News – Page 25 – First World War Centenary News Archive

April 4, 2013 CN Editorial Team

Black Watch statue to be unveiled in Belgium for Centenary

The BBC reports that a statue dedicated to the 8,000 Black Watch officers and soldiers who died in the First World War will be unveiled in Belgium in 2014.

April 5, 2013 CN Editorial Team

Signed Arthur Conan Doyle poem, ‘Ypres September 1915’, to be auctioned

Bonhams Fine Art Auctioneers & Valuers is to auction a revised manuscript of Doyle’s wartime poem, ‘Ypres September 1915’.

April 5, 2013 CN Editorial Team

China’s ambassador to France honours First World War Chinese workers

China’s ambassador to France, Mr. Kong Quan, honours Chinese workers who died during the First World War in a service held at a French cemetery.

April 9, 2013 CN Editorial Team

City of Sydney requests designs for Indigenous war memorial for Anzac Day 2015

The City of Sydney has called for designs for a new monument dedicated to Aboriginal and Strait Islander service men and women, to be unveiled on Anzac Day 2015.

April 10, 2013 CN Editorial Team

National Archives of Finland and Russian Historical Society agree to further co-operation

A “memorandum of cooperation” between the National Archives of Finland and the Russian Historical Society could see research projects for the Centenary of the First World War.

April 11, 2013 CN Editorial Team

France and Germany to fund Centenary events in Sarajevo

The French Embassy in Bosnia and Herzegovina has announced that a programme of events to mark the Centenary of the First World War in Sarajevo has been submitted.

April 13, 2013 CN Editorial Team

How interested are New Zealanders in the First World War?

New Zealand’s official Centenary programme, New Zealand WW100, has conducted a “benchmark survey” to gauge the interest of New Zealanders in the First World War and its Centenary.

April 14, 2013 CN Editorial Team

National Archives completes digitisation of First World War unit diaries

The National Archives at Kew, England, has completed the digitisation of First World War unit diaries, which are to be made available “before the centenary period begins”.

April 14, 2013 CN Editorial Team

First World War “historical treasure chest” found in Dundee, Scotland, to be opened for Centenary

The Courier reports a woman in Dundee researching her family history has located a “historical treasure chest” from the First World War, which be opened in 2014 as part of Centenary commemorations.

April 14, 2013 CN Editorial Team

Swiss Federal Archives and Wikimedia to make available thousands of First World War digital photographs

The Federal Archives of Switzerland and Wikimedia will collaborate to make thousands of digital photographs from the First World War available to the public in time for the Centenary.