Students from two schools in Edinburgh have visited the Gallipoli battlefields on a second tour organised by the UK-based Gallipoli Centenary Education Project.
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Serb soldiers of the Great War remembered at Paris exhibition
An exhibition paying tribute to Serbia’s First World War soldiers has just opened at the Serbian Cultural Centre in Paris, running until November 14th 2015.
Continue reading‘An Oasis in a World Gone Crazy’ – London exhibition remembers Talbot House in WW1
Centenary News visits a new exhibition in London, paying tribute to ‘Tubby’ Clayton and Talbot House, the ‘home from home’ he created for British soldiers behind the lines in Belgium in 1915.
Continue readingNew Zealand’s latest WW1 trail guide follows the Western Front
New Zealand has released its latest interactive guide to First World War battlefields of significance for New Zealanders, this time exploring the Western Front.
Continue readingSomme Centenary – Ticket bids invited for 2016 Lochnagar Crater service
Tickets can now be requested for admission to the Lochnagar Crater centenary ceremony on July 1st 2016, organisers have announced.
Continue readingItalian conference to debate century of humanitarian crisis 1915-2015
The fate of millions of First World War refugees will be explored at a conference in Italy from November 4-6 as Europe again struggles with a humanitarian emergency.
Continue readingUK newspapers cover First World War comments by Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn
A group of national newspapers in the UK have given prominent coverage to comments made in 2013 by Jeremy Corbyn, the leader of the British Labour Party – in which he talks about the UK government spending “shedloads of money” on the centenary of the war.
Continue readingCentennial Countdown Blog Posting for October 2015
The latest Centennial Countdown posting by the American First World War blogger Dennis Cross – covering October 1915.
Continue readingUK Remembrance Sunday: Big Ben lit with poppies & 1915 battles
Poppies have again been screened onto the UK Parliament’s BIg Ben clock tower for Remembrance Sunday, focussing this year on the battles of 1915.
Continue readingArmistice Day ceremonies November 2015
The 97th anniversary of the Armistice ending the Great War will be marked with commemorations across the world on Wednesday November 11th 2015.
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