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.
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Category: Features
‘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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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‘France at War’ – Kipling reports from the Front, 1915
Collector Andy Moreton delves into his prized copy of a book of reports from the Western Front by the British writer Rudyard Kipling.
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