News – Page 10 – First World War Centenary News Archive

January 10, 2013 CN Editorial Team

Remembering Victoria Cross recipient

The BBC has reported that a 13 year old British boy is helping to maintain the neglected grave of a First World War soldier.

January 11, 2013 CN Editorial Team

Cornish Centenary exhibition confirmed

The Cornish Guardian has reported that The Heritage Lottery Fund has awarded funding of almost £10,000 to Bodmin Museum, Cornwall, England.

January 14, 2013 CN Editorial Team

Scottish memorial renovations

The BBC reports that the First Minister of Scotland, Alex Salmond, has announced the cleaning and restoration of Scotland’s war memorials as part of efforts to mark the centenary of the First World War.

January 15, 2013 CN Editorial Team

UK controversy over the Centenary

British newspapers report claims that the British government is avoiding a tone of celebration in the Centenary.

January 15, 2013 CN Editorial Team

Britain’s first black officer

A play about the life of the first Black British Army Officer, Walter Tull, has been commissioned, the BBC has reported.

January 18, 2013 CN Editorial Team

Railway workers of wartime Britain

The UK’s National Railway Museum has launched a database of 20,000 railway workers who died in the First World War.

January 20, 2013 CN Editorial Team

First zeppelin raid on Britain

The British newspaper The Guardian, highlights a picture of the first German Zeppelin raid on Britain in 1915.

January 21, 2013 CN Editorial Team

Community memories of war in Australia

Monash University in Melbourne, Australia, has launched a project focusing on community memories of the First World War.

January 22, 2013 CN Editorial Team

International Centenary Conference

An international conference, ‘Perspectives on the ‘Great’ War’,will take place in London in 2014.

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January 22, 2013 CN Editorial Team

WW1 or FWW?

The UK’s Imperial War Museum is recommending its partners avoid using the term ‘World War One’.