Events – Page 54 – First World War Centenary News Archive

August 17, 2016 CN Editorial Team

Zeppelin crash centenary to be marked in UK village

The forced-landing of a German Zeppelin near the village of Little Wigorough in eastern England 100 years ago will be marked with a programme of events in September 2016.

August 23, 2016 CN Editorial Team

‘Cultural Exchange in a Time of Global Conflict’ – Call for community-led projects

Researchers based at King’s College London are offering an opportunity to showcase community-led projects focussing on the colonial or dominion contribution to the First World War.

September 7, 2016 CN Editorial Team

Somme Centenary – New Zealand remembers at Longueval Sept 15

Prince Charles is to join New Zealanders in France next week for commemorations honouring those who fought at the Battle of the Somme a century ago.

September 9, 2016 CN Editorial Team

‘North Carolina & World War I’ – US Centennial exhibition in 2017

A multimedia exhibition marking the centennial of America’s entry into the First World War opens at the North Carolina Museum of History, Raleigh, in April next year.

September 15, 2016 CN Editorial Team

WW1 Tank Centenary – Tank display marks historic 1916 attack

100 years after the first tanks rolled into action, a replica First World War British tank took up positions in the heart of London for the September 15 Centenary.

September 16, 2016 CN Editorial Team

‘The Price of a Mile’ – exhibition honouring Somme doctors

Booking is open for the London preview of a new exhibition paying tribute to doctors who administered anaesthetics and pain relief to the wounded at the Battle of the Somme.

September 19, 2016 CN Editorial Team

Somme Centenary events in France honour New Zealand’s Fallen

New Zealand held a series of commemorations in France on 15 September 2016 to mark the centenary of the New Zealand Division joining the Battle of the Somme.

September 30, 2016 CN Editorial Team

‘The World Remembers’ – 1916 memorial event opens

The Canadian War Museum is among 60 institutions globally hosting the 2016 screening of The World Remembers’ – a video project commemorating the dead of the Great War.

October 3, 2016 CN Editorial Team

Vigils remember Virginia’s First World War soldiers.

Vigils were held in Virginia on 17 September 2016 in memory of the US state’s soldiers who served in the Great War.

October 5, 2016 CN Editorial Team

Two unknown WW1 soldiers buried at Commonwealth cemetery in France

Two British First World War soldiers whose identities remain unknown a century after they fell have been laid to rest on the former battlefields of Loos in Northern France.