Belgium – Page 22 – First World War Centenary News Archive

July 14, 2016 CN Editorial Team

Team building full scale replica of British tank appeal for funds

Enthusiasts in a Belgian village just outside Ypres are building a full-scale working replica of a British tank which took part in the Battle of Paschendaele – and have issued an appeal for funds.

July 27, 2016 CN Editorial Team

Centenary tribute to British seafarer executed in 1916

A century after his execution for attempting to ram a German U-boat, tributes have been paid to the North Sea ferry captain, Charles Fryatt.

October 4, 2016 CN Editorial Team

US Centennial Commission signs partnership deal with Belgium

America’s WWI Centennial Commission and the Belgian Federal Government have signed an agreement to ‘share experience, knowledge and technical means’ ahead of commemorations marking the 100th anniversary of US entry into the First World War.

November 29, 2016 CN Editorial Team

Oxford seminars to explore ‘how we can best commemorate war’

Leading figures from the arts and politics will discuss post-war commemoration and reconciliation at a series of seminars in 2017-18, Oxford University announces.

December 10, 2016 CN Editorial Team

Execution of first British officer in WW1 – December 10 1916

Second lieutenant Eric Poole, shot by firing squad on 10 December 1916, was the first British army officer to be executed in the Great War, despite evidence of shell shock.

January 1, 2017 CN Editorial Team

Centenary News countdown to First World War anniversaries in 2017

The penultimate year of the Great War unleashed events that would reshape the world in the 20th century.

January 3, 2017 CN Editorial Team

Third Battle of Ypres/Passchendaele Centenary – UK ticket ballot opens

Descendants of those who fought at the Third Battle of Ypres/Passchendaele are invited to apply for tickets to attend the UK’s centenary commemorations in Belgium on 31 July 2017.

January 10, 2017 CN Editorial Team

NZ’s new Prime Minister visits WW1 battlefields in Belgium

New Zealand’s recently appointed Prime Minister, Bill English, has made an early visit to First World War memorials at the centre of Centenary commemorations in 2017.

February 1, 2017 CN Editorial Team

‘War Beneath the Waves’ – Germany’s U-boats in Flanders

German U-boat operations on the Flemish coast were discussed by marine archaeologist Tomas Termote at a lecture launching the English edition of his book on the WW1 submarine campaign.

February 1, 2017 CN Editorial Team

War Beneath the Waves: U-boat Flottilla Flandern 1915-18

Centenary News verdict’Belgian marine archaeologist Tomas Termote has amassed a wealth of information, personal stories, and rare photos for this encyclopaedic history of Germany’s U-boat crews on the Flemish coast. The author’s newly-published English edition provides a welcome insight into the German side of the story for an Anglophone readership.’

Publication Date: 03 Oct 2016

Author: Tomas Termote