News – Page 156 – First World War Centenary News Archive

October 4, 2016 CN Editorial Team

US Centennial Commission signs partnership deal with Belgium

America’s WWI Centennial Commission and the Belgian Federal Government have signed an agreement to ‘share experience, knowledge and technical means’ ahead of commemorations marking the 100th anniversary of US entry into the First World War.

October 5, 2016 CN Editorial Team

Two unknown WW1 soldiers buried at Commonwealth cemetery in France

Two British First World War soldiers whose identities remain unknown a century after they fell have been laid to rest on the former battlefields of Loos in Northern France.

October 6, 2016 CN Editorial Team

CWGC highlights ‘forgotten’ Salonika Front

A remembrance service has been hosted by the Commonwealth War Graves Commission in Greece as part of a joint effort with the British Embassy in Athens to raise awareness of those lost in the Salonika campaign.

October 6, 2016 CN Editorial Team

November exhibition focuses on New Zealand brothers’ WW1 naval sketches

Rare drawings of the First World War at sea by brothers Esmond and Hal Atkinson will be displayed at an exhibition in Petone, New Zealand, from 3-23 November 2016.

October 7, 2016 CN Editorial Team

Tower of London Poppies – 2017 UK display dates

Six venues have been chosen to host the next displays of the touring poppy installations, Wave and Weeping Window, the UK’s First World War Centenary arts programme, 14-18 NOW, has announced.

October 13, 2016 CN Editorial Team

CWGC launches Somme battlefield guide

Centenary News reports from an event at the Canadian High Commission in London, marking publication of the Commonwealth War Graves Commission’s Somme Battlefield Companion.

October 14, 2016 CN Editorial Team

‘Far From the Western Front’ – Exhibition focussing on South Asian soldiers in WW1

An exhibition highlighting the First World War service of more than 1.5 million South Asian soldiers opens at the Royal Geographical Society, London, on 5 November 2016.

October 15, 2016 CN Editorial Team

Leicester University remembers fallen soldier commemorated with its founding

Archive material has uncovered one of the stories that inspired Leicester University’s foundation as a ‘living memorial’ to the dead of the First World War.

October 20, 2016 CN Editorial Team

Munitions site protected in tribute to women killed in WW1 blast

The UK Government has protected the site of a First World War munitions factory in Leeds where 35 women were killed in an explosion in December 1916.

October 22, 2016 CN Editorial Team

Canadian War Museum acquires ship’s wheel from Halifax blast survivor HMCS Niobe

One of the few surviving artefacts from an historic Canadian warship caught up in a First World War disaster is joining the Canadian War Museum’s collections in Ottawa.