News – Page 140 – First World War Centenary News Archive

January 19, 2016 CN Editorial Team

News of My Boy Jack? – Solving the mystery of John Kipling

A century of mystery about the fate of author Rudyard Kipling’s son, Jack, during the Battle of Loos in 1915 may have been solved, according to new research published by the Western Front Association.

January 20, 2016 CN Editorial Team

The Great War in the Middle East – Sandhurst conference April 2016

An international conference re-examining the origins, conduct and consequences of the First World War in the Middle East is to be held at the Royal Military Academy Sandhurst from April 20th-21st 2016.

January 21, 2016 CN Editorial Team

New Zealand honours its Great War tunnellers with new memorial

The soldiers of the New Zealand Tunnelling Company are being remembered with the dedication of a new memorial in the former mining town of Waihi.

January 24, 2016 CN Editorial Team

Centenary update – Navy Museum to challenge ‘belief Jutland was a German victory’

The National Museum of the Royal Navy says its Jutland Centenary exhibition, opening on May 19th 2016, will challenge “the belief that the battle was a German victory.”

January 26, 2016 CN Editorial Team

Japan and the First World War – London lecture

Japan’s role in the First World War will be the focus for a lecture in London, hosted by The Japan Society, on February 15th 2016.

January 27, 2016 CN Editorial Team

100 Years Ago Today: Britain passes law introducing conscription

The British Parliament passed the Military Service Act on January 27th 1916, making single men aged 18-41 liable for call-up to fight in the First World War.

January 29, 2016 CN Editorial Team

Winning US World War I Memorial design unveiled in Washington

America’s Centennial Commission has announced the winning design for Washington’s national memorial to US soldiers who fought in the First World War.

January 31, 2016 CN Editorial Team

Centennial Countdown Blog Posting for January 2016

The latest Centennial Countdown posting by the American First World War blogger Dennis Cross – covering January 1916.

February 1, 2016 CN Editorial Team

Bids sought to host Tower of London poppies in 2017

The UK WW1 Centenary arts programme, 14-18 NOW, is inviting expressions of interest from locations wanting to host the Tower of London poppy sculptures in 2017.

February 3, 2016 CN Editorial Team

UK acts to keep Lawrence of Arabia’s dagger and robes

The British Government has placed temporary export bans on a dagger and traditional robes worn by Lawrence of Arabia in the hope of finding a buyer to keep them in the UK.