Events – Page 60 – First World War Centenary News Archive

April 11, 2017 CN Editorial Team

Scotland remembers the Battle of Arras

Scotland paid tribute to its dead in Arras with commemorations at Faubourg d’Amiens Commonwealth Cemetery, and a Beating Retreat Ceremony in the city centre attended by First Minister Nicola Sturgeon.

April 12, 2017 CN Editorial Team

Canada marks ‘pivotal’ Battle of Vimy Ridge

Thousands of Canadians gathered at Vimy Ridge for the centenary of a First World War victory seen as a defining moment in their country’s birth as an independent nation.

April 13, 2017 CN Editorial Team

Battle of Arras/Vimy Ridge Centenary – Dawn tribute to tunnellers

Arras and Vimy Ridge hosted a day of commemorations on 9 April 2017 bringing together the nations who fought in the Allies’ first concerted Western Front offensive of 1917.

April 13, 2017 CN Editorial Team

‘Face-to-Face’ in Arras with troops of the Great War

A street display of pictures in Arras brings visitors close to soldiers and many others who served here during the First World War.

Author: Peter Alhadeff

April 13, 2017 CN Editorial Team

‘Face-to-Face’ in Arras with troops of the Great War

A street display of pictures in Arras brings visitors close to soldiers and many others who served here during the First World War.

April 16, 2017 CN Editorial Team

100 Years Ago: Battle of Chemin des Dames

French forces launched a disastrous attack on the Chemin des Dames on 16 April 1917, triggering a crisis of morale and a controversial First World War legacy.

April 23, 2017 CN Editorial Team

UK & Ireland to share Messines Centenary remembrance

Britain and Ireland are to hold a joint tribute to soldiers from nationalist and unionist traditions who fought side by side at the Battle of Messines in the summer of 1917.

May 2, 2017 CN Editorial Team

Australian Memorial Garden opens in Passchendaele

The latest commemorative garden to open at the Passchendaele Memorial Park in Belgium honours Australian soldiers of the Great War.

May 6, 2017 CN Editorial Team

Centenary tribute to mine-sweeping trawler crew

A ceremony has been held on England’s south coast to commemorate 10 crewmen of the trawler HMT Arfon, lost on mine-sweeping duties in April 1917.

May 12, 2017 CN Editorial Team

‘Shrouds of the Somme’ appeal for 2018 Armistice Centenary

A crowd funding campaign has been launched to display a British artist’s poignant tribute to the fallen of the Great War in London for the November 2018 Armistice Centenary.