News – Page 180 – First World War Centenary News Archive

July 13, 2018 CN Editorial Team

100 Years Ago: Revolutionaries kill Russian royal family

Nicholas II – last Tsar of Russia and the first of Europe’s imperial rulers toppled in WW1 – was killed, together with his family, by Bolshevik revolutionaries on 17 July 1918.

July 17, 2018 CN Editorial Team

Armistice Centenary – Paris to host Peace Forum

France is convening an international forum in Paris on November 11 to promote peace, 100 years after the guns fell silent in the First World War.

July 22, 2018 CN Editorial Team

100 days remembering Wilfred Owen in Shropshire

Wide-ranging commemorations for the life and work of the British First World War poet and soldier Wilfred Owen have been announced in the county of his birth.

July 23, 2018 CN Editorial Team

CWGC staff return to Iraq after 12 years

Commonwealth War Graves Commission staff have made their first working visit to Iraq since 2006 to inspect CWGC memorials and cemeteries around Basra.

July 25, 2018 CN Editorial Team

Turn of the tide on the Marne – July 1918

Battles in northeastern France 100 years ago signalled a crucial shift in the First World War, as the Allies gained the advantage over the Germans.

July 26, 2018 CN Editorial Team

‘Making a New World’ – IWM opens final WW1 Centenary programme

A season of events exploring ‘how the First World War has shaped today’s society’ is starting at Imperial War Museums with Lest We Forget? – an exhibition at IWM North, Manchester.

July 27, 2018 CN Editorial Team

New film remembers ‘forgotten’ Salonika campaign

A newly-released short film focusses on the First World War campaign in the Balkans which drew in 600,000 Allied troops from across the globe.

July 28, 2018 CN Editorial Team

Purple Poppy appeal to commemorate WW1 horses

A million purple poppy petals have fallen from the skies of the UK, at an event launching a new appeal in memory of horses, donkeys and mules lost in the Great War.

August 1, 2018 CN Editorial Team

‘Storming the Skies’ – The First World War in Italy in photos

Centenary News toured an exhibition of photographs at the Army & Navy Club in London offering a rare glimpse, for UK eyes, of the First World War campaigns on the Italian Front.

August 8, 2018 CN Editorial Team

100 years ago – Battle of Amiens & start of the ‘Hundred Days’

The first in a series of Allied offensives which culminated in the First World War Armistice was launched against German positions near the French city of Amiens on 8 August 1918.