News – Page 154 – First World War Centenary News Archive

August 22, 2016 CN Editorial Team

British WW1 warship HMS Falmouth ‘recreated’ on centenary of sinking

A Royal Navy cruiser torpedoed in August 1916 has been visualised as a 3D model in her last resting place beneath the waters of the North Sea.

August 23, 2016 CN Editorial Team

‘Cultural Exchange in a Time of Global Conflict’ – Call for community-led projects

Researchers based at King’s College London are offering an opportunity to showcase community-led projects focussing on the colonial or dominion contribution to the First World War.

August 25, 2016 CN Editorial Team

‘Understanding the Great War’ – education resource launched in US

The United States WWI Centennial Commission and America’s National World War I Museum & Memorial have teamed up to create a new online teaching resource aimed at increasing awareness of the Great War.

August 27, 2016 CN Editorial Team

100 Years Ago Today: Romania enters First World War

Romanian troops attacked Transylvania on August 27th 1916, opening a new front against Austria-Hungary in the Balkans.

August 29, 2016 CN Editorial Team

100 Years Ago: Hindenburg & Ludendorff take over in German high command reshuffle

Field Marshal Hindenburg and General Ludendorff took over command of the German Army on August 29th 1916, dominating Germany’s military leadership for the rest of the First World War.

September 3, 2016 CN Editorial Team

100 Years Ago Today: First German airship shot down over UK

William Leefe Robinson became the first British pilot to shoot down a German airship over England in the early hours of September 3rd 1916.

September 5, 2016 CN Editorial Team

WW1 minesweeping trawler wreck protected

The ‘exceptionally well-preserved’ wreck of a trawler fitted out by the British Navy as a minesweeper during the First World War has been given special protection by the UK Government.

September 7, 2016 CN Editorial Team

Somme Centenary – New Zealand remembers at Longueval Sept 15

Prince Charles is to join New Zealanders in France next week for commemorations honouring those who fought at the Battle of the Somme a century ago.

September 8, 2016 CN Editorial Team

‘Conscientious objection & dissent’ – New Zealand First World War study

Comprehensive lists of New Zealanders who opposed conscription in the Great War have been compiled for the first time, New Zealand Government historians have announced.

September 9, 2016 CN Editorial Team

‘North Carolina & World War I’ – US Centennial exhibition in 2017

A multimedia exhibition marking the centennial of America’s entry into the First World War opens at the North Carolina Museum of History, Raleigh, in April next year.