President Macron and his Portuguese counterpart, Marcelo Rebelo de Sousa, led tributes at Richebourg today (9 April 2018) to Portuguese soldiers who fell on the Western Front.
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Tag: Campaigns
The Defence of Givenchy – holding the German Spring Offensive, April 1918
Major Paul Knight describes how British troops of the 55th (West Lancashire) Division held the line against a German push towards the Channel ports 100 years ago.
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The Defence of Givenchy – holding the German Spring Offensive, April 1918
Major Paul Knight describes how British troops of the 55th (West Lancashire) Division held the line against a German push towards the Channel ports 100 years ago.
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100 Years Ago – Field Marshal Haig calls for ‘Backs to the Wall’ fight to the last
‘There is no other course open to us but to fight it out,’ British commander Sir Douglas Haig ordered on 11 April 1918, rallying his troops against fresh German advances threatening the Channel ports.
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Seicheprey – America’s WWI Baptism of Fire
On the Centennial of America’s first significant clash of the Great War, Patrick Gregory tells the story of the encounter at Seicheprey, on 20 April 1918.
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Seicheprey – America’s WWI Baptism of Fire
On the Centennial of America's first significant clash of the Great War, Patrick Gregory tells the story of the encounter at Seicheprey, on 20 April 1918.
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Australia’s new Sir John Monash Centre at Villers-Bretonneux
Australia has opened a new multi-media visitor centre in France, commemorating Australian forces on the Western Front at the scene of some of their most successful WW1 actions.
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‘Battle for the North Sea’ exhibition in Flanders unites 11 Victoria Crosses
Centenary News tours a new exhibition in Bruges, bringing together all the Zeebrugge Raid Victoria Crosses – and highlighting both sides of the WW1 struggle between Flanders -based German submarines and Britain’s Royal Navy.
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German push halted at Villers-Bretonneux, 25 April 1918
Australian troops, supported by British units, scored a notable victory on Anzac Day 1918, halting a German advance towards Amiens with its strategically important railway junction.
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Spring 1918 – The US air effort takes off
The rise of American power in WWI, told by Patrick Gregory on the Centennial of ‘Ace of Aces’ Eddie Rickenbacker scoring his first victory in the skies.
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