers to first-time historians. Participants will have the opportunity to learn the skills necessary to research the lost stories of these service men and women's lives and to work with other researchers across the world.
"We are confident that anyone who can take the time to learn just a little about the scale and impact of the war will be encouraged to play a part in the project."
To volunteer to be part of the Dominion Geordies in World War One project or for more information, please visit http://dominiongeordiesinww1.co.uk/ or contact james.mcconnel@northumbria.ac.uk.


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