100 years ago today: US commander General John Pershing was welcomed enthusiastically in France, as Patrick Gregory reports.
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The Good, the ‘Bad’ and the Ugly – British aircraft of 1917
Matthew Warner explores the mixed fortunes of three planes introduced by Britain’s Royal Flying Corps in 1917.
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July 1917 – Building the US Air Service for action in WWI
President Wilson signed legislation on 24 July 1917 earmarking $640 million to create an American air force for war, as Patrick Gregory explains.
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From Parsonage to Passchendaele – A British nurse under fire in Flanders
As the Passchendaele commemorations start, ex-BBC correspondent Tim Luard recalls the harrowing experiences of his great aunt as a senior nurse at the Third Battle of Ypres.
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Centenary visit to France honours Edward Foster VC
Evelyn McDermott joined a delegation from Wandsworth honouring a south London soldier awarded the Victoria Cross in 1917, forging post-WW1 ties with Villers Plouich, near Cambrai.
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Discovering the Unknown – Asian Indian soldiers in the US Military during WWI
Stories of Asian Indians who served America in the Great War are being rediscovered and shared by researcher Tanveer Kalo – as he explains here in Centenary News.
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‘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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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