News – Page 147 – First World War Centenary News Archive

May 2, 2016 CN Editorial Team

Somme motorway break for battlefield photo exhibition

A Somme motorway service area is the latest destination for photographer Michael St Maur Sheil’s centenary touring exhibition, Fields of Battle – Lands of Peace 14-18.

May 3, 2016 CN Editorial Team

Pioneering US WWI pilots remembered in France

France and the US paid tribute to America’s first airmen of the Great War at a ceremony rededicating the Lafayette Escadrille Memorial near Paris on April 20th 2016.

May 4, 2016 CN Editorial Team

Public in Hungary voting on new national First World War monument

Hungary’s First World War Commission is asking people to vote on designs for a new monument to commemorate the Hungarians who died in the war.

May 6, 2016 CN Editorial Team

Canada’s Vimy Oaks returning to France for 2017 Centennial

A project is under way in Canada to ‘repatriate’ descendants of French oak trees for the centenary commemorations of the Battle of Vimy Ridge in 2017.

May 6, 2016 CN Editorial Team

‘They shall not pass’ – US WWI Museum highlights Verdun & the Somme

The Battles of Verdun and the Somme are the focus for a new exhibition opening today (May 6th 2016) at the National World World War I Museum in Kansas City, Missouri.

May 10, 2016 CN Editorial Team

‘Her Side of the War’ – Women at the front remembered in Flanders

The stories of women who contributed to the Allied war effort are highlighted in Flanders with a special programme of events entitled ‘Her Side of the War.’

May 10, 2016 CN Editorial Team

Designs sought for remembrance path marking Somme Centenary

The UK government is inviting people to make their mark on a remembrance path being laid in Manchester for the Battle of the Somme Centenary on July 1st 2016.

May 11, 2016 CN Editorial Team

‘Jutland: The Unfinished Battle’ – Centenary exhibition in Germany

A special exhibition opens at the Deutches Marinemuseum on May 29th 2016 as part of a weekend of remembrance in Wilhelmshaven marking the centenary of the Skagerrakschlacht/Battle of Jutland.

May 12, 2016 CN Editorial Team

Jutland – Scotland to mark Centenary on Firth of Forth

A ceremony has been held on the Firth of Forth to launch Scotland’s national commemorations for the Battle of Jutland Centenary.

May 16, 2016 CN Editorial Team

100 Years Ago: The Sykes-Picot Agreement

Britain and France concluded a secret deal in May 1916 for dividing the Middle East between them after the defeat of the Ottoman Empire.