News – Page 182 – First World War Centenary News Archive

September 4, 2018 CN Editorial Team

CWGC tribute to lives lost in the final ‘Hundred Days’ of WW1

The Commonwealth War Graves Commission is sharing 120 personal stories of men and women who died in the last three months of the First World War, from the Battle of Amiens to the Armistice.

September 5, 2018 CN Editorial Team

Chelmsford’s leaf ‘Tommy’ in Centenary vigil

This foliage sculpture of a soldier stands in Chelmsford, Essex. Created by the city council for the final WW1 Centenary year, Tommy’s vigil will continue until claimed by approaching winter frosts. (Photo: Centenary News)

September 8, 2018 CN Editorial Team

Poppy sculpture ‘Wave’ in Centenary finale at IWM North

Wave, one of the touring Tower of London poppy sculptures, is going on display at Imperial War Museums’ waterfront site in Manchester, its final stop of the First World War Centenary.

September 11, 2018 CN Editorial Team

‘Diggers & Doughboys’ – special exhibition at US National WWI Museum

A century of military ties between Australia and America, beginning on the Western Front in 1918, is explored through art in a new exhibition opening at the US National WWI Museum & Memorial, Kansas City.

September 14, 2018 CN Editorial Team

100 Years Ago – Last Push against Bulgaria from Salonika

Allied troops started their final advance on the Macedonian Front on 15 September 1918, knocking Bulgaria out of the First World War two weeks later.

September 15, 2018 CN Editorial Team

Call for Papers -The First World War: Past, Present, Future

The First World War Network of early career and postgraduate researchers is seeking papers for a conference in Edinburgh in June 2019 embracing multiple aspects of WW1.

September 16, 2018 CN Editorial Team

New Zealand events marking Le Quesnoy Centenary

New Zealand announces more details of events taking place in France on November 4 to mark the centenary of its last major First World War action – the liberation of Le Quesnoy.

September 17, 2018 CN Editorial Team

Project launches to trace WW1 Belgian refugees

Researchers are trying to discover more about the stories of 250,000 refugees who came to Britain from Belgium after Germany invaded in August 1914.

September 20, 2018 CN Editorial Team

Latest Armistice Centenary exhibitions open at IWM

Four exhibitions have opened at the Imperial War Museum in London as part of Making a New World – IWM’s season of events for the close of the First World War Centenary.

September 21, 2018 CN Editorial Team

‘Battle of the Ancre’ film in Bristol for Armistice Centenary

The official film of the British Army’s autumn campaign on the Somme in 1916 will be screened in Bristol, with live music, as part of an Armistice Centenary tour in November.