Events – Page 71 – First World War Centenary News Archive

September 16, 2018 CN Editorial Team

New Zealand events marking Le Quesnoy Centenary

New Zealand announces more details of events taking place in France on November 4 to mark the centenary of its last major First World War action – the liberation of Le Quesnoy.

September 20, 2018 CN Editorial Team

Latest Armistice Centenary exhibitions open at IWM

Four exhibitions have opened at the Imperial War Museum in London as part of Making a New World – IWM’s season of events for the close of the First World War Centenary.

September 21, 2018 CN Editorial Team

‘Battle of the Ancre’ film in Bristol for Armistice Centenary

The official film of the British Army’s autumn campaign on the Somme in 1916 will be screened in Bristol, with live music, as part of an Armistice Centenary tour in November.

September 23, 2018 CN Editorial Team

Armistice Centenary – Australian War Memorial events in Canberra

A display of 62,000 poppies, representing Australia’s fallen in WW1, and a beam of light are among events announced by the Australian War Memorial in Canberra to commemorate the centenary of the Armistice.

September 23, 2018 CN Editorial Team

Armistice Centenary – Update on French events

President Macron will meet the German Chancellor, Angela Merkel, at Compiègne – and also tour regions of France devastated by the First World War as part of nationwide events marking the Armistice Centenary.

September 26, 2018 CN Editorial Team

The Meuse-Argonne: Remembering America’s biggest battle

Patrick Gregory reports from US commemorations in France, marking the Centennial of the battle that opened the last Allied campaigns on the Western Front.

October 5, 2018 CN Editorial Team

‘Weeping Window’ poppy display opens at IWM London

The final presentation of the Tower of London WW1 Centenary poppies tour is under way at the Imperial War Museum.

October 6, 2018 CN Editorial Team

Islay marks centenary of HMS Otranto tragedy

The loss of a First World War troopship carrying American soldiers to Europe in October 1918 has been remembered on the Hebridean island of Islay.

October 9, 2018 CN Editorial Team

‘Great War Symphony’ receives world premiere

‘The Great War Symphony’ – a new choral work written for the close of the WW1 Centenary by British composer Patrick Hawes – is being given its world première at the Royal Albert Hall, London, tonight (October 9).

October 10, 2018 CN Editorial Team

Scuttle of the German fleet in Scapa Flow – November conference in Orkney

International historians will discuss the impact and legacy of the sinking of Germany’s First World War surface fleet, at a conference in Orkney in November 2018.