News – Page 54 – First World War Centenary News Archive

November 12, 2013 CN Editorial Team

Poland celebrates its Independence Day as President appeals for “tribute to independence fighters”

Poland marked the 95th anniversary of its independence on the 11th November 2013.

November 13, 2013 CN Editorial Team

English Heritage announces First World War commemoration projects

English Heritage has announced its plans to mark the Centenary of the First World War with projects and the granting of ‘listed’ status to more memorials.

November 13, 2013 CN Editorial Team

Prince Philip oversees soil collection from Belgium for London Remembrance Garden

Prince Philip attended an Armistice Day service at the Menin Gate, Ypres, Belgium, where he oversaw the gathering of soil for a Flanders Fields memorial garden at the Guards Museum in London.

November 13, 2013 CN Editorial Team

Two US organisations’ education programme hailed as “America’s first proactive step into the Centennial”

Student News Net and Survivor Quest announce that they will collaborate in order to educate “every student in America” through multimedia about the First World War as the Centennial approaches.

November 13, 2013 CN Editorial Team

The National Archives launches new First World War programme for Centenary

The National Archives at Kew has launched a new programme to mark the Centenary of the First World War.

November 14, 2013 CN Editorial Team

State Library of New South Wales will “tell our stories and listen to your stories” with Centenary diary project

The State Library of New South Wales, Australia, will take its collection of First World War diaries on tour, and help people to see if the Library holds one of their ancestor’s diaries.

November 15, 2013 CN Editorial Team

Australia and New Zealand open Anzac Centenary ticket ballot

Australia and New Zealand have opened the ticketing ballot process for those wishing to attend Centenary commemorations at Gallipoli in Turkey in 2015.

November 16, 2013 CN Editorial Team

Exhibition marks centenary of Archduke Franz Ferdinand’s visit to Nottinghamshire

Archduke Franz Ferdinand’s name is forever linked with the Bosnian capital, Sarajevo, but until now it’s been almost totally forgotten that he came to England just months before his assassination.

November 17, 2013 CN Editorial Team

National Archives of France debate: ‘Two anniversaries in 2014: The Great War and the year 1944’

The National Archives of France will hold a debate focusing on the two anniversaries facing France in 2014: the Centenary of the First World War and the liberation of France in 1944.

November 18, 2013 CN Editorial Team

‘Heaven in a Hell of War’ masterpieces by British war artist, Sir Stanley Spencer, on show in London

Paintings by British war artist, Sir Stanley Spencer, are being displayed at a special exhibition in London to commemorate the 100th anniversary of the outbreak of the First World War.