News – Page 98 – First World War Centenary News Archive

September 17, 2014 CN Editorial Team

The Great War as recorded in the arts: an exhibition at London’s Morley Gallery

The Great War, as seen through both the fine and popular arts, is the theme of a Centenary exhibition which runs at the Morley Gallery in London until October 2nd 2014.

End Date: 02 Oct 2014

September 17, 2014 CN Editorial Team

Centenary update: remembering the Battle of the Aisne

Paul Kendall reports for Centenary News on events in France marking the 100th anniversary of the Battle of the Aisne, where trench warfare started in September 1914.

September 18, 2014 CN Editorial Team

London ‘Battle Bus’ leaves for Centenary Western Front tour

London Transport Museum’s restored First World War bus has set off on a tour of the former battlefields of Flanders and France.

September 19, 2014 CN Editorial Team

Preserving the Past – the East Belfast & The Great War Project

East Belfast & The Great War, a First World War commemoration project, has just announced the first date in a series of ‘Military Antiques Roadshows’.

September 22, 2014 CN Editorial Team

Australian War Memorial’s ‘Menin Gate Lions’ go on loan for Centenary

A pair of stone lions from the Australian War Memorial in Canberra will be lent to Canada for a First World War Centenary exhibition.

September 22, 2014 CN Editorial Team

100 Years Ago Today: German Navy attacks targets worldwide

Today (September 22nd 2014) marks the 100th anniversary of attacks by German warships in the Bay of Bengal, the Pacific Ocean and the North Sea.

September 23, 2014 CN Editorial Team

Retired teacher from Leicester starts blog featuring her grandfather’s Western Front diary

Angela Walker, a retired teacher from Leicester in the UK, has started a blog featuring the daily entries of a diary kept by her grandfather – who was posted to France between 1914 and 1916 with the Royal Army Medical Corps.

September 23, 2014 CN Editorial Team

Centenary update: London ‘Battle Bus’ at the Last Post in Ypres

London Transport Museum’s 1914 ‘Battle Bus’ took part in the Last Post ceremony at the Menin Gate, Ypres, on September 20th 2014 as part of its Centenary tour.

September 24, 2014 CN Editorial Team

‘Screaming Steel’ – Exhibition in UK city of Newcastle captures horrors of the War

An exhibition examining artistic and literary responses to the horrors suffered by First World War soldiers can be seen at the Hatton Gallery, Newcastle upon Tyne, until December 13th 2014.

End Date: 13 Dec 2014

September 25, 2014 CN Editorial Team

War Graves Commission founder Fabian Ware remembered with Blue Plaque

Sir Fabian Ware, founder of the Imperial War Graves Commission, has been honoured today (September 25th 2014) with the unveiling of an English Heritage blue plaque at his former London home.