Articles – Page 35 – First World War Centenary News Archive

September 27, 2017 CN Editorial Team

‘A Soldier’s Journey’ explored – with US WWI Memorial sculptor Sabin Howard

US sculptor Sabin Howard tells Centenary News how a visit to New Zealand is helping to shape his designs for America's new National World War I Memorial.

October 30, 2017 CN Editorial Team

US Centennial article: ‘Perpetuating the French-American legacy’

WWI Centennial Commissioner Monique Seefried highlights the involvement of many young people at a ceremony in France commemorating the historical bonds with the US.

October 31, 2017 CN Editorial Team

100 Years Ago: Battle of Beersheba opens Allied way to Palestine

Allied fortunes in the Sinai campaign turned following the arrival of a new commander, and victory at Beersheba on 31 October 1917, writes Major Paul Knight.

November 2, 2017 CN Editorial Team

Article: ‘The Contested Centenary’ – Britain’s Balfour Declaration

The centenary of the British Government's First World War promise to 'establish a Jewish national home' in Palestine is being 'revisited with passion and anger', an article in The Guardian says.

November 7, 2017 CN Editorial Team

Article: ‘There was nothing inevitable about the Bolshevik revolution’

The Russian uprising of November 1917 could have been short-lived, like so many other failed revolutions of that era, Simon Sebag Montefiore writes in The New York Times.

November 7, 2017 CN Editorial Team

100 Years Ago: Bolsheviks seize power in the Russian Revolution

On the Centenary of the Bolshevik coup, Patrick Gregory looks back at the turmoil which propelled Lenin's revolutionaries to power in Russia during the First World War.

November 8, 2017 CN Editorial Team

Remembering cricketer Colin Blythe – Killed in Flanders 100 years ago

CN contributor Andy Moreton pays tribute to the champion cricketer, Colin Blythe, on the centenary of his death in the Great War.

November 27, 2017 CN Editorial Team

Article: 250 cemeteries in France to be lit for close of Great War Centenary

Illuminated vigils are planned at war graves in the Arras region on Armistice eve 2018 to mark the return of peace 100 years ago, La Voix du Nord newspaper reports.

December 3, 2017 CN Editorial Team

WWI veteran USS Texas battles for survival

Campaigners are urgently appealing for support to save the last surviving American battleship of both world wars from the scrapyard, reports Patrick Gregory.

December 11, 2017 CN Editorial Team

100 Years Ago: Jerusalem falls to British-led forces

General Sir Edmund Allenby entered Jerusalem on 11 December 1917 after a six-week campaign against the Ottomans in Palestine, as Major Paul Knight explains.