The 100th anniversary of the Zeebrugge Raid is being marked in the UK with special events in Dover on April 23.
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Dover salutes courage of the Zeebrugge Raid
Centenary News rounds off coverage of the 2018 Zeebrugge Raid Centenary events with a report from Dover’s commemorations marking the 100th anniversary of the strikes against German U-boat bases.
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Blankenberge’s tribute to George Nicholson Bradford VC
The family of Lt Cdr George Bradford – one of the only pair of brothers both to receive the Victoria Cross in WW1 – have expressed their ‘heartfelt thanks’ for a new memorial to him in Flanders marking the Zeebrugge Raid Centenary.
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Australia’s new Sir John Monash Centre at Villers-Bretonneux
Australia has opened a new multi-media visitor centre in France, commemorating Australian forces on the Western Front at the scene of some of their most successful WW1 actions.
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‘Battle for the North Sea’ exhibition in Flanders unites 11 Victoria Crosses
Centenary News tours a new exhibition in Bruges, bringing together all the Zeebrugge Raid Victoria Crosses – and highlighting both sides of the WW1 struggle between Flanders -based German submarines and Britain’s Royal Navy.
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German push halted at Villers-Bretonneux, 25 April 1918
Australian troops, supported by British units, scored a notable victory on Anzac Day 1918, halting a German advance towards Amiens with its strategically important railway junction.
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Spring 1918 – The US air effort takes off
The rise of American power in WWI, told by Patrick Gregory on the Centennial of ‘Ace of Aces’ Eddie Rickenbacker scoring his first victory in the skies.
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Spring 1918 – The US air effort takes off
The rise of American power in WWI, told by Patrick Gregory on the Centennial of 'Ace of Aces' Eddie Rickenbacker scoring his first victory in the skies.
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Stars & Stripes return to Islay, 100 years on
An American flag made by Scottish islanders to honour US soldiers of the Great War who perished in a U-boat attack has travelled back to Islay for international commemorations taking place on Friday (May 4).
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Navies pay combined tribute to ‘Tuscania’ and ‘Otranto’ off Islay
Scotland’s commemorations for the American and British dead of the WW1 troopships SS Tuscania and HMS Otranto got under way with tributes at sea by the British, US, French and German navies.
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