News – Page 144 – First World War Centenary News Archive

March 18, 2016 CN Editorial Team

100 Years Ago: Russia’s Lake Naroch offensive against the German Army

Russia attacked on the Eastern Front on March 18th 1916, in a failed attempt to ease German pressure on France at Verdun.

March 20, 2016 CN Editorial Team

Jutland Update – May 31 Centenary service at Portsmouth Naval Memorial

Britain’s Royal Navy will hold a parade and remembrance service in Southsea on May 31st 2016 as part of UK commemorations marking the Battle of Jutland Centenary.

March 21, 2016 CN Editorial Team

Somme Centenary – 2016 cultural programme at Péronne WW1 museum

Conferences focussing on the German occupation of the Somme and France’s role in the 1916 offensive feature in a centenary cultural programme organised by the Museum of the Great War, Péronne.

March 22, 2016 CN Editorial Team

Somme Centenary – CWGC update on visiting Thiepval, June-July 2016

Access to the Thiepval Memorial will be restricted over the immediate Somme Centenary period, the Commonwealth War Graves Commission announces.

March 25, 2016 CN Editorial Team

National Museum of Ireland exhibition marks 1916 Centenary

The events of the Easter Rising are told in a new centenary exhibition at the National Museum of Ireland, Dublin.

March 27, 2016 CN Editorial Team

Easter ceremonies in Ireland remember 1916 uprising against British rule

Big crowds lined the streets of Dublin on Easter Sunday (March 27th 2016) for commemorations marking the centenary of the Easter Rising during WW1.

March 30, 2016 CN Editorial Team

Centennial Countdown Blog Posting for March 2016

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

March 31, 2016 CN Editorial Team

Centenary study doubles New Zealand troop numbers at Gallipoli

The number of New Zealanders who fought at Gallipoli is ‘certain to have been more than 16,000’, military historians in New Zealand say.

April 1, 2016 CN Editorial Team

‘Forgotten Wrecks’ project finds German WW1 warships in Portsmouth

Archaeologists have identifed the remains of two German First World War destroyers in Portsmouth Harbour, home of Britain’s Royal Navy.

April 6, 2016 CN Editorial Team

Jutland Centenary – New CWGC guides to remembering thousands lost at sea

The Commonwealth War Graves Commission is encouraging people to remember the Battle of Jutland, with the launch of new commemorative resources for the May 2016 Centenary.