Memorials – Page 10 – First World War Centenary News Archive

December 21, 2013 CN Editorial Team

German War Graves Commission plans youth exchange programme with Italy for Centenary

The German War Graves Commission is planning a “youth exchange” programme for Germans and Italians, focusing on Germany’s largest First World War PoW camp.

December 30, 2013 CN Editorial Team

Campaign for statue of Canadian General Sir Arthur Currie to mark Centenary receives funding boost

A campaign to erect a statue of the first Canadian general to lead Canadians in the First World War has received a $50,000 boost.

January 2, 2014 CN Editorial Team

Australia’s fallen remembered in an English country churchyard

Inspired by a call to remember the Commonwealth dead of the First World War buried in the UK, Centenary News’ Peter Alhadeff visited Wiltshire.

Author: Peter Alhadeff

January 2, 2014 CN Editorial Team

Australia’s fallen remembered in an English country churchyard

Inspired by a call to remember the Commonwealth dead of the First World War buried in the UK, Centenary News' Peter Alhadeff visited Wiltshire.

January 23, 2014 CN Editorial Team

Britain’s National Army Museum starts Centenary project to honour the “forgotten” casualties of both World Wars

The National Army Museum in London has appointed two expert researchers to help honour unrecorded casualties of the First and Second World Wars.

January 29, 2014 CN Editorial Team

Petition to honour executed nurse Edith Cavell on UK Centenary coin passes 50,000 names

Almost 51,000 people have now backed a campaign to have the executed British nurse, Edith Cavell, honoured on a £2 coin commemorating the First World War Centenary.

January 31, 2014 CN Editorial Team

Statue in honour of ‘In Flanders Fields’ poet to be erected in Ottawa to mark Centenary

An initiative by the Royal Regiment of Canadian Artillery will see a statue of the First World War soldier, physician and poet, John McCrae, erected in Ottawa, Canada.

February 7, 2014 CN Editorial Team

British and German ambassadors visit Saint-Symphorien cemetery near Mons ahead of Centenary

The British and German ambassadors to Belgium have visited Commonwealth War Graves Commission St Symphorien Military Cemetery near the city of Mons.

February 10, 2014 CN Editorial Team

American art historian sets out to locate First World War memorials across the country

An article in The Washington Post highlights the work of art historian Mark Levitch to locate First World War memorials across the United States, in a project he calls the World War I Memorial Inventory Project.

February 12, 2014 CN Editorial Team

First Minister of Wales unveils design for First World War memorial in Belgium

First Minister Carwyn Jones has unveiled the design of a new memorial to commemorate Welsh soldiers who fought during the First World War.