News – Page 173 – First World War Centenary News Archive

December 27, 2017 CN Editorial Team

Review of WW1 Centenary year 2017

Centenary News looks back at some of many events in 2017 commemorating the 100th anniversary of the First World War.

December 29, 2017 CN Editorial Team

‘Making a New World’ – 2018 Centenary events coming up at IWM

As well as displaying the Tower of London Poppies, Imperial War Museums announce they will also hold a programme of special events in 2018 to close their First World War Centenary commemorations.

December 30, 2017 CN Editorial Team

Final Tower Poppies tour venues named

Six cities are to host the Tower of London Poppies in 2018, the last year of their UK tour marking the First World War Centenary.

December 31, 2017 CN Editorial Team

2018 Events – ‘Shrouds of the Somme’ in Armistice Centenary tribute

British artist Rob Heard is individually stitching more than 72,000 shrouded figures to mark the 100th anniversary of the Armistice ending the First World War.

January 1, 2018 CN Editorial Team

Armistice Day at the Cenotaph, London

With the Armistice Centenary on November 11 coinciding with Britain’s Remembrance Sunday, the traditional ceremony at the Cenotaph will conclude with an expanded march-past.

January 1, 2018 CN Editorial Team

France names 2018 ‘Year Clemenceau’ for close of WW1 Centenary

Themes for France’s final year of Great War Centenary commemorations include a focus on Prime Minister Georges Clemenceau, remembered as the ‘Father of Victory’.

January 2, 2018 CN Editorial Team

Focus on Armistice Centenary – Mons 2018

Two days of commemorations are planned in Mons on November 10 & 11 to mark the centenary of the Belgian city’s liberation at the very end of the First World War.

January 4, 2018 CN Editorial Team

Centenary News countdown to First World War anniversaries in 2018

A Centenary News summary of major anniversaries that shaped 1918, the final year of the First World War – and news of some of the 2018 event programmes announced so far.

January 15, 2018 CN Editorial Team

Urgent appeal to find British WW1 soldier’s family

British military officials trying to identify a First World War soldier’s remains want to trace the family of Edward Norton, a Durham Light Infantry sergeant killed in France in September 1918.

January 17, 2018 CN Editorial Team

Mission Centenaire backs more than 1,200 projects for 2018

The number of projects endorsed for the final year of WW1 commemorations by France’s lead Centenary organisation is close to that of 2014, with more still pending.