Beyond the 1914-1918 Centenary's next lecture, focusing on the sinking of the Lusitania, will be held on 7th May 2015 in Brussels.
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Lusitania Centenary: Ireland’s day of tribute on the Cork coast
Centenary News reports from Cobh, where thousands of visitors packed the streets on May 7th 2015 for a day of tributes to mark the 100th anniversary of the sinking of the Lusitania.
Continue reading‘Fields of Battle Lands of Peace 14-18’ – Photographer Mike Sheil talks at Stowe School
Photographer Michael St Maur Sheil will be talking about his First World War exhibition, Fields of Battle Lands of Peace 14-18, at Stowe School, near Buckingham in the UK, on Tuesday May 12th 2015.
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Centenary Update on remembering the Gretna troop train crash
Princess Anne will attend commemorations in Scotland in May 2015 marking the centenary of the Gretna disaster which killed more than 200 troops leaving for Gallipoli.
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Talbot House appeals for wartime photos of the Poperinge ‘Every Man’s Club’
Talbot House is appealing for wartime photos of the ‘home from home’ created for WW1 British soldiers in Belgium as part of its 2015 Centenary.
Continue readingLondon lecture examines lessons of 1918 flu pandemic
The influenza pandemic which spread across the world with devastating results in the final months of the Great War is discussed at a lecture in London on May 13th 2015.
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Tribute to mark 30,000th Last Post at the Menin Gate – July 2015
A global tribute is planned to accompany the 30,000th sounding of the Last Post at the Menin Gate, Ypres, on July 9th 2015.
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Eight Canadian First World War soldiers reburied on the Somme
Eight Canadian soldiers have been reburied with full military honours in France, almost a century after they were killed in the closing months of the First World War.
Continue readingCentenary Update on remembering the Gretna troop train crash
Princess Anne attends commemorations in Scotland on May 22nd/23rd 2015 marking the centenary of the rail disaster which killed more than 200 troops.
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Commemoration event held to mark the Quintinshill rail disaster
The centenary of the Quintinshill rail disaster was commemorated today in Gretna in Scotland at an event attended by Princess Anne, Scotland’s First Minister Nicola Sturgeon, and descendents of some of those who died.
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