CN Editorial Team – Page 295 – First World War Centenary News Archive

February 8, 2017 CN Editorial Team

US national ceremony to mark WWI Centennial – April 2017

America will commemorate the centenary of its entry into the First World War with a national ceremony on April 6, the US WWI Centennial Commission announces.

February 8, 2017 CN Editorial Team

Article: Cork commemorates WW1 links with the US Navy

The 'huge' impact of the US naval presence on Irish coastal communities during the First World War is discussed by the Irish Examiner.

February 10, 2017 CN Editorial Team

France prepares for Battle of Chemin des Dames Centenary

Commemorations will be taking place in the Aisne region at Easter to mark the centenary of the First World War battle that shook French morale to the core in April 1917.

February 13, 2017 CN Editorial Team

Article: Flanders memorials to commemorate Irish soldiers killed in 1917

Memorials to be erected in Belgium this year to Irishmen who died during the battles of 1917 include a tribute to Major Willie Redmond, reports The Irish Times.

February 14, 2017 CN Editorial Team

New Zealand marks Battle of Messines Centenary – June 2017

New Zealand will hold events in Belgium on June 7 to commemorate its role in the Battle of Messines, a dramatic prelude to the main Allied offensive at Ypres in 1917.

February 15, 2017 CN Editorial Team

‘Passchendaele Remembered’ – 3rd Battle of Ypres Centenary events update

The latest on commemorations coming up in Flanders in 2017 to mark the centenary of a WW1 campaign fought in some of the most atrocious conditions on the Western Front.

February 18, 2017 CN Editorial Team

Appeal for information about 15 First World War soldiers

Researchers are appealing for help to discover the personal stories of 15 First World War soldiers commemorated at the offices of Lloyd’s Register in London.

February 18, 2017 CN Editorial Team

‘Pioneers to Professionals: Women and the Royal Navy’ – Exhibition at UK naval museum

The role of women in the British navy will be explored in a centenary exhibition opening at the National Museum of the Royal Navy, Portsmouth, on 18 February 2017.

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February 20, 2017 CN Editorial Team

We Die Like Brothers: The Sinking of the SS Mendi

Publisher’s Description:’We Die Like Brothers is the first book to tell the story of the Mendi, from both a historical and archaeological perspective, of the men of the South African Native Labour Corps who died in the wreck, and the political aftermath of the tragedy.’

Publication Date: 15 Feb 2017

Author: John Gribble & Graham Scott

February 21, 2017 CN Editorial Team

100 Years Ago: South African troops lost in SS Mendi disaster

The troopship SS Mendi sank after a collision in the English Channel on 21 February 1917, claiming the lives of more than 600 South Africans being sent to the Western Front.