News – Page 165 – First World War Centenary News Archive

April 19, 2017 CN Editorial Team

100 Years Ago: The Chinese Labour Corps arrives

Chinese workers recruited to support Britain’s war effort on the Western Front started arriving in France on 19 April 1917.

April 20, 2017 CN Editorial Team

Centenary project to honour the Chinese Labour Corps

A new project in the UK aims to raise awareness of the 96,000 Chinese workers who supported British forces during the Great War.

April 23, 2017 CN Editorial Team

UK & Ireland to share Messines Centenary remembrance

Britain and Ireland are to hold a joint tribute to soldiers from nationalist and unionist traditions who fought side by side at the Battle of Messines in the summer of 1917.

April 26, 2017 CN Editorial Team

Menin Gate Lions back on guard in Ypres

Two stone lions, passed by soldiers on their way to the battlefields of Ypres, have returned to Belgium in readiness for this year’s extensive WW1 Centenary programme in Flanders.

April 29, 2017 CN Editorial Team

Arras tunnels survey presented for 2017 Centenary

Surveyors from the University of Otago have carried out a complex study of the First World War tunnels dug beneath Arras by New Zealand troops.

April 29, 2017 CN Editorial Team

CWGC Centenary – Ballot for Westminster Abbey service

The Commonwealth War Graves Commission has announced a public ballot for a limited number of tickets to attend its Centenary thanksgiving service at Westminster Abbey, London, on 23 May 2017.

May 2, 2017 CN Editorial Team

Australian Memorial Garden opens in Passchendaele

The latest commemorative garden to open at the Passchendaele Memorial Park in Belgium honours Australian soldiers of the Great War.

May 3, 2017 CN Editorial Team

‘Away from the Western Front’ launches Centenary projects

Centenary News reports from the opening of ‘Away from the Western Front’, a new venture to raise awareness of WW1 campaigns in Africa, the Balkans and the Middle East.

May 6, 2017 CN Editorial Team

Centenary tribute to mine-sweeping trawler crew

A ceremony has been held on England’s south coast to commemorate 10 crewmen of the trawler HMT Arfon, lost on mine-sweeping duties in April 1917.

May 8, 2017 CN Editorial Team

Cambrai tank veteran ‘Deborah’ prepares for Centenary move

A British tank discovered under the battlefields of Cambrai is about to start its final journey to a new museum opening for the November 2017 Centenary.