News – Page 136 – First World War Centenary News Archive

November 11, 2015 CN Editorial Team

Commemorations worldwide mark Armistice Day

Armistice Day has been observed with moments of silence and the laying of wreaths in countries around the world.

November 12, 2015 CN Editorial Team

French Western Front app explores Bethune & the Artois battles

A new app explores First World War sites at the centre of events in the Béthune area of Northern France a century ago.

November 18, 2015 CN Editorial Team

Somme Centenary: Closing day for Thiepval ticket ballot

The ballot closes today (November 18th) for tickets to attend next year’s Battle of the Somme Centenary commemorations at the Thiepval Memorial in France.

November 18, 2015 CN Editorial Team

More sailors to be remembered on HMS Hampshire memorial in Orkney

Volunteers creating a memorial to the crew of a British warship sunk off Orkney in June 1916 will also include the names of nine more men, lost on a mine-sweeping vessel days later.

November 19, 2015 CN Editorial Team

100 years Ago: UK War Minister backs Gallipoli pull-out & Churchill resigns

Britain’s War Minister, Lord Kitchener, visited Gallipoli and Winston Churchill left the Government in November 1915 amid fading support for the Dardanelles campaign.

November 21, 2015 CN Editorial Team

Overnight vigils to mark 2016 Somme Centenary in UK

Public vigils will be held overnight in England, Wales, Scotland and Northern Ireland on June 30th 2016 to mark the centenary of the Battle of the Somme.

November 22, 2015 CN Editorial Team

100 Years Ago: Ottomans halt British/Indian advance in Mesopotamia

British and Indian troops were halted in their march towards Baghdad at the Battle of Ctesiphon from November 22nd-25th 1915.

November 23, 2015 CN Editorial Team

Harlem’s Rattlers at Flanders House in New York

As part of its centennial “In Flanders Fields Events”, Flanders House hosted a book presentation of Harlem’s Rattlers and the Great War (2014) in its Times Square, Manhattan office on November 17th.

November 25, 2015 CN Editorial Team

Navy museum’s £25,000 appeal to restore sketch of teenage Victoria Cross sailor

Britain’s Royal Navy Museum has started a crowdfunding campaign to raise £25,000 for restoring a sketch of Jack Cornwell, the 16-year-old sailor posthumously awarded the Victoria Cross after the Battle of Jutland.

November 27, 2015 CN Editorial Team

VC soldier’s ‘shovel’ rescue of Gallipoli comrade remembered

The heroism of a British soldier awarded the Victoria Cross for rescuing a wounded comrade under fire at Gallipoli is remembered on a new memorial in his home town of Reading.