France – Page 26 – First World War Centenary News Archive

March 21, 2016 CN Editorial Team

Somme Centenary – 2016 cultural programme at Péronne WW1 museum

Conferences focussing on the German occupation of the Somme and France’s role in the 1916 offensive feature in a centenary cultural programme organised by the Museum of the Great War, Péronne.

March 22, 2016 CN Editorial Team

Somme Centenary – CWGC update on visiting Thiepval, June-July 2016

Access to the Thiepval Memorial will be restricted over the immediate Somme Centenary period, the Commonwealth War Graves Commission announces.

April 18, 2016 CN Editorial Team

Centenary tribute to America’s WWI pilots in France – April 20

As the US and France prepare for a rededication ceremony to mark the centennial of a group of American pilots entering the First World War, Patrick Gregory looks back at the impact of the volunteer airmen.

April 18, 2016 CN Editorial Team

Centenary tribute to America’s WWI pilots in France – April 20

Author: Patrick Gregory

April 20, 2016 CN Editorial Team

WW1 Australian hospital sketches revealed in France

Previously unpublished portraits of Australian and British soldiers have been released online in a centenary tribute to the Allied forces who fought in France during the First World War.

May 2, 2016 CN Editorial Team

Somme motorway break for battlefield photo exhibition

A Somme motorway service area is the latest destination for photographer Michael St Maur Sheil’s centenary touring exhibition, Fields of Battle – Lands of Peace 14-18.

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

Canada’s Vimy Oaks returning to France for 2017 Centennial

A project is under way in Canada to ‘repatriate’ descendants of French oak trees for the centenary commemorations of the Battle of Vimy Ridge in 2017.

May 16, 2016 CN Editorial Team

100 Years Ago: The Sykes-Picot Agreement

Britain and France concluded a secret deal in May 1916 for dividing the Middle East between them after the defeat of the Ottoman Empire.

May 29, 2016 CN Editorial Team

French & German leaders in Verdun for Centenary

President François Hollande and the German Chancellor, Angela Merkel, lead France’s official commemorations today (May 29th 2016) marking the Centenary of the Battle of Verdun.