Battlefields – Page 27 – First World War Centenary News Archive

April 23, 2017 CN Editorial Team

UK & Ireland to share Messines Centenary remembrance

Britain and Ireland are to hold a joint tribute to soldiers from nationalist and unionist traditions who fought side by side at the Battle of Messines in the summer of 1917.

April 29, 2017 CN Editorial Team

Arras tunnels survey presented for 2017 Centenary

Surveyors from the University of Otago have carried out a complex study of the First World War tunnels dug beneath Arras by New Zealand troops.

May 2, 2017 CN Editorial Team

Australian Memorial Garden opens in Passchendaele

The latest commemorative garden to open at the Passchendaele Memorial Park in Belgium honours Australian soldiers of the Great War.

May 8, 2017 CN Editorial Team

Cambrai tank veteran ‘Deborah’ prepares for Centenary move

A British tank discovered under the battlefields of Cambrai is about to start its final journey to a new museum opening for the November 2017 Centenary.

May 11, 2017 CN Editorial Team

Rare Ottoman Great War carpet for Australian War Memorial

A silk carpet commemorating Turkey’s victory over Allied naval power in the Dardanelles in March 1915 has been acquired by the Australian War Memorial, Canberra.

May 21, 2017 CN Editorial Team

100 Years Ago: Commonwealth War Graves Commission founded

The Imperial War Graves Commission – later renamed the Commonwealth War Graves Commission – was created by Royal Charter on 21 May 1917 to remember the Great War dead of Britain and its Dominions in perpetuity.

June 7, 2017 CN Editorial Team

100 Years Ago: Battle of Messines

The capture of Messines Ridge by Allied forces in June 1917 was a dramatic prelude to the British-led Flanders offensive later that summer.

June 8, 2017 CN Editorial Team

Messines Centenary – New Zealand remembers

New Zealanders gathered for ceremonies in Belgium on June 7 honouring the service and sacrifice of their soldiers who fought at the Battle of Messines.

June 9, 2017 CN Editorial Team

UK & Ireland join in Messines Centenary tribute

Prince William and Irish Prime Minister Enda Kenny took part in commemorations marking the centenary of the Battle of Messines on 7 June 2017.

June 15, 2017 CN Editorial Team

CWGC given €3.9m to restore Flanders cemeteries

The Flanders Government is giving the Commonwealth War Graves Commission more than €3.9 million towards restoration projects at 24 cemeteries in the Ieper (Ypres) area.