Refugees, internment, training and protest.
Monaghan town was a refuge for Belgians fleeing German invasion in WW1.
Dreghorn provided the only experience Scots soldiers had of trench warfare before war.
Portobello was home to thousands of troops, some billeted in a chocolate factory.
The first to be executed at the Tower for more than 170 years.
The attack that left locals homeless and fearing for their life
The bombarded house that became famous after featuring on national recruitment posters
The only German prisoner to escape a prisoner of war camp in both world wars
A quaint village that became home to 4,500 German prisoners
Conlig lead mine was a focal point for local paranoia about German spies.
Perth locals offered troops tea and a chat as they passed through the Railway station.
Escaping troubles in the trenches at Bristol Zoo
250,000 Belgian refugees came to England after the invasion
Months before the war began, Drumalis House was a centre for unionist gun running.
Prisoners lived in stables at the Racecourse when it was turned into an internment camp
British philanthropy towards enemy captives
The camp housed the equivalent to almost half of the town's resident population
In September 1914, John Redmond addressed volunteers drilling at Woodenbridge Golf Club.
Stobs Camp was a training camp for men from the Empire. Later it became a POW camp.
Over 2 million military recruitment posters were distributed across Ireland
Training camp for the suicide club
Held in British prisons and buried on British soil
Heaton Park transformed into a major military park during the Great War
Despite horsemeat soup and a mouse in their porridge, life at Park Hall wasn鈥檛 so bad
Remote dunes on the West Coast were home to more than a thousand German prisoners of war
