News – Page 137 – First World War Centenary News Archive

November 29, 2015 CN Editorial Team

Centenary News focus on new Lens 14-18 museum in France

Centenary News profiles Lens’ 14-18 – Centre d’Histoire Guerre et Paix, a museum opened in 2015 to remember all those who fought in Northern France during the Great War.

November 30, 2015 CN Editorial Team

Centennial Countdown Blog Posting for November 2015

The latest Centennial Countdown posting by the American First World War blogger Dennis Cross – covering November 1915.

November 30, 2015 CN Editorial Team

Tower of London Poppies – 2016 UK display venues announced

The Tower of London poppy installations, Wave and Weeping Window, will next be displayed in Lincoln, Perth and Caernarfon, UK WW1 Centenary art commissioning body 14-18 NOW has announced.

December 1, 2015 CN Editorial Team

Centenary News explores Nick Jellicoe’s Jutland anniversary website

A new website telling the story of the Battle of Jutland has been launched for the 2016 Centenary by Nick Jellicoe, grandson of Britain’s First World War naval commander, Admiral Sir John Jellicoe.

December 2, 2015 CN Editorial Team

First World War shipwrecks revealed in 3D off England’s south coast

Images of a fishing boat sunk in 1917 while on war service with the British Navy have been released by the Maritime Archaeology Trust as part of a Centenary project exploring WW1 shipwrecks.

December 5, 2015 CN Editorial Team

Gallipoli warship draws 50,000th visitor

The restored Gallipoli gunboat, HMS M.33, has attracted 50,000 visitors since opening four months ago, the UK’s National Museum of the Royal Navy has announced.

December 6, 2015 CN Editorial Team

Gallipoli Centenary Education Project completes battlefield tours programme

Staff and students from a Devon school in the UK have visited the battlefields of the Dardanelles on the third and final tour of a programme organised by the Gallipoli Centenary Education Project.

December 7, 2015 CN Editorial Team

100 Years Ago Today: Ottoman siege of Kut starts in Mesopotamia

Ottoman troops trapped a British-Indian force in the town of Kut-al-Amara on December 7th 1915, heralding a siege that lasted almost five months.

December 7, 2015 CN Editorial Team

100 Years Ago Today: British ministers order Gallipoli pull-out

The British Government ordered the withdrawal of Allied troops from Anzac Cove and Suvla on December 7th 1915, signalling the end of the Gallipoli campaign.

December 9, 2015 CN Editorial Team

French memorial planned for New Zealand capital Wellington

The ties forged between France and New Zealand during the First World War are to be commemorated with a monument in Pukeahu National War Memorial Park in Wellington.