Battlefields – Page 22 – First World War Centenary News Archive

July 26, 2016 CN Editorial Team

Three unknown soldiers buried as Australia marks Pozières Centenary

Australia has remembered its first action on the Somme with commemorations on July 23rd marking the Battle of Pozières in the summer of 1916.

August 1, 2016 CN Editorial Team

Battle of Chemin des Dames Centenary 2017 – Aisne call for projects

Centenary News looks ahead to a significant French anniversary, as the Aisne region prepares for commemorations marking the Battle of the Chemin des Dames, also known as the Nivelle Offensive and the Second Battle of the Aisne.

August 27, 2016 CN Editorial Team

100 Years Ago Today: Romania enters First World War

Romanian troops attacked Transylvania on August 27th 1916, opening a new front against Austria-Hungary in the Balkans.

September 7, 2016 CN Editorial Team

Somme Centenary – New Zealand remembers at Longueval Sept 15

Prince Charles is to join New Zealanders in France next week for commemorations honouring those who fought at the Battle of the Somme a century ago.

September 14, 2016 CN Editorial Team

Families of tank pioneers mark WW1 Tank Centenary

Descendants of soldiers who took Britain’s early tanks into battle gathered in London ahead of this week’s centenary of the first ever-tank action during the Great War.

September 15, 2016 CN Editorial Team

100 Years Ago: UK Prime Minister’s son killed in action

British Prime Minister Herbert Asquith suffered a personal tragedy on 15 September 1916 when his eldest son, Raymond, was killed on the Somme.

September 16, 2016 CN Editorial Team

‘The Price of a Mile’ – exhibition honouring Somme doctors

Booking is open for the London preview of a new exhibition paying tribute to doctors who administered anaesthetics and pain relief to the wounded at the Battle of the Somme.

September 19, 2016 CN Editorial Team

Somme Centenary events in France honour New Zealand’s Fallen

New Zealand held a series of commemorations in France on 15 September 2016 to mark the centenary of the New Zealand Division joining the Battle of the Somme.

September 28, 2016 CN Editorial Team

Wreck of Jutland warship HMS Warrior found in North Sea

Marine archaeologists have discovered the last missing wreck from the Battle of Jutland, 100 years after the biggest naval clash of the First World War.

October 5, 2016 CN Editorial Team

Two unknown WW1 soldiers buried at Commonwealth cemetery in France

Two British First World War soldiers whose identities remain unknown a century after they fell have been laid to rest on the former battlefields of Loos in Northern France.