Education – Page 23 – First World War Centenary News Archive

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.

December 10, 2014 CN Editorial Team

Blog talks of rethink about the role of the Indian soldiers in the First World War

Shashi Tharoor, an author and member of the Indian National Congress, has written a blog about the 1.3 million Indian troops who served in the First World War.

December 12, 2014 CN Editorial Team

‘Trench Brothers’ teaches schoolchildren about ethnic minority soldiers in the First World War

‘Trench Brothers’ is a First World War project for UK primary schools focusing on the role of ethnic minority soldiers and introducing the war through specially designed cross-curricular activities and lessons.

December 20, 2014 CN Editorial Team

100 Years Ago Today: The First Battle of Champagne

The First Battle of Champagne began on December 20th 1914 in the Champagne region of France. It was the first offensive by the Allies since initiation of trench warfare on the Western Front.

December 25, 2014 CN Editorial Team

100 Years Ago Today: The Christmas Truce

The historic ceasefires along the Western Front, today remembered as the Christmas truce, started on Christmas Day 1914 when gunfire briefly gave way to gifts and greetings in ‘no-man’s land.’

January 1, 2015 CN Editorial Team

Centenary News countdown to First World War anniversaries coming up in 2015

Centenary News looks ahead to some of the major First World War anniversaries which will be remembered in 2015.

January 7, 2015 CN Editorial Team

British pupils visit Gallipoli as part of Centenary Education Project

Pupils from a British school have visited Gallipoli as part of a new education programme marking the 100th anniversary of the Allied landings in Turkey in 1915.

January 9, 2015 CN Editorial Team

‘Propaganda and War’ – First World War Centenary exhibition in Istanbul

The Centenary is being marked in Turkey with an exhibition of First World War Ottoman documents and memorabilia at Koç University’s Research Center for Anatolian Civilizations in Istanbul.

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January 10, 2015 CN Editorial Team

‘Propaganda and War’ – First World War Centenary exhibition in Istanbul

The Centenary is being marked in Turkey with an exhibition of First World War Ottoman documents and memorabilia at Koç University's Research Center for Anatolian Civilizations in Istanbul.

January 15, 2015 CN Editorial Team

Canada: Launch of GWCA ‘Doing Our Bit’ website

The Great War Centenary Association – Brantford, Brant County, Six Nations in Ontario, Canada – has launched its new website, ‘Doing Our Bit’, to document the community’s involvement during the First World War.