Paul Kendall reports for Centenary News on events in France marking the 100th anniversary of the Battle of the Aisne, where trench warfare started in September 1914.
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London ‘Battle Bus’ leaves for Centenary Western Front tour
London Transport Museum’s restored First World War bus has set off on a tour of the former battlefields of Flanders and France.
Continue readingCentenary update: London ‘Battle Bus’ at the Last Post in Ypres
London Transport Museum’s 1914 ‘Battle Bus’ took part in the Last Post ceremony at the Menin Gate, Ypres, on September 20th 2014 as part of its Centenary tour.
Continue readingWar Graves Commission founder Fabian Ware remembered with Blue Plaque
Sir Fabian Ware, founder of the Imperial War Graves Commission, has been honoured today (September 25th 2014) with the unveiling of an English Heritage blue plaque at his former London home.
Continue reading‘Light Front 14’ – Torchlight remembrance of the Western Front in Belgium
Thousands of flaming torches will light up the former Western Front in Belgium on October 17th 2014, commemorating the line as it stood 100 years ago.
Continue readingAntwerp builds Centenary pontoon bridge to mark 1914 siege
The 100th anniversary of the siege of Antwerp is being marked with the opening of a peace bridge across the River Scheldt on October 3rd 2014.
Continue readingHuman chain to remember France’s ‘forgotten front’
A human chain will line up across former battlefields in Northern France on October 18th 2014 to highlight a ‘forgotten front’ of the First World War.
Continue readingCentenary update: overwhelming interest in Antwerp’s pontoon bridge
Tens of thousands of people crossed a pontoon bridge in Antwerp, opened from October 3rd-5th 2014 to mark the 100th anniversary of the city’s First World War siege.
Continue readingFour Canadian soldiers who fell in France in 1918 identified
The remains of four Canadian First World War soldiers found in France have been identified after eight years of painstaking research.
Continue readingFirst World War ‘Race To The Sea’ British soldiers to be reburied
Fifteen British soldiers are to be reburied at a Commonwealth cemetery in France on October 22nd 2014, a century after they were killed in fighting near the Belgian border.
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