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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
Continue reading“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.
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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.
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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.
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Undeveloped First World War negatives discovered in German library archives
Centenary News writer, Katherine Quinlan-Flatter, describes how her research into the life of a young German doctor at the Western Front has led her to rediscover an undeveloped film of the last days of the war in a German archive.
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The ‘Mothers of the Missing’ and the unveiling of the Menin Gate in 1927
The 30,000th sounding of the Last Post at the Menin Gate in July 2015, reminded Dr Viv Newman of the unveiling ceremonies held in Ypres on July 24th 1927. In an article for Centenary News, she explains how one very special group attended the unveiling.
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WW1 photographer Jeff Gusky reveals his new pictures of the hidden Somme
Jeff Gusky has shared with Centenary News his latest remarkable pictures of underground inscriptions carved by First World War soldiers fighting on the Somme a century ago. Dr Gusky spoke to CN Deputy Editor Peter Alhadeff.
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