France – Page 34 – First World War Centenary News Archive

February 13, 2018 CN Editorial Team

France invites New Zealanders to create Le Quesnoy peace garden

New Zealand landscapers are invited to submit plans for a memorial peace garden in Le Quesnoy, the French town liberated by New Zealand troops in the last week of the First World War.

February 27, 2018 CN Editorial Team

‘Gassed’ in US Midwest debut at WWI Museum

One of the best known First World War paintings, depicting the aftermath of a gas attack, is the focus for a new exhibition at the National WWI Museum and Memorial, Kansas City.

March 9, 2018 CN Editorial Team

Doullens & London to mark Marshal Foch command centenary

Events are coming up in France and Britain on March 25/26 to commemorate the centenary of Ferdinand Foch becoming Allied commander-in-chief in 1918.

March 10, 2018 CN Editorial Team

Battle of Amiens Centenary – Ballot opens for August commemorations

A ticket ballot opens today (March 9) for commemorations in France marking the centenary of the Battle of Amiens, the UK Government announces.

March 21, 2018 CN Editorial Team

100 Years Ago: German Spring Offensive launched

German forces began a thrust across Northern France on 21 March 1918, initially threatening to overwhelm the Allies.

March 25, 2018 CN Editorial Team

Doullens on parade for Foch Centenary

Centenary News watches commemorations in the Somme town where Allied leaders took the historic decision to appoint Marshal Foch supreme commander on 26 March 1918.

March 26, 2018 CN Editorial Team

Centenary salutes to the leadership of Marshal Foch

Ceremonies have been held in both the UK and France to mark the centenary of Ferdinand Foch’s appointment as Allied Supreme Commander on 26 March 1918, at a critical moment in the Great War.

April 9, 2018 CN Editorial Team

The Defence of Givenchy – holding the German Spring Offensive, April 1918

Major Paul Knight describes how British troops of the 55th (West Lancashire) Division held the line against a German push towards the Channel ports 100 years ago.

Author: Paul Knight

April 9, 2018 CN Editorial Team

The Defence of Givenchy – holding the German Spring Offensive, April 1918

Major Paul Knight describes how British troops of the 55th (West Lancashire) Division held the line against a German push towards the Channel ports 100 years ago.

April 9, 2018 CN Editorial Team

French & Portuguese leaders mark Battle of the Lys Centenary

President Macron and his Portuguese counterpart, Marcelo Rebelo de Sousa, led tributes at Richebourg today (9 April 2018) to Portuguese soldiers who fell on the Western Front.