News – Page 183 – First World War Centenary News Archive

September 23, 2018 CN Editorial Team

Armistice Centenary – Update on French events

President Macron will meet the German Chancellor, Angela Merkel, at Compiègne – and also tour regions of France devastated by the First World War as part of nationwide events marking the Armistice Centenary.

September 23, 2018 CN Editorial Team

Armistice Centenary – Australian War Memorial events in Canberra

A display of 62,000 poppies, representing Australia’s fallen in WW1, and a beam of light are among events announced by the Australian War Memorial in Canberra to commemorate the centenary of the Armistice.

September 26, 2018 CN Editorial Team

100 Years Ago – ‘Tout Le Monde à La Bataille’, Allies strike across Western Front

In the dying days of September 1918, an Allied onslaught in Northern France and Flanders, coupled with defeats for the Central Powers on other fronts, forced German overtures for an armistice.

September 26, 2018 CN Editorial Team

The Meuse-Argonne: Remembering America’s biggest battle

Patrick Gregory reports from US commemorations in France, marking the Centennial of the battle that opened the last Allied campaigns on the Western Front.

September 30, 2018 CN Editorial Team

100 Years Ago – Bulgaria exits the First World War

The Central Powers were left exposed in the Balkans, after Bulgaria dropped out of WW1 under an armistice which came into effect on 30 September 1918.

October 5, 2018 CN Editorial Team

‘Weeping Window’ poppy display opens at IWM London

The final presentation of the Tower of London WW1 Centenary poppies tour is under way at the Imperial War Museum.

October 6, 2018 CN Editorial Team

Islay marks centenary of HMS Otranto tragedy

The loss of a First World War troopship carrying American soldiers to Europe in October 1918 has been remembered on the Hebridean island of Islay.

October 9, 2018 CN Editorial Team

‘Great War Symphony’ receives world premiere

‘The Great War Symphony’ – a new choral work written for the close of the WW1 Centenary by British composer Patrick Hawes – is being given its world première at the Royal Albert Hall, London, tonight (October 9).

October 10, 2018 CN Editorial Team

Scuttle of the German fleet in Scapa Flow – November conference in Orkney

International historians will discuss the impact and legacy of the sinking of Germany’s First World War surface fleet, at a conference in Orkney in November 2018.

October 14, 2018 CN Editorial Team

‘Shaping Our Sorrow’ – CWGC archive display launches for Armistice Centenary

More than 600 documents and photos from the Commonwealth War Graves Commission’s extensive archives have been released online for the end of the First World War Centenary.