News – Page 62 – First World War Centenary News Archive

January 10, 2014 CN Editorial Team

UK Culture Minister is criticised in Anzac Centenary row

The Daily Mail has reported that a “senior Whitehall official” has criticised the UK Culture Secretary as concerns were raised that Britain was going to “downplay” Australia’s role in the First World War.

January 10, 2014 CN Editorial Team

UK states suggestion of Anzac “whitewash” during the Centenary is “completely wrong”

The UK has stated that any suggestions it will favour commemorating the “New Commonwealth” contribution during the First World War over Australia are “completely wrong”.

January 11, 2014 CN Editorial Team

Digital records of Ireland’s First World War dead launched in Dublin

The records of Irish soldiers who died during the First World War have been digitised following collaboration between Google and the In Flanders Fields Museum.

January 13, 2014 CN Editorial Team

Thousands call for nurse Edith Cavell to be commemorated on UK Centenary coin

Thousands of people have signed a petition calling for the nurse, Edith Cavell, to be remembered on a £2 coin being minted in the UK to mark the Centenary.

January 13, 2014 CN Editorial Team

Major international conference: ‘The Position of the First World War in the History of Europe’, Sarajevo, 2014

A major international conference about the First World War will see 120 scholars from 28 countries meet in Sarajevo in 2014.

January 14, 2014 CN Editorial Team

First World War unit diaries go online to mark Centenary

The UK National Archives has digitised thousands of First World War unit diaries, which are now available to view online.

January 15, 2014 CN Editorial Team

NZ On Air awards contract for live TV coverage of Chunuk Bair service for Gallipoli Centenary

NZ On Air has awarded Maori Television a contract for the live television coverage of the Anzac Day 2015 commemorative service at Chunuk Bair in Turkey.

January 16, 2014 CN Editorial Team

Serbia claims letter from 1913 absolves it of blame for the outbreak of the First World War

The Director of the National Archive of Serbia, Dr. Miroslav Perisic, has unveiled a copy of a document from 1913 which he claims absolves Serbia of any “guilt” for outbreak of the First World War.

January 16, 2014 CN Editorial Team

‘Archduke Franz Ferdinand relative: don’t blame us for First World War’

Karl Habsburg-Lothringen, the grandson of the last emperor of Austria-Hungary, Karl I, has said there is no need for his family to show remorse for the First World War.

January 17, 2014 CN Editorial Team

Austrian press criticises Serbian presentation of 1913 document

The Austrian press has been critical of the presentation of a document by the National Archive of Serbia, which Serbia claims absolves it of any “guilt” in starting the First World War.