Education – Page 48 – First World War Centenary News Archive

April 13, 2017 CN Editorial Team

‘Face-to-Face’ in Arras with troops of the Great War

A street display of pictures in Arras brings visitors close to soldiers and many others who served here during the First World War.

Author: Peter Alhadeff

April 16, 2017 CN Editorial Team

100 Years Ago: Battle of Chemin des Dames

French forces launched a disastrous attack on the Chemin des Dames on 16 April 1917, triggering a crisis of morale and a controversial First World War legacy.

April 19, 2017 CN Editorial Team

100 Years Ago: The Chinese Labour Corps arrives

Chinese workers recruited to support Britain’s war effort on the Western Front started arriving in France on 19 April 1917.

April 29, 2017 CN Editorial Team

Arras tunnels survey presented for 2017 Centenary

Surveyors from the University of Otago have carried out a complex study of the First World War tunnels dug beneath Arras by New Zealand troops.

May 3, 2017 CN Editorial Team

‘Away from the Western Front’ launches Centenary projects

Centenary News reports from the opening of ‘Away from the Western Front’, a new venture to raise awareness of WW1 campaigns in Africa, the Balkans and the Middle East.

May 6, 2017 CN Editorial Team

Centenary tribute to mine-sweeping trawler crew

A ceremony has been held on England’s south coast to commemorate 10 crewmen of the trawler HMT Arfon, lost on mine-sweeping duties in April 1917.

May 15, 2017 CN Editorial Team

100 Years Ago: Britain’s Mercantile Marine and its first convoys

Britain introduced transatlantic convoys in May 1917 to protect merchant ships from an increasingly dangerous German U-boat campaign.

May 15, 2017 CN Editorial Team

100 Years Ago: Britain’s Mercantile Marine and its first convoys

Britain introduced transatlantic convoys in May 1917 to protect merchant ships from an increasingly dangerous German U-boat campaign.

Author: Roger Hoefling

May 21, 2017 CN Editorial Team

100 Years Ago: Commonwealth War Graves Commission founded

The Imperial War Graves Commission – later renamed the Commonwealth War Graves Commission – was created by Royal Charter on 21 May 1917 to remember the Great War dead of Britain and its Dominions in perpetuity.

May 27, 2017 CN Editorial Team

The False Armistice – 7 November 1918

In a special article for Centenary News, James Smith describes how news broke prematurely of an end to the First World War.

Author: James Smith