News – Page 157 – First World War Centenary News Archive

October 23, 2016 CN Editorial Team

Mission Centenaire seeks WW1 Centenary projects for 2017

French Centenary organisation Mission Centenaire has outlined major anniversary themes for 2017 as it invites next year’s WW1 projects to apply for endorsement.

October 24, 2016 CN Editorial Team

Verdun, 100 years ago – France recaptures Fort Douaumont

French colonial troops entered Fort Douaumont on 24 October 1916, ending an eight-month German occupation of the biggest of the Verdun fortresses.

October 28, 2016 CN Editorial Team

Centenary of Australian WW1 conscription vote

Australians rejected a move to introduce compulsory military service overseas in a referendum, or plebiscite, held on 28 October 1916.

November 3, 2016 CN Editorial Team

‘World War I and American Art’ – Centennial exhibition launching in Philadelphia

The first major exhibition devoted to exploring how American artists reacted to the First World War opens this week at the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts Philadelphia.

November 4, 2016 CN Editorial Team

Lens’ 14-18 Museum hosts November 2016 Armistice commemorations

A weekend of Armistice commemorations at the Lens’14-18 Museum will include a torchlight ceremony at the new ‘Ring of Remembrance’ memorial overlooking the former battlefields of Artois.

November 6, 2016 CN Editorial Team

‘Wacht Im Osten’ – US WW1 museum explores German experiences of the Eastern Front

A new exhibition at the National World War I Museum, Kansas City, is a timely reminder of the often overlooked Eastern Front in the First World War, writes Patrick Gregory.

November 8, 2016 CN Editorial Team

Update on ‘Far From the Western Front’ – exhibition focussing on South Asia’s soldiers

Centenary News visits a London exhibition highlighting the First World War contribution of the men who served in the colonial Indian Army and their families.

November 11, 2016 CN Editorial Team

Armistice Day 2016: Remembering the Somme, Verdun and Jutland

Armistice Day ceremonies have been taking place around the world on 11 November 2016, the 98th anniversary of the ceasefire that ended the First World War.

November 12, 2016 CN Editorial Team

Armistice Day 2016: France remembers in the UK

The Centenaries of the Battles of Verdun and the Somme were marked at this year’s Armistice Day commemorations held by the French Embassy in London.

November 14, 2016 CN Editorial Team

Poppies & Poems screened onto Big Ben for Remembrance Sunday

Falling poppies, coupled with war poems, were projected onto Big Ben in the latest of the UK Parliament’s WW1 Centenary tributes on Remembrance Sunday.