Articles – Page 31 – First World War Centenary News Archive

March 1, 2016 CN Editorial Team

Memorials for a King & Country: Plans for tribute in UK to Portugal’s fallen

This article has been written for Centenary News by Bernard Hornung, the Chairman of the Anglo-Portuguese Society – about Portugal's role in the First World War, and plans for a memorial in the UK.

March 8, 2016 CN Editorial Team

‘Remnants’ – Review of South African artist’s Somme exhibition in Boston

Susan Werbe reviews 'Remnants', artist Paul Emmanuel's installation remembering the missing soldiers of the Somme, at Boston University's 808 Gallery in the United States.

March 24, 2016 CN Editorial Team

100 Years Ago: Battle of the St Eloi Craters

March 27th 2016 marked the centenary of the largely forgotten ‘Battle of the St Eloi Craters’, fought in a landscape pitted by mine explosions near Ypres. Matt Warner tells the story.

April 14, 2016 CN Editorial Team

Centenary News focus on US First World War volunteers

Patrick Gregory discusses how America's voluntary effort took shape in WW1, as a new exhibition opens at the National World War I Museum and Memorial in Kansas City, Missouri.

April 18, 2016 CN Editorial Team

Centenary tribute to America’s WWI pilots in France – April 20

As the US and France prepare for a rededication ceremony to mark the centennial of a group of American pilots entering the First World War, Patrick Gregory looks back at the impact of the volunteer airmen.

May 26, 2016 CN Editorial Team

Lt General Sir Frederick Stanley Maude – the ‘unknown victor’ in the Middle East

The General who rebuilt British and Indian forces for the Mesopotamia Campaign after the fall of Kut in April 1916 is discussed by Paul Knight.

June 10, 2016 CN Editorial Team

America prepares to remember – US views of WW1 Centennial

As the US National World War I Museum announces major expansion plans, Patrick Gregory asks if the approaching Centenary will raise American interest in the First World War.

June 24, 2016 CN Editorial Team

100 Years Ago Today: Battle of Lukigura in East Africa

Inspired by the story of his soldier grandfather and the Kashmir Rifles, Andrew Kerr discusses the gruelling East Africa campaign on the centenary of the Battle of Lukigura.

June 29, 2016 CN Editorial Team

Painting the Somme – Centenary exhibition in London

Artist Hughie O'Donoghue talks to Patrick Gregory about 'Seven Halts on the Somme' – a special display of his paintings at Leighton House Museum, London.

October 8, 2016 CN Editorial Team

Article: ‘When Bombs Fell on Freiburg 100 Years Ago’

The centenary of an Allied air raid on the German city of Freiburg in October 1916 is marked with an article in the Badische Zeitung newspaper.