Australia – Page 7 – First World War Centenary News Archive

May 20, 2014 CN Editorial Team

Australian Government commits $6.9 million to Western Front Interpretive Centre at Villers-Bretonneux

The Australian Government has committed $6.9 million for a Western Front Interpretive Centre at Villers-Bretonneux, in the first budget of Prime Minister Tony Abbott.

May 22, 2014 CN Editorial Team

Book of First World War newspapers will teach children about the Centenary

The UK’s largest private archive of historical newspapers is offering a free booklet of First World War newspapers to show how the conflict was reported at the time.

May 22, 2014 CN Editorial Team

Heritage chief becomes first woman to lead Commonwealth War Graves Commission

The Commonwealth War Graves Commission has appointed Victoria Wallace, Chief Executive of Leeds Castle, as its next Director General. She succeeds Alan Pateman-Jones who’s standing down in June 2014.

May 30, 2014 CN Editorial Team

Centenary News in Brief: 23rd – 30th May 2014

Centenary News in Brief this week includes: America marks its Memorial Day at cemeteries around the world; Canada announces funding to restore its Japanese Canadian War Memorial; the Help for Heroes 4×4 challenge reaches £750,000 in fundraising; and Australia commemorates the disappearance of submarine AE1.

June 6, 2014 CN Editorial Team

Australian and New Zealand radio stations launch composer competition for Gallipoli Centenary

Two radio stations – one in Australia and one in New Zealand – have launched a competition asking composers to submit original compositions to mark the Centenary of the Gallipoli landings.

June 9, 2014 CN Editorial Team

Prime Minister Tony Abbott says Australians should remember Western Front as much as Gallipoli

Australians should remember the service and sacrifice of their troops on the Western Front just as much as Gallipoli, Prime Minister Tony Abbott has said during a visit to France.

June 17, 2014 CN Editorial Team

Australia and Canada to mark First World War Centenary

Australia’s Prime Minister, Tony Abbott, has announced that his country and Canada will co-operate to mark the Centenary of the First World War.

June 20, 2014 CN Editorial Team

Centenary News in Brief: 14th – 20th June 2014

Centenary News in Brief this week includes: Watford Football Club’s new away kit marks the Centenary; the only Australian horse to return from the First World War is honoured; America’s World War One Historical Association will mark the Archduke’s assassination; and the National Memorial Arboretum in England will hold a First World War poetry evening.

July 11, 2014 CN Editorial Team

Australian ‘Sacred Soil’ project seeks to engage young people

The Sacred Soil project in Australia is proposing to send students to the battlefields of the Western Front and to Gallipoli to mark the Centenary of the First World War.

July 12, 2014 CN Editorial Team

300,000 Commonwealth war grave records put online for First World War Centenary

The Commonwealth War Graves Commission has launched new online resources to make it easier to locate and visit memorials of relatives killed in the First World War.