Education – Page 22 – First World War Centenary News Archive

November 25, 2014 CN Editorial Team

Dulmial: the Pakistani ‘village with the gun’ honouring WW1 soldiers who fought for Britain

A cannon displayed in the Pakistani village of Dulmial honours 460 soldiers who fought for Britain in the First World War. Dr Irfan Malik and Michael Noble tell the remarkable story.

November 25, 2014 CN Editorial Team

Dulmial: the Pakistani ‘village with the gun’ honouring 460 First World War soldiers

The story of a small Punjab village’s significant contribution to the British war effort in 1914-18 is being brought to a wider audience for the Centenary.

November 26, 2014 CN Editorial Team

Volunteers wanted to track down ‘lost’ UK Great War munitions factories

Historian and broadcaster, Dan Snow, is calling on people around Britain to help find the sites of ‘missing’ First World War munitions factories which employed thousands of women.

December 2, 2014 CN Editorial Team

Bridge of Weir Memorial Society launches new website

The Bridge of Weir Memorial Society has launched a new website to tell the stories of the 72 young men whose names are commemorated on war memorials in their village in west Scotland.

December 4, 2014 CN Editorial Team

Centennial Countdown Blog Posting for November 2014

On November 30th 2014, Dennis Cross published the latest instalment to his Centennial Countdown blog. Here is his email summary

December 5, 2014 CN Editorial Team

Christmas Truce: British general wrote of ‘extraordinary state of affairs’ at the front

A rare account of the Christmas truce has come to light in a newly discovered letter written by a British commander on Christmas Day 1914.

December 5, 2014 CN Editorial Team

Christmas truce: British general wrote of ‘extraordinary state of affairs’ at the front

A rare account of the Christmas truce has come to light in a newly discovered letter written by General Sir Walter Congreve on Christmas Day 1914.

December 6, 2014 CN Editorial Team

Christmas truce: British & German schools mark Centenary with joint memorial in Belgium

A memorial to the Christmas truce, inspired by friendship between pupils from British and German schools, will be inaugurated in the Belgian town of Messines (Mesen) on December 6th 2014.

December 8, 2014 CN Editorial Team

Christmas truce: schools host UK & German envoys for memorial opening

The German and UK Ambassadors to Belgium have unveiled a new memorial to the 1914 Christmas truce at a ceremony organised by students from British and German schools.

December 9, 2014 CN Editorial Team

Records of First World War Red Cross volunteers go online

The British Red Cross is giving online access to the records of thousands of people, some of them famous names, who served as volunteers during the First World War.