Soldiers from the West Indies who volunteered to serve Britain in WW1 have been commemorated with a Nubian Jak Community Trust blue plaque in Seaford, where their regiment was formed in 1915.
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Tributes paid to the Chinese Labour Corps at Shorncliffe
Commemorations honouring the Chinese Labour Corps have been held on the Kent coast as part of a WW1 Centenary programme raising awareness of the CLC’s support for the British war effort.
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Update on Zeebrugge Raid conference at Royal Navy Museum
The National Museum of the Royal Navy announces more details of its April conference marking the centenary of Britain’s attempt to block German U-boat bases in Flanders.
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100 Years Ago: Flu emerges as new enemy
As an unusually deadly outbreak of influenza confronted the Great War armies, US WWI historian James Taub considers its impact on American forces.
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100 Years Ago: Flu emerges as new enemy
As an unusually deadly outbreak of influenza confronted the Great War armies, US WWI historian James Taub considers its impact on American forces.
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Book Review – The Last Battle: Victory, Defeat, and the End of World War I
Centenary News review’A timely and compelling account of the Hundred Days Offensive which defeated Germany in 1918, told through the words of the troops and their commanders, interwoven with Peter Hart’s forthright analysis.’
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Zeebrugge Centenary – ‘Battle for the North Sea’ exhibition coming up in Bruges
The crucial struggle waged between the British navy and the Flanders-based German submarine fleet during the First World War is explored in a new exhibition, opening in Bruges on April 21.
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100 Years Ago: German Spring Offensive launched
German forces began a thrust across Northern France on 21 March 1918, initially threatening to overwhelm the Allies.
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Centenary Anniversary: German ‘Spring Offensive’ launched
21st March 1918: The German ‘Spring Offensive’ (Operation Michael) saw substantial German gains at the expense of the Allies on the Western Front.
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Doullens on parade for Foch Centenary
Centenary News watches commemorations in the Somme town where Allied leaders took the historic decision to appoint Marshal Foch supreme commander on 26 March 1918.
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