Articles – Page 27 – First World War Centenary News Archive

March 4, 2015 CN Editorial Team

Britain pays tribute to First World War Victoria Cross winners from overseas

First World War holders of the Victoria Cross born overseas are remembered on 145 commemorative paving stones, unveiled at the UK's National Memorial Arboretum in 2015. Peter Alhadeff reports.

March 5, 2015 CN Editorial Team

WW1 online medical records project hits 100,000 names

UK military genealogy specialists, Forces War Records, have now transcribed 100,000 medical records of British First World War soldiers as part of a project to make them available online Nicki Giles, from Forces War Records, considers a doctor's life on the Western Front.

March 9, 2015 CN Editorial Team

Leeds remembers Indian student who fought as Yorkshire volunteer

Historians have shed new light on the story of the only Indian soldier among a group of Yorkshire volunteers who fought on the Western Front. Peter Alhadeff reports.

March 17, 2015 CN Editorial Team

Franco-German exhibition explores First World War in the Upper Rhine

A travelling exhibition looks at life in the border region of Baden, Germany and Alsace, France during the First World War. Katherine Quinlan-Flatter reports from Baden-Baden.

March 27, 2015 CN Editorial Team

Gallipoli troops of the ‘Immortal 29th Division’ remembered 100 years after parade for the King

A ceremony has been held in Warwickshire to mark the centenary of British troops parading past King George V before they left for Gallipoli. Lyn Edmonds, of the Gallipoli Association, tells their story.

April 7, 2015 CN Editorial Team

Centenary News visits the new Mons Memorial Museum in Belgium

A former waterworks in Mons has been transformed into a new museum remembering the city's historic role in the First World War. CN Deputy Editor Peter Alhadeff reports from Mons.

April 16, 2015 CN Editorial Team

Article: ‘Killing Fields of the Young Turks’ by Justin Marozzi

An article in the UK's Spectator magazine challenges the legacy of the "Armenian genocide" in both Armenian and Turkish history.

April 20, 2015 CN Editorial Team

Article: Germaine Greer assesses Gallipoli and the ‘myth of Australian nationhood’

Germain Greer explores three recent publications on the Gallipoli campaign to asses whether Australia was "born on the battlefield".

April 21, 2015 CN Editorial Team

Gallipoli: Veterans’ relations going to Turkey for Centenary tribute

Fifteen descendants of veterans who took part in the Gallipoli campaign are travelling to Turkey to attend the centenary commemorations for the Allied landings in 1915. CN Deputy Editor, Peter Alhadeff, takes up their story.

April 22, 2015 CN Editorial Team

Article: Remembering female munitions workers of the First World War

An article in The Guardian highlights the vital role women played in the war effort, particularly in munitions production.