News – Page 153 – First World War Centenary News Archive

July 24, 2016 CN Editorial Team

‘India Remembers’ – campaign to highlight Indian sacrifice since 1914

A campaign ‘to transform the culture of remembrance’ in India has been launched in Delhi on the centenary of a noted Indian cavalry charge during the Battle of the Somme.

July 25, 2016 CN Editorial Team

Australia honours the Fallen at Fromelles

Australia is holding commemorations in Northern France marking the first major battles fought by its forces on the Western Front a century ago.

July 26, 2016 CN Editorial Team

Three unknown soldiers buried as Australia marks Pozières Centenary

Australia has remembered its first action on the Somme with commemorations on July 23rd marking the Battle of Pozières in the summer of 1916.

July 27, 2016 CN Editorial Team

Centenary tribute to British seafarer executed in 1916

A century after his execution for attempting to ram a German U-boat, tributes have been paid to the North Sea ferry captain, Charles Fryatt.

August 1, 2016 CN Editorial Team

Battle of Chemin des Dames Centenary 2017 – Aisne call for projects

Centenary News looks ahead to a significant French anniversary, as the Aisne region prepares for commemorations marking the Battle of the Chemin des Dames, also known as the Nivelle Offensive and the Second Battle of the Aisne.

August 2, 2016 CN Editorial Team

UK protects German U-boat wreck in the Channel

The wreck site of a German submarine sunk off the Kent coast during the First World War has been given protected status by the British Government.

August 4, 2016 CN Editorial Team

‘100 Cities’ campaign to restore US war memorials for 2017 Centennial

The US Centennial Commission and Chicago’s Pritzker Military Museum & Library have launched a new initiative ahead of next year’s centennial commemorations to restore old World War I monuments.

August 15, 2016 CN Editorial Team

‘Light in the Darkest Hour’ – Somme Centenary tribute at Shorncliffe

Hundreds of lanterns have been lit on First World War soldiers’ graves at Shorncliffe Military Cemetery in the UK as part of commemorations marking the 141 days of the Battle of the Somme.

August 17, 2016 CN Editorial Team

Zeppelin crash centenary to be marked in UK village

The forced-landing of a German Zeppelin near the village of Little Wigorough in eastern England 100 years ago will be marked with a programme of events in September 2016.

August 21, 2016 CN Editorial Team

Surviving HMS Falmouth naval boat to be restored at Portsmouth

A ship’s boat from the British cruiser HMS Falmouth, torpedoed in the North Sea in August 1916, has arrived at Portsmouth Historic Dockyard for restoration.