Education – Page 52 – First World War Centenary News Archive

November 7, 2017 CN Editorial Team

100 Years Ago: Bolsheviks seize power in the Russian Revolution

On the Centenary of the Bolshevik coup, Patrick Gregory looks back at the turmoil which propelled Lenin’s revolutionaries to power in Russia during the First World War.

Author: Patrick Gregory

November 10, 2017 CN Editorial Team

100 Years Ago: Battle of Passchendaele ends

Canadian troops completed the capture of Passchendaele on 10 November 1917, ending the Allied offensive in Flanders known also as the Third Battle of Ypres.

November 10, 2017 CN Editorial Team

CWGC launches new charity ‘bridging generation gap’ in remembrance

The Commonwealth War Graves Commission is embarking on a new venture, encouraging young people to take forward remembrance of the dead of both world wars.

November 13, 2017 CN Editorial Team

Zeebrugge Raid Centenary 2018 – Call for Papers

The National Museum of the Royal Navy is inviting papers for an April 2018 conference marking the centenary of Britain’s attempt to seal off German U-boat bases on the Belgian coast.

December 6, 2017 CN Editorial Team

100 Years Ago: The Halifax Explosion

A ship loaded with high explosives blew up following a collision in the Canadian port of Halifax on 6 December 1917, killing 2,000 people and leaving thousands more homeless.

December 8, 2017 CN Editorial Team

First US WW1 destroyer loss commemorated for Centenary

Britain’s Maritime Archaeology Trust is telling the story of USS Jacob Jones, torpedoed on 6 December 1917 in the southwest approaches to the English Channel.

December 10, 2017 CN Editorial Team

The US declares war on Austria-Hungary, 7 December 1917

America extended its WW1 involvement as 1917 drew to a close, declaring war on Germany’s ally, Austria-Hungary.

December 11, 2017 CN Editorial Team

100 Years Ago: Jerusalem falls to British-led forces

General Sir Edmund Allenby entered Jerusalem on 11 December 1917 after a six-week campaign against the Ottomans in Palestine, as Major Paul Knight explains.

December 11, 2017 CN Editorial Team

100 Years Ago: Jerusalem falls to British-led forces

General Sir Edmund Allenby entered Jerusalem on 11 December 1917 after a six-week campaign against the Ottomans in Palestine, as Major Paul Knight explains.

Author: Paul Knight

December 15, 2017 CN Editorial Team

100 Years Ago: Armistice on the Eastern Front

Russia’s new revolutionary socialist leaders agreed an armistice with the Central Powers on 15 December 1917, suspending the Great War on the Eastern Front.