News – Page 176 – First World War Centenary News Archive

March 16, 2018 CN Editorial Team

Update on Zeebrugge Raid conference at Royal Navy Museum

The National Museum of the Royal Navy announces more details of its April conference marking the centenary of Britain’s attempt to block German U-boat bases in Flanders.

March 20, 2018 CN Editorial Team

Zeebrugge Centenary – ‘Battle for the North Sea’ exhibition coming up in Bruges

The crucial struggle waged between the British navy and the Flanders-based German submarine fleet during the First World War is explored in a new exhibition, opening in Bruges on April 21.

March 21, 2018 CN Editorial Team

100 Years Ago: German Spring Offensive launched

German forces began a thrust across Northern France on 21 March 1918, initially threatening to overwhelm the Allies.

March 25, 2018 CN Editorial Team

Doullens on parade for Foch Centenary

Centenary News watches commemorations in the Somme town where Allied leaders took the historic decision to appoint Marshal Foch supreme commander on 26 March 1918.

March 26, 2018 CN Editorial Team

Centenary salutes to the leadership of Marshal Foch

Ceremonies have been held in both the UK and France to mark the centenary of Ferdinand Foch’s appointment as Allied Supreme Commander on 26 March 1918, at a critical moment in the Great War.

March 28, 2018 CN Editorial Team

‘Side by Side’ – America’s WWI war effort remembered in Britain

Patrick Gregory reports on the opening of a new exhibition at the American Museum in Britain commemorating US involvement in the First World War.

April 1, 2018 CN Editorial Team

100 Years Ago: Royal Air Force founded

The world’s first independent air force was created on 1 April 1918, with the merger of Britain’s Royal Flying Corps and Royal Naval Air Service into the RAF.