Events – Page 49 – First World War Centenary News Archive

May 3, 2016 CN Editorial Team

Pioneering US WWI pilots remembered in France

France and the US paid tribute to America’s first airmen of the Great War at a ceremony rededicating the Lafayette Escadrille Memorial near Paris on April 20th 2016.

May 6, 2016 CN Editorial Team

‘They shall not pass’ – US WWI Museum highlights Verdun & the Somme

The Battles of Verdun and the Somme are the focus for a new exhibition opening today (May 6th 2016) at the National World World War I Museum in Kansas City, Missouri.

May 10, 2016 CN Editorial Team

‘Her Side of the War’ – Women at the front remembered in Flanders

The stories of women who contributed to the Allied war effort are highlighted in Flanders with a special programme of events entitled ‘Her Side of the War.’

May 11, 2016 CN Editorial Team

‘Jutland: The Unfinished Battle’ – Centenary exhibition in Germany

A special exhibition opens at the Deutches Marinemuseum on May 29th 2016 as part of a weekend of remembrance in Wilhelmshaven marking the centenary of the Skagerrakschlacht/Battle of Jutland.

May 12, 2016 CN Editorial Team

Jutland – Scotland to mark Centenary on Firth of Forth

A ceremony has been held on the Firth of Forth to launch Scotland’s national commemorations for the Battle of Jutland Centenary.

May 16, 2016 CN Editorial Team

Summer school to explore ‘forgotten’ Macedonia Front

Applications are invited for an international summer school focussing on the Macedonian Front of the First World War from June 25-30th 2016.

May 19, 2016 CN Editorial Team

UK navy museum explores ‘misunderstood’ Battle of Jutland

Britain’s Royal Navy Museum has opened its major Centenary exhibition ’36 Hours: Jutland 1916, The Battle that Won the War’ at Portsmouth Historic Dockyard.

May 22, 2016 CN Editorial Team

Blacksmiths to create WW1 Poppy Cenotaph in Flanders

Blacksmiths and farriers from around the world are working on a project to create a steel cenotaph and poppies in Flanders, remembering people of all sides affected by the First World War.

May 24, 2016 CN Editorial Team

Somme Centenary – 1,000 public tickets for Scotland’s vigil

Ticket applications are invited to attend the Somme Centenary Vigil at the Scottish National War Memorial, Edinburgh Castle, on June 30th 2016.

May 24, 2016 CN Editorial Team

Jutland families unite in Trafalgar Square tribute to the Fallen

Descendants of the Battle of Jutland commanders paid tribute to all those who died in the biggest naval clash of the First World War at a ceremony in London’s Trafalgar Square on May 23rd 2016.