Articles – Page 20 – First World War Centenary News Archive

May 15, 2014 CN Editorial Team

RAF Museum creates new exhibition to tell the ‘often overlooked’ story of air power in the First World War

The Royal Air Force Museum is developing a new exhibition to explore the growth of air power in the First World War, from early reconnaissance flights to the coordinated use of aircraft and artillery.

May 17, 2014 CN Editorial Team

Centenary News given rare view of Iraqi Commonwealth First World War Cemetery

Author Sean McLachlan writes about his visit to Baghdad North Gate Cemetery where Commonwealth and Turkish First World War dead are buried.

May 25, 2014 CN Editorial Team

Historian’s Centenary mission to find 10,000 World War One memorials across America

Washington Art historian Mark Levitch has embarked on an ambitious Memorial Inventory Project to uncover the 10,000 or more American World War One memorials scattered across the country.

May 26, 2014 CN Editorial Team

First World War romance between a wounded hero & nurse who thought he was a German spy

An extraordinary love story, between a heroic British Captain and a nurse who believed he was a German spy, has been uncovered by students looking back into First World War archives.

May 28, 2014 CN Editorial Team

The photograph which reveals the “muddled and mangled” history of assassin Gavrilo Princip

In a special article for Centenary News, author Tim Butcher reveals the myths and historical mistakes which surround the story of gunman Gavrilo Princip.

May 29, 2014 CN Editorial Team

Arthur Machen and his regret at starting the First World War myth of the Angels of Mons

Rosalie Parker, publicity officer of The Friends of Arthur Machen, explains how the First World War myth of the Angels of Mons grew out of a fictional story by the Welsh writer.

June 2, 2014 CN Editorial Team

Flanders House holds annual memorial service at Manhattan’s DeWitt Clinton Park

Dr. Jillian Davidson writes for Centenary News about Flanders House's annual memorial service at the Clinton War Memorial as the Centenary approaches.

June 2, 2014 CN Editorial Team

Centennial Countdown to the Great War: May 1914

A monthly blog by Dennis Cross documents events taking place 100 years ago.

June 5, 2014 CN Editorial Team

Trentino remembers La Guerra Bianca as it prepares for the Centenary

Mike Swain reports on plans underway in Trentino, northern Italy, to mark the 'White War', which saw thousands of Austro-Hungarian and Italian troops engage in the mountains.

June 6, 2014 CN Editorial Team

Series of articles explore the impact of the First World War on Bermuda

To mark the Centenary of the First World War, The Bermuda Sun is exploring the impact the conflict had on Bermuda as part of the British Empire.