Digital – Page 15 – First World War Centenary News Archive

January 26, 2015 CN Editorial Team

New First World War website reveals art and writing of German brothers

Katherine Quinlan-Flatter reports from Germany on the discoveries which have inspired her to launch a new website devoted to the war experiences of the Kiefer brothers from Ettlingen, near Karlsruhe.

January 29, 2015 CN Editorial Team

Commonwealth War Graves Commission releases new archive records to researchers

Archives relating to the work of the Commonwealth War Graves Commission have been made available to researchers and members of the public.

January 29, 2015 CN Editorial Team

Commonwealth War Graves Commission releases new archive records to researchers

Archives relating to the work of the Commonwealth War Graves Commission (CWGC) have been made available to researchers and members of the public..

February 2, 2015 CN Editorial Team

Centennial Countdown Blog Posting for January 2015

The latest Centennial Countdown posting by the American First World War blogger Dennis Cross – covering January 1915.

February 8, 2015 CN Editorial Team

Launch of new website for information on all UK war memorials

Britain’s First World War Minister, Helen Grant, has announced a four-year programme to create ukwarmemorials.org, a ‘one stop shop’ for information on all UK war memorials.

February 8, 2015 CN Editorial Team

64,000 Royal Marine records added to IWM’s digital memorial site

The Imperial War Museum has added the records of more than 64,000 Royal Marines to Lives of the First World War, its digital memorial to those caught up in the conflict.

February 9, 2015 CN Editorial Team

64,000 Royal Marine records added to IWM’s digital memorial site

The Imperial War Museum has added the records of more than 64,000 Royal Marines to Lives of the First World War, its digital memorial to those caught up in the conflict

February 11, 2015 CN Editorial Team

Legacy of First World War Scottish bagpipers explored in Sutherland

Musicians and researchers in the north of Scotland are working together to explore the role of music, particularly the bagpipes, during the First World War.

February 25, 2015 CN Editorial Team

Blog chronicling 100 New Zealand World War One memorials

Helen Vail has visited 100 of New Zealand’s WWI memorials and collected information and stories of the men and women who gave their lives. She shares these accounts on her blog.

March 5, 2015 CN Editorial Team

WW1 online medical records project hits 100,000 names

UK military genealogy specialists, Forces War Records, have now transcribed 100,000 medical records of British First World War soldiers as part of a project to make them available online.

Author: Nicki Giles