Education – Page 35 – First World War Centenary News Archive

December 6, 2015 CN Editorial Team

Gallipoli Centenary Education Project completes battlefield tours programme

Staff and students from a Devon school in the UK have visited the battlefields of the Dardanelles on the third and final tour of a programme organised by the Gallipoli Centenary Education Project.

December 7, 2015 CN Editorial Team

100 Years Ago Today: Ottoman siege of Kut starts in Mesopotamia

Ottoman troops trapped a British-Indian force in the town of Kut-al-Amara on December 7th 1915, heralding a siege that lasted almost five months.

December 7, 2015 CN Editorial Team

100 Years Ago Today: British ministers order Gallipoli pull-out

The British Government ordered the withdrawal of Allied troops from Anzac Cove and Suvla on December 7th 1915, signalling the end of the Gallipoli campaign.

December 7, 2015 CN Editorial Team

Kut-al-Amara: How & why the siege began

General Sir Charles Townshend’s controversial decision to stand against the Ottomans at Kut-al-Amara in December 1915 is discussed in this article by Major Paul Knight.

Author: Major Paul Knight

December 7, 2015 CN Editorial Team

Kut-al-Amara: How & why the siege began

General Sir Charles Townshend's controversial decision to stand against the Ottomans at Kut-al-Amara in December 1915 is discussed in this article by Major Paul Knight.

December 19, 2015 CN Editorial Team

100 Years Ago Today: Sir Douglas Haig takes over British command on the Western Front

General Sir Douglas Haig succeeded Field Marshal Sir John French as commander-in-chief of British forces in France and Flanders on December 19th 1915.

December 19, 2015 CN Editorial Team

A soldier’s story of the first hours of the Somme – rediscovered by local historian

Former BBC journalist Howard Benson has unearthed the story of a British army tunneller who witnessed one of the enormous explosions launching the Battle of the Somme on July 1st 1916.

December 20, 2015 CN Editorial Team

100 Years Ago Today: Last Allied soldiers leave Anzac Cove & Suvla

The withdrawal of Allied troops from Suvla and Anzac Cove on Turkey’s Gallipoli peninsula was completed on December 20th 1915.

January 1, 2016 CN Editorial Team

Centenary News countdown to First World War anniversaries in 2016

Centenary News looks ahead to the some of the major First World War anniversaries which will be remembered in 2016.

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.