More than 7,000 people have taken part in a candle-lit evening of reflection at Tyne Cot Cemetery, remembering soldiers killed at the Battle of Passchendaele 100 years ago.
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‘Beyond the Battlefields’ – Käthe Buchler’s Photographs of Germany in the Great War
The work of a German photographer who focussed her camera on the home front is being displayed for the first time outside Germany, at twin UK exhibitions in Birmingham.
Continue reading‘Hold High The Torch’ – CWGC global remembrance event, November 11
The Commonwealth War Graves Commission invites people to take part in a global remembrance event on Armistice Day, using digital technology to create ‘a wave of light from Sydney to London.’
Continue readingUS digs in for start of ‘long overdue’ WW1 National Memorial in Washington
The new US National World War I Memorial has taken a significant step forward, with a ground-breaking ceremony to get the project under way in the nation’s capital.
Continue readingArmistice Centenary – France to invite world leaders
Leaders of the countries involved in the First World War will be invited to Paris for the November 2018 Centenary of the Armistice, President Macron announces.
Continue readingBattle of Cambrai Centenary events get under way
A surviving Great War tank has been the focus for a remembrance service in the UK town of Ashford, as Cambrai Centenary commemorations start in Britain and France this weekend.
Continue readingCambrai Centenary – tank tribute at London’s Cenotaph
Soldiers and veterans of Britain’s Royal Tank Regiment paraded before a replica Mark IV tank at the Cenotaph in tribute to their predecessors who fought at the Battle of Cambrai 100 years ago.
Continue readingScotland honours pioneering WW1 doctor Elsie Inglis
Tributes are being paid to the doctor who defied disapproval to set up hospitals, staffed by women, to treat wounded soldiers in France and the Balkans.
Continue readingReview of WW1 Centenary year 2017
Centenary News looks back at some of many events in 2017 commemorating the 100th anniversary of the First World War.
Continue reading‘Making a New World’ – 2018 Centenary events coming up at IWM
As well as displaying the Tower of London Poppies, Imperial War Museums announce they will also hold a programme of special events in 2018 to close their First World War Centenary commemorations.
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