News – Page 177 – First World War Centenary News Archive

April 9, 2018 CN Editorial Team

French & Portuguese leaders mark Battle of the Lys Centenary

President Macron and his Portuguese counterpart, Marcelo Rebelo de Sousa, led tributes at Richebourg today (9 April 2018) to Portuguese soldiers who fell on the Western Front.

April 11, 2018 CN Editorial Team

100 Years Ago – Field Marshal Haig calls for ‘Backs to the Wall’ fight to the last

‘There is no other course open to us but to fight it out,’ British commander Sir Douglas Haig ordered on 11 April 1918, rallying his troops against fresh German advances threatening the Channel ports.

April 12, 2018 CN Editorial Team

Final ‘100 Cities/100 Memorials’ US Centennial awards announced

Fifty more memorials in US cities commemorating America’s Great War dead have been officially designated, and awarded grants, as national ‘WW1 Centennial Memorials’.

April 21, 2018 CN Editorial Team

Death of the Red Baron – 21 April 1918

Captain Manfred von Richtofen, leading ace of the German Air Service during the First World War, was killed on this day 100 years ago by enemy fire near Amiens.

April 21, 2018 CN Editorial Team

100 Years Ago – The Royal Navy raids on Zeebrugge & Ostend

As cross-channel commemorations get under way, Centenary News reports from the Flanders coast on Britain’s daring attempt to cut off German submarine bases at a critical moment in the First World War.

April 23, 2018 CN Editorial Team

Zeebrugge honours fallen of 1918 naval raids

Centenary News watched Zeebrugge’s commemorations marking the 100th anniversary of the British naval attacks targeting German First World War U-boat operations in Flanders.

April 24, 2018 CN Editorial Team

Dover salutes courage of the Zeebrugge Raid

Centenary News rounds off coverage of the 2018 Zeebrugge Raid Centenary events with a report from Dover’s commemorations marking the 100th anniversary of the strikes against German U-boat bases.

April 24, 2018 CN Editorial Team

Blankenberge’s tribute to George Nicholson Bradford VC

The family of Lt Cdr George Bradford – one of the only pair of brothers both to receive the Victoria Cross in WW1 – have expressed their ‘heartfelt thanks’ for a new memorial to him in Flanders marking the Zeebrugge Raid Centenary.

April 25, 2018 CN Editorial Team

Australia’s new Sir John Monash Centre at Villers-Bretonneux

Australia has opened a new multi-media visitor centre in France, commemorating Australian forces on the Western Front at the scene of some of their most successful WW1 actions.

April 25, 2018 CN Editorial Team

‘Battle for the North Sea’ exhibition in Flanders unites 11 Victoria Crosses

Centenary News tours a new exhibition in Bruges, bringing together all the Zeebrugge Raid Victoria Crosses – and highlighting both sides of the WW1 struggle between Flanders -based German submarines and Britain’s Royal Navy.