Events – Page 21 – First World War Centenary News Archive

October 1, 2014 CN Editorial Team

Classic film telling the story of 1914 naval battles restored for Centenary

The British Film Institute’s First World War commemorations continue with a special screening of The Battles of Coronel and Falkland Islands, an epic recreation of two key naval battles 100 years ago.

October 1, 2014 CN Editorial Team

Antwerp builds Centenary pontoon bridge to mark 1914 siege

The 100th anniversary of the siege of Antwerp is being marked with the opening of a peace bridge across the River Scheldt on October 3rd 2014.

October 3, 2014 CN Editorial Team

L’Adieu aux Armes – Roubaix remembers First World War with 4-year art show

Centenary News Deputy Editor, Peter Alhadeff, visits the French city of Roubaix for the launch of a series of art exhibitions, dedicated to the First World War, in a former art deco swimming pool.

October 3, 2014 CN Editorial Team

L’Adieu aux Armes – Roubaix remembers First World War with 4-year art show

Centenary News Deputy Editor, Peter Alhadeff, visits the French city of Roubaix for the launch of a series of art exhibitions, dedicated to the First World War, in a former art deco swimming pool.

October 3, 2014 CN Editorial Team

L’Adieu aux Armes – Roubaix remembers First World War with 4-year art show

The French city of Roubaix has launched a four-year programme of art exhibitions commemorating the First World War Centenary in a gallery which used to be an art deco swimming pool.

Author: Peter Alhadeff

October 4, 2014 CN Editorial Team

Human chain to remember France’s ‘forgotten front’

A human chain will line up across former battlefields in Northern France on October 18th 2014 to highlight a ‘forgotten front’ of the First World War.

End Date: 18 Oct 2014

October 6, 2014 CN Editorial Team

‘Enemy Aliens’ – Canadian War Museum explores internment during First World War

The story of thousands of people identified as 'enemy aliens' in Canada during the First World War is told in a special exhibition at the Canadian War Museum in Ottawa.

October 6, 2014 CN Editorial Team

‘Enemy Aliens’ – Canadian War Museum explores internment during First World War

The story of thousands of people identified as ‘enemy aliens’ in Canada during the First World War is told in a special exhibition at the Canadian War Museum in Ottawa.

Author: Christopher J. Harvie

October 7, 2014 CN Editorial Team

Centenary update: overwhelming interest in Antwerp’s pontoon bridge

Tens of thousands of people crossed a pontoon bridge in Antwerp, opened from October 3rd-5th 2014 to mark the 100th anniversary of the city’s First World War siege.

October 9, 2014 CN Editorial Team

First World War ‘Race To The Sea’ British soldiers to be reburied

Fifteen British soldiers are to be reburied at a Commonwealth cemetery in France on October 22nd 2014, a century after they were killed in fighting near the Belgian border.

End Date: 22 Oct 2014