Events – Page 47 – First World War Centenary News Archive

March 20, 2016 CN Editorial Team

Jutland Update – May 31 Centenary service at Portsmouth Naval Memorial

Britain’s Royal Navy will hold a parade and remembrance service in Southsea on May 31st 2016 as part of UK commemorations marking the Battle of Jutland Centenary.

March 21, 2016 CN Editorial Team

Somme Centenary – 2016 cultural programme at Péronne WW1 museum

Conferences focussing on the German occupation of the Somme and France’s role in the 1916 offensive feature in a centenary cultural programme organised by the Museum of the Great War, Péronne.

March 22, 2016 CN Editorial Team

Somme Centenary – CWGC update on visiting Thiepval, June-July 2016

Access to the Thiepval Memorial will be restricted over the immediate Somme Centenary period, the Commonwealth War Graves Commission announces.

March 25, 2016 CN Editorial Team

National Museum of Ireland exhibition marks 1916 Centenary

The events of the Easter Rising are told in a new centenary exhibition at the National Museum of Ireland, Dublin.

March 27, 2016 CN Editorial Team

Easter ceremonies in Ireland remember 1916 uprising against British rule

Big crowds lined the streets of Dublin on Easter Sunday (March 27th 2016) for commemorations marking the centenary of the Easter Rising during WW1.

April 6, 2016 CN Editorial Team

Jutland Centenary – New CWGC guides to remembering thousands lost at sea

The Commonwealth War Graves Commission is encouraging people to remember the Battle of Jutland, with the launch of new commemorative resources for the May 2016 Centenary.

April 7, 2016 CN Editorial Team

UK call for nationwide vigils to mark Somme Centenary

Cities, towns and villages across Britain are invited to hold their own tributes in summer 2016 to mark 100 years since the start of the Battle of the Somme.

April 7, 2016 CN Editorial Team

Major Austrian exhibition marks Emperor Franz Joseph death centenary

Emperor Franz Joseph’s 68-year reign is re-examined with simultaneous exhibitions in and around Vienna marking the centenary of his death during the First World War.

April 8, 2016 CN Editorial Team

Seven unknown WW1 British soldiers laid to rest in Flanders

Seven unknown British soldiers of the First World War have been reburied at ceremonies in Commonwealth War Graves Commission cemeteries in Belgium.

April 14, 2016 CN Editorial Team

America’s volunteers – new exhibition at US National World War I Museum

The many roles of American volunteers in the Great War are highlighted in a new exhibition at the National World War I Museum and Memorial in Kansas City, Missouri.