Belgium – Page 23 – First World War Centenary News Archive

February 14, 2017 CN Editorial Team

New Zealand marks Battle of Messines Centenary – June 2017

New Zealand will hold events in Belgium on June 7 to commemorate its role in the Battle of Messines, a dramatic prelude to the main Allied offensive at Ypres in 1917.

February 15, 2017 CN Editorial Team

‘Passchendaele Remembered’ – 3rd Battle of Ypres Centenary events update

The latest on commemorations coming up in Flanders in 2017 to mark the centenary of a WW1 campaign fought in some of the most atrocious conditions on the Western Front.

March 3, 2017 CN Editorial Team

Book Review – The Western Front: Landscape, Tourism and Heritage

Battlefield guide Victor Piuk discovers new perspectives in this study of how the landscapes of the Great War have influenced a century of commemoration and tourism.

Publication Date: 27 Oct 2016

Author: Dr Stephen Miles

March 17, 2017 CN Editorial Team

Passchendaele Centenary opening for ‘Zonnebeke Church Dugout’

A preserved WW1 dugout will be specially opened to the public for the Battle of Passchendaele Centenary in 2017, the Memorial Museum Passchendaele announces.

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.