Battlefields – Page 29 – First World War Centenary News Archive

August 3, 2017 CN Editorial Team

Centenary visit to France honours Edward Foster VC

Evelyn McDermott joined a delegation from Wandsworth honouring a south London soldier awarded the Victoria Cross in 1917, forging post-WW1 ties with Villers Plouich, near Cambrai.

August 4, 2017 CN Editorial Team

Surviving Battle of Cambrai tank moves to new home

‘Deborah’, the British tank unearthed in France 19 years ago, has arrived at a new museum opening in November 2017 for the Battle of Cambrai Centenary.

August 29, 2017 CN Editorial Team

German U-boat wreck protected in the North Sea

The wreck of a German mine-laying submarine sunk in the closing stages of the First World War has been protected on the advice of Historic England.

September 4, 2017 CN Editorial Team

Call for Papers: ‘1914-1918-online’ encyclopaedia

Academics are invited to contribute articles to ‘1914-1918-online’, an international English-language reference work covering the First World War.

September 8, 2017 CN Editorial Team

Tyne Cot soldiers’ names to be lit in Passchendaele Centenary tribute

Organisers of an evening of music and reflection commemorating the Battle of Passchendaele are seeking participants to help illuminate the event at Tyne Cot Cemetery in Belgium.

September 24, 2017 CN Editorial Team

Somme ceremony honours Indian troops of the Great War

Tributes have been paid in France to 320 Indian First World War troops buried at La Chapelette British & Indian cemetery near Péronne.

October 3, 2017 CN Editorial Team

19 First World War soldiers buried at Commonwealth cemetery in Belgium

Nineteen soldiers of the British Army who fell on the battlefields of Flanders have been laid to rest at New Irish Farm CWGC cemetery near Ypres.

October 13, 2017 CN Editorial Team

New Zealand commemorates its ‘darkest day’ at Passchendaele

New Zealanders gathered in Belgium this week to pay tribute to their soldiers who fell at the Battle of Passchendaele in 1917.

October 16, 2017 CN Editorial Team

Candles light Tyne Cot in memory of Passchendaele

More than 7,000 people have taken part in a candle-lit evening of reflection at Tyne Cot Cemetery, remembering soldiers killed at the Battle of Passchendaele 100 years ago.

October 23, 2017 CN Editorial Team

100 Years Ago – Italy defeated at Battle of Caporetto

The Central Powers launched an offensive against Italy on 24 October 1917, achieving a significant breathrough after more than two years of fighting on the Isonzo river.