News – Page 107 – First World War Centenary News Archive

November 24, 2014 CN Editorial Team

100 years ago: Battle of Łodz on the Eastern Front

German and Russian troops fought a prolonged battle near the Polish city of odz in November 1914 as winter was setting in on the Eastern Front.

November 25, 2014 CN Editorial Team

Dulmial: the Pakistani ‘village with the gun’ honouring 460 First World War soldiers

The story of a small Punjab village’s significant contribution to the British war effort in 1914-18 is being brought to a wider audience for the Centenary.

November 26, 2014 CN Editorial Team

Volunteers wanted to track down ‘lost’ UK Great War munitions factories

Historian and broadcaster, Dan Snow, is calling on people around Britain to help find the sites of ‘missing’ First World War munitions factories which employed thousands of women.

November 27, 2014 CN Editorial Team

First World War Exhibition opens at National Library of Ireland

An exhibition has opened at the National Library of Ireland, in Dublin, running from November 2014 until the end of centenary events in 2018, which reveals the impact of the First World War in Ireland.

November 28, 2014 CN Editorial Team

‘The Unknown Warrior’ locomotive project steams towards target

A UK charity raising money to build a memorial steam locomotive has reached the £1 million mark in the Centenary year of the First World War.

November 29, 2014 CN Editorial Team

Centenary Update: UK watchdog rules out inquiry into supermarket Christmas truce advert

Britain’s advertising regulator decides there are no grounds for launching an investigation into a Sainsbury’s supermarket advert featuring the First World War Christmas truce.

December 1, 2014 CN Editorial Team

Christmas truce: countdown to Centenary events in December 2014

Centenary News previews events coming up in December 2014 to mark the 100th anniversary of the Christmas truce on the Western Front.

December 2, 2014 CN Editorial Team

Bridge of Weir Memorial Society launches new website

The Bridge of Weir Memorial Society has launched a new website to tell the stories of the 72 young men whose names are commemorated on war memorials in their village in west Scotland.

December 2, 2014 CN Editorial Team

Double honours for First World War soldier’s story at IWM film awards

A film re-imagining the letters sent home by a British First World War soldier as a series of tweets has won two awards at the Imperial War Museum’s 2014 Short Film Festival.

December 3, 2014 CN Editorial Team

UK to pay back outstanding First World War debt

The British government has announced that it will repay all of the nation’s outstanding First World War debt in 2015.