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April 25, 2015 CN Editorial Team

100 Years Ago Today: Allied troops land at Gallipoli

One of the most controversial campaigns of the First World War began on April 25th 1915, when the Allied powers invaded the Gallipoli peninsula with the aim of knocking Turkey out of the war.

April 27, 2015 CN Editorial Team

‘Gallipoli: from the Depths to the Trenches’ – exhibition in Istanbul

An exhibition marking the centenary of the Gallipoli campaign, curated by Turkish documentary maker Sava Karaka, runs at the Isbank Museum, Istanbul, until August 15th 2015.

April 28, 2015 CN Editorial Team

WW1 flight pioneer’s office ‘reopens’ at RAF Museum

The office of British aviation pioneer Claude Grahame-White has been meticulously recreated by the Royal Air Force Museum, using a sole surviving photo from 1915.

April 29, 2015 CN Editorial Team

Latest Book Review – Wilful Murder: The Sinking of the Lusitania

Centenary News Review:This is a lively and comprehensive account of the sinking of the Lusitania, and the controversies which still swirl around it. Diana Preston weaves a narrative of intrigue and foreboding that describes how the pride of the Cunard fleet sailed into a German U-boat’s sights.

April 30, 2015 CN Editorial Team

Lusitania Centenary: Historic disaster photos on show in Cobh, Ireland

More than 60 photographs capturing the aftermath of the Lusitania disaster are displayed in the Irish port of Cobh, as it prepares for commemorations next week marking the centenary of the British liner’s sinking by a German submarine.

May 1, 2015 CN Editorial Team

America to commemorate sinking of Lusitania in New York and Washington

The World War One Centennial Commission (the main US official body for commemorating the First World War), will be hosting two events to mark the sinking of the Lusitania on May 7th 1915.

May 2, 2015 CN Editorial Team

London lecture to examine lessons of 1918 flu pandemic

The influenza pandemic which spread across the world with devastating results in the final months of the Great War will be discussed at a lecture in London on May 13th 2015.

May 2, 2015 CN Editorial Team

100 Years Ago Today: Gorlice-Tarnów offensive starts against Russia

German and Austro-Hungarian troops launched a joint offensive in Galicia (present-day Poland) on May 2nd 1915, achieving a major breakthrough against the Russian Army.

May 3, 2015 CN Editorial Team

100 Years Ago Today: John McCrae wrote ‘In Flanders Fields’

It is believed that John McCrae wrote the famous poem on May 3rd 1915.

May 3, 2015 CN Editorial Team

Lusitania Centenary: Irish lifeboat crew re-enacts 1915 rescue call

A veteran lifeboat has been rowed to the wreck site of the Lusitania in tribute to those who went to the aid of the torpedoed liner’s victims on May 7th 1915.