News – Page 145 – First World War Centenary News Archive

April 7, 2016 CN Editorial Team

UK call for nationwide vigils to mark Somme Centenary

Cities, towns and villages across Britain are invited to hold their own tributes in summer 2016 to mark 100 years since the start of the Battle of the Somme.

April 7, 2016 CN Editorial Team

Major Austrian exhibition marks Emperor Franz Joseph death centenary

Emperor Franz Joseph’s 68-year reign is re-examined with simultaneous exhibitions in and around Vienna marking the centenary of his death during the First World War.

April 8, 2016 CN Editorial Team

Seven unknown WW1 British soldiers laid to rest in Flanders

Seven unknown British soldiers of the First World War have been reburied at ceremonies in Commonwealth War Graves Commission cemeteries in Belgium.

April 11, 2016 CN Editorial Team

Shell shock on the Somme – Centenary News speaks to Taylor Downing, author of ‘Breakdown’

Centenary News’ Books Editor, Eleanor Baggley, talks to Taylor Downing about Breakdown, his new book focusing on ‘the Crisis of Shell Shock on the Somme’, and how it challenged preconceived notions of mental illness.

April 13, 2016 CN Editorial Team

Actor Hugh Dennis joins CWGC call to remember war dead commemorated in UK

Centenary News reports from the launch of a Commonwealth War Graves Commission initiative encouraging the British public to explore ‘forgotten’ memorials in the UK during the Somme Centenary.

April 14, 2016 CN Editorial Team

America’s volunteers – new exhibition at US National World War I Museum

The many roles of American volunteers in the Great War are highlighted in a new exhibition at the National World War I Museum and Memorial in Kansas City, Missouri.

April 17, 2016 CN Editorial Team

Jutland Centenary website launches video exploring 1916 battle

Nick Jellicoe, grandson of the British commander-in-chief at Jutland, narrates a new video describing key episodes in the biggest naval battle of the First World War.

April 19, 2016 CN Editorial Team

‘Changing the Landscape’ – artist’s personal quest for great uncle killed on the Somme

Centenary News visits artist Sarah Kogan’s exhibition telling the story of her great uncle who fell on the first day of the Battle of the Somme.

April 20, 2016 CN Editorial Team

WW1 Australian hospital sketches revealed in France

Previously unpublished portraits of Australian and British soldiers have been released online in a centenary tribute to the Allied forces who fought in France during the First World War.

April 21, 2016 CN Editorial Team

Jellicoe family items for display at UK navy museum’s Jutland exhibition

Uniform and medals belonging to Admiral Sir John Jellicoe, British commander at the Battle of Jutland, will go on display as part of the National Museum of the Royal Navy’s forthcoming centenary exhibition.