Germany – Page 19 – First World War Centenary News Archive

June 15, 2017 CN Editorial Team

Remembering 18 London children killed in 1917 air raid

Queen Elizabeth and Germany's Ambassador to the UK attended commemorations in London on 15 June 2017 marking the centenary of a First World War air raid which left 18 schoolchildren dead.

August 1, 2017 CN Editorial Team

Tyne Cot Centenary service remembers Passchendaele loss & sacrifice

The world’s largest Commonwealth cemetery was the setting for commemorations on 31 July 2017 honouring those who fought and died at the Third Battle of Ypres/Passchendaele 100 years ago.

August 29, 2017 CN Editorial Team

German U-boat wreck protected in the North Sea

The wreck of a German mine-laying submarine sunk in the closing stages of the First World War has been protected on the advice of Historic England.

September 4, 2017 CN Editorial Team

Call for Papers: ‘1914-1918-online’ encyclopaedia

Academics are invited to contribute articles to ‘1914-1918-online’, an international English-language reference work covering the First World War.

September 8, 2017 CN Editorial Team

Tyne Cot soldiers’ names to be lit in Passchendaele Centenary tribute

Organisers of an evening of music and reflection commemorating the Battle of Passchendaele are seeking participants to help illuminate the event at Tyne Cot Cemetery in Belgium.

October 9, 2017 CN Editorial Team

Call to sow ‘Ribbon of Poppies’ for 2018

Hundreds of pledges have been received in support of a call to sow swathes of poppies for the final year of the First World War Centenary.

October 20, 2017 CN Editorial Team

‘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.

November 7, 2017 CN Editorial Team

‘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.’

December 15, 2017 CN Editorial Team

100 Years Ago: Armistice on the Eastern Front

Russia’s new revolutionary socialist leaders agreed an armistice with the Central Powers on 15 December 1917, suspending the Great War on the Eastern Front.

February 19, 2018 CN Editorial Team

100 Years Ago: War resumes on the Eastern Front

The Central Powers drove towards Russia on 18 February 1918, following the breakdown of peace talks with the new revolutionary government.