Articles – Page 28 – First World War Centenary News Archive

April 23, 2015 CN Editorial Team

“If I should die think only this of me”: the death of Rupert Brooke

The English poet Rupert Brooke died on April 23rd 1915 en route to Gallipoli. Peter Biles has written this feature about his death for Centenary News. His grandfather, Harry Biles, was part of the group that went ashore to bury Brooke.

April 23, 2015 CN Editorial Team

Article: ‘Ireland: Easter Rising or Great War?’

John Gibney explores the complicated relationship between Ireland's First World War contribution and it's independence movement.

April 24, 2015 CN Editorial Team

Article: The Armenia Genocide, 100 years on

A New York Times article assess the complicated history of the Armenian 'genocide', 100 years after the beginning of the mass killings.

April 24, 2015 CN Editorial Team

Article: ‘Did the use of poison gas pave the way for the Holocaust?’

An article in the International Business Times wonders about the reaction to the first use of poison gas in warfare, and what connection it had to the Holocaust.

April 27, 2015 CN Editorial Team

Article: The scientists who worked to defeat poison gas

One hundred years after the first use of chemical gas during the First World War, Guardian writer Simon Jones explores the frantic work by British scientists to find a quick and effective way to counter the deadly results.

April 27, 2015 CN Editorial Team

Article: Centenary of the historic 1915 Congress of Women

An article in The Guardian explores the Women's Congress of 1915, when over 1000 female activists convened at the Hague to push for peace and women's rights.

April 28, 2015 CN Editorial Team

Centennial Countdown Blog Posting for April 2015

The latest Centennial Countdown posting by the American First World War blogger Dennis Cross – covering April 1915.

April 30, 2015 CN Editorial Team

Article: ‘Telling the story of American aviation in WWI’

An article in Alaska Dispatch News explores the evolution of aviation during the First World War, and the young Americans who served in air combat missions before the United States joined the war in 1917.

May 4, 2015 CN Editorial Team

The Jewish community of Sydney commemorates “mateship” as the spirit of the Anzac centenary

1,300 people gathered on Sunday, May 3rd 2015, in the Great Synagogue of Sydney, Australia, for The Anzac Centenary Commemorative Service of the NSW Jewish Community. Jillian Davidson attended the event.

May 18, 2015 CN Editorial Team

Book and website on extraordinary letters from the First World War

An author from Kent in the UK, Aura Hargreaves, has compiled a book and website featuring the letters sent between her grandfather, a 2nd Lieutenant in the Kings Royal Rifle Corps, and his fiancee – written between 1915 and 1919.