The story of thousands of people identified as ‘enemy aliens’ in Canada during the First World War is told in a special exhibition at the Canadian War Museum in Ottawa.
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Memory and the Education of Memory : Canada and the First World War Symposium
The ‘Canada and the First World War’ Symposium was held in Toronto on the 28th September 2014 – attended by some of Canada’s leading experts on military history.
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The first English League footballer killed in action in 1914: told by the Western Front Association
The Western Front Association tells the story of Larrett Roebuck, the first English League footballer killed in France 100 years ago.
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Your Loving Son: The letters home of Cuthbert H T Lucas August 1914
Captain Cuthbert Lucas’s arrival in France was obviously an auspicious one. Very much the advance party for the BEF, he had been sent to provide the coordination for the successful disembarkation.
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‘Menin Gate at Midnight’ – a personal view by Christopher J. Harvie
CN writer Christopher J. Harvie, discusses ‘Menin Gate at Midnight’, the William Longstaff painting on loan to the Canadian War Museum for ‘Fighting in Flanders-Gas. Mud. Memory,’ a Centenary exhibition starting in November 2014.
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100 Years Ago Today: The Lahore Division takes the field at Battle of Ypres
Soldiers of the Lahore Division of Britain’s colonial Indian Army went into action in Belgium for the first time on October 24th 1914. CN writer Christopher J. Harvie discusses a critical moment in the First Battle of Ypres.
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New French museum remembers Australian & British war dead at Fromelles
Centenary News visits the Museum of the Battle of Fromelles, which tells the story of how the remains of 250 soldiers were recovered, almost a century after they fell in France.
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Flanders House promotes the 2014 publication of ‘Americans in Occupied Belgium, 1914-1918’
Centenary News writer Jillian Davidson attended a Flanders House NY book launch for Ed and Libby Klekowski’s new publication, Americans in Occupied Belgium, 1914-1918.
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From the author: notes on David Hynes’ poetry collection ‘This Thing of Memory’
This Thing of Memory is a new volume of poems by David Hynes, examining the impact of the First World War. The author, David Hynes, has written about his motivation and approach to this collection for Centenary News.
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“Liberté!” A French-Canadian one-man show inspired by Canada’s WWI history
Centenary News writer, Christopher Harvie, discusses “Liberté!”, the one -man, one act play that attempts to give a voice to a unique part of Canada’s First World War heritage in French.
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