Digital – Page 18 – First World War Centenary News Archive

October 30, 2015 CN Editorial Team

New Zealand’s latest WW1 trail guide follows the Western Front

New Zealand has released its latest interactive guide to First World War battlefields of significance for New Zealanders, this time exploring the Western Front.

November 12, 2015 CN Editorial Team

French Western Front app explores Bethune & the Artois battles

A new app explores First World War sites at the centre of events in the Béthune area of Northern France a century ago.

November 22, 2015 CN Editorial Team

French Western Front app explores Bethune & the Artois battles

A new app explores First World War sites at the centre of events in the Béthune area of Northern France 100 years ago.

December 1, 2015 CN Editorial Team

Centenary News explores Nick Jellicoe’s Jutland anniversary website

A new website telling the story of the Battle of Jutland has been launched for the 2016 Centenary by Nick Jellicoe, grandson of Britain’s First World War naval commander, Admiral Sir John Jellicoe.

December 2, 2015 CN Editorial Team

First World War shipwrecks revealed in 3D off England’s south coast

Images of a fishing boat sunk in 1917 while on war service with the British Navy have been released by the Maritime Archaeology Trust as part of a Centenary project exploring WW1 shipwrecks.

December 27, 2015 CN Editorial Team

Czech WW1 soldiers at Christmas – remembered on Radio Prague

Czech soldiers’ stories of Christmas in the First World War are told in a special programme broadcast on Radio Prague.

January 6, 2016 CN Editorial Team

‘The Caribbean’s Great War’ – Centenary project remembers West Indian soldiers

The contribution made by Caribbean soldiers to the Allies in the First World War is being given further recognition in a series of initiatives by the West India Committee in the UK.

January 13, 2016 CN Editorial Team

WW1 hospital diaries go online from UK National Archives

The challenges of treating First World War casualties on the battlefield and at sea are revealed in newly-released online records from Britain’s National Archives.

February 9, 2016 CN Editorial Team

‘Forgotten Wrecks’ project remembers 1918 convoy tragedy

The loss of 34 crewmen in a collision with the world’s largest oil tanker in March 1918 is among the latest stories told as part of the Maritime Archaeology Trust’s ‘Forgotten Wrecks of the First World War’ project.

February 24, 2016 CN Editorial Team

Online project to share stories of British sailors at the Battle of Jutland

Britain's Royal Navy Museum has launched a digital project to map stories of sailors who fought at the Battle of Jutland in 1916.