Education – Page 43 – First World War Centenary News Archive

August 29, 2016 CN Editorial Team

100 Years Ago: Hindenburg & Ludendorff take over in German high command reshuffle

Field Marshal Hindenburg and General Ludendorff took over command of the German Army on August 29th 1916, dominating Germany’s military leadership for the rest of the First World War.

September 3, 2016 CN Editorial Team

100 Years Ago Today: First German airship shot down over UK

William Leefe Robinson became the first British pilot to shoot down a German airship over England in the early hours of September 3rd 1916.

September 5, 2016 CN Editorial Team

WW1 minesweeping trawler wreck protected

The ‘exceptionally well-preserved’ wreck of a trawler fitted out by the British Navy as a minesweeper during the First World War has been given special protection by the UK Government.

September 8, 2016 CN Editorial Team

‘Conscientious objection & dissent’ – New Zealand First World War study

Comprehensive lists of New Zealanders who opposed conscription in the Great War have been compiled for the first time, New Zealand Government historians have announced.

September 16, 2016 CN Editorial Team

‘The Price of a Mile’ – exhibition honouring Somme doctors

Booking is open for the London preview of a new exhibition paying tribute to doctors who administered anaesthetics and pain relief to the wounded at the Battle of the Somme.

September 26, 2016 CN Editorial Team

Lincolnshire WW1 aviation project ready for take-off with UK lottery grant

A centenary project in Lincolnshire has been awarded a £423,500 grant from the UK’s Heritage Lottery Fund for a project highlighting the county’s role in pioneering First World War aviation.

September 30, 2016 CN Editorial Team

‘The World Remembers’ – 1916 memorial event opens

The Canadian War Museum is among 60 institutions globally hosting the 2016 screening of The World Remembers’ – a video project commemorating the dead of the Great War.

October 3, 2016 CN Editorial Team

Vigils remember Virginia’s First World War soldiers.

Vigils were held in Virginia on 17 September 2016 in memory of the US state’s soldiers who served in the Great War.

October 13, 2016 CN Editorial Team

‘The Price of a Mile’ – Anaesthesia during the Battle of the Somme

The Price of a Mile, an exhibition honouring doctors who gave anaesthesia and pain relief to wounded soldiers on the Somme, opened at the Anaesthesia Heritage Centre in London with a lecture by military medical historian Dr Emily Mayhew.

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October 15, 2016 CN Editorial Team

Leicester University remembers fallen soldier commemorated with its founding

Archive material has uncovered one of the stories that inspired Leicester University’s foundation as a ‘living memorial’ to the dead of the First World War.