News – Page 46 – First World War Centenary News Archive

September 17, 2013 CN Editorial Team

‘Fields of Battle 1914-1918, Lands of Peace 2014-2018’ street gallery exhibition

Fields of Battle 1914-1918, Lands of Peace 2014-2018, has developed a touring street gallery exhibition “based not on the horrors of war, but on how over time, nature has healed the battlefields”.

September 18, 2013 CN Editorial Team

New Zealand announces First World War Centenary military commemoration dates

The Government of New Zealand has announced the dates of domestic and overseas commemorative and ceremonial events during the Centenary.

September 19, 2013 CN Editorial Team

Restoration of Scottish Highland First World War memorials may not be complete in time for Centenary

Highland News reports that a local authority in Scotland – the Highland Council – may reverse plans for First World War memorials to be restored in time for the Centenary of the outbreak of the conflict.

September 19, 2013 CN Editorial Team

Welsh First Minister announces support for new First World War memorial in Belgium

The First Minister of Wales, Carwyn Jones, announced Welsh Government financial support for a new memorial in Belgium to remember the Welsh who served during the First World War.

September 20, 2013 CN Editorial Team

Scottish Highland war memorials will not be restored in time for 2014, but communities will be “consulted”

The Highland Council in Scotland announces that plans to restore First World War memorials in the local authority in time for the Centenary of the outbreak of the First World War will no longer go ahead.

September 21, 2013 CN Editorial Team

Russian President to inaugurate monument in France dedicated to First World War soldiers

France Bleu reports that the Russian President, Vladimir Putin, will visit northern Rheims in France in 2014 to inaugurate a memorial dedicated to the First World War Russian Expeditionary Force.

September 23, 2013 CN Editorial Team

Great War in East Africa Association conference, November 2013

The second Great War in East Africa Association conference will take place at the National Archives, Kew, London on the 9th November 2013.

September 23, 2013 CN Editorial Team

Football and Peace project receives Heritage Lottery Fund support

The National Children’s Football Alliance has been awarded a £32,500 grant, which will help fund a research project in Kent exploring the relationship between sport and the First World War.

September 24, 2013 CN Editorial Team

Western Front Association Durham conference: Britain, Germany and the First World War

The Durham branch of the Western Front Association, in partnership with Beamish Museum and the Durham Light Infantry Museum, is organising a conference about the First World War.

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September 25, 2013 CN Editorial Team

HM Gretna Munitions Factory Centenary project receives funding support and seeks help for research material nationally

The HM Gretna Munitions Factory, re-lived 100 years on project will focus on the role of the munitions factory and its workers during the First World War.