News – Page 124 – First World War Centenary News Archive

May 15, 2015 CN Editorial Team

Thousands who refused to take up arms remembered online by IWM

The names of 16,500 conscientious objectors were added to the Imperial War Museum’s Centenary memorial website today (May 15th 2015) – International Conscientious Objectors Day.

May 18, 2015 CN Editorial Team

Tribute to mark 30,000th Last Post at the Menin Gate – July 2015

A global tribute is planned to accompany the 30,000th sounding of the Last Post at the Menin Gate, Ypres, on July 9th 2015.

May 18, 2015 CN Editorial Team

‘The Dreamers’ – new musical tribute to soldiers lost at sea off Gallipoli

A musical telling the story of a British officer and his soldiers who drowned at sea on their way to Gallipoli is being brought to the London stage in summer 2015.

May 19, 2015 CN Editorial Team

Eight Canadian First World War soldiers reburied on the Somme

Eight Canadian soldiers have been reburied with full military honours in France, almost a century after they were killed in the closing months of the First World War.

May 22, 2015 CN Editorial Team

100 Years Ago Today: More than 200 British troops die in train disaster

A troop train crashed in the worst rail disaster in UK history, near Gretna in Scotland, on May 22nd 1915.

May 23, 2015 CN Editorial Team

Commemoration event held to mark the Quintinshill rail disaster

The centenary of the Quintinshill rail disaster was commemorated today in Gretna in Scotland at an event attended by Princess Anne, Scotland’s First Minister Nicola Sturgeon, and descendents of some of those who died.

May 23, 2015 CN Editorial Team

100 Years Ago Today: Italy enters the First World War

Italy entered hostilities on the Allied side on May 23rd 1915, declaring war on the Austro-Hungarian Empire.

May 24, 2015 CN Editorial Team

100 Years Ago Today: Gallipoli truce to bury the dead

A brief truce took place in the fighting between Anzac forces and Turkish troops at Gallipoli on May 24th 1915.

May 25, 2015 CN Editorial Team

Italian President leads commemoration of country’s entry into First World War

President Sergio Mattarella attended commemorations in Rome and Fiuli Venezia Giulia to mark the 100th anniversary of Italy’s entry into the First World War on May 24th 2015.

May 31, 2015 CN Editorial Team

100 Years Ago Today: First air raid on London

A German Zeppelin bombed London for the first time on May 31st 1915, killing seven people.