General Sir Ian Hamilton, British commander-in-chief at Gallipoli, was recalled on October 16th 1915 amid arguments about the future of the campaign.
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Survey reveals WW1 Irish Sea shipwrecks
Scientists have captured the ‘most detailed images ever’ of First World War shipwrecks in the Irish Sea, says Ulster University’s Dr Ruth Plets who has led a survey marking the Centenary.
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Niue Pacific islanders who served New Zealand in WW1 remembered
The war effort of the small Pacific island of Niue is being remembered, a century after 150 men sailed to join New Zealand’s forces in 1915.
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Jutland Centenary – UK navy museum to mark ‘defining naval battle’ of First World War
Britain’s National Museum of the Royal Navy has announced a major exhibition next year marking the centenary of the Battle of Jutland.
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President of Mali honours the fallen at Verdun
President Ibrahim Boubacar Keïta has visited Douaumont to remember soldiers from Mali who were killed fighting for France at the Battle of Verdun in 1916.
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Gallipoli Centenary tour for Edinburgh school students
Students from two schools in Edinburgh have visited the Gallipoli battlefields on a second tour organised by the UK-based Gallipoli Centenary Education Project.
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Serb soldiers of the Great War remembered at Paris exhibition
An exhibition paying tribute to Serbia’s First World War soldiers has just opened at the Serbian Cultural Centre in Paris, running until November 14th 2015.
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While the Gods Were Sleeping
Publisher’s Description:’Lyrical and tender, filled with images of blazing intensity, While the Gods Were Sleeping asks how it is possible to record the dislocation of war; to describe the indescribable. It is a breathtaking novel about the act of remembering, how the past seeps into our lives and how those we have lost leave their trace in the present.’
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Elsie and Mairi Go to War
Publisher’s Description:’When they met at a motorcycle club in 1912, Elsie Knocker was a thirty year-old motorcycling divorcee dressed in bottle-green Dunhill leathers, and Mairi Chisholm was a brilliant eighteen-year old mechanic, living at home and borrowing tools from her brother. Little did they know, theirs was to become one of the most extraordinary stories of the First World War.’
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Fritz and Tommy: Across the Barbed Wire
Publisher’s Description:’It was a war that shaped the modern world, fought on five continents, claiming the lives of ten million people. Two great nations met each other on the field of battle for the first time. But were they so very different? For the first time, and drawing widely on archive material in the form of original letters and diaries, Peter Doyle and Robin Schäfer bring together the two sides, ‘Fritz’ and ‘Tommy’, to examine cultural and military nuances that have until now been left untouched: their approaches to war, their lives at the front, their greatest fears and their hopes for the future.’
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