Memorials – Page 24 – First World War Centenary News Archive

October 13, 2014 CN Editorial Team

£92,000 UK lottery grant announced for project remembering Edith Cavell

The story of the executed First World War Nurse, Edith Cavell, is to be told by the Cavell Nurses’ Trust with a grant totalling almost £92,000 from the UK Heritage Lottery Fund.

October 14, 2014 CN Editorial Team

Poet Andrew Motion to read at Leeds University Centenary commemorations

The former UK Poet Laureate, Sir Andrew Motion, will be taking part in events marking the First World War Centenary at Leeds University on October 22nd 2014.

October 15, 2014 CN Editorial Team

Ireland to take part in UK Cenotaph service on Remembrance Sunday

The Irish Government will a wreath for the first time at the Cenotaph Remembrance Sunday ceremony in London on November 9th 2014.

October 17, 2014 CN Editorial Team

Update on ‘Light Front’- tonight’s torchlight Western Front commemoration in Belgium

More details have been released of ‘Light Front’ – the torchlight remembrance event taking place on the former Western Front in Belgium tonight (October 17th 2014).

October 17, 2014 CN Editorial Team

Queen Elizabeth visits Tower of London’s Centenary poppies

Queen Elizabeth and the Duke of Edinburgh paid tribute to the dead of the First World War during a visit to the Tower of London’s ceramic poppy fields on October 16th 2014.

October 17, 2014 CN Editorial Team

‘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.

October 18, 2014 CN Editorial Team

Latest news from ‘Light Front’ – Belgium remembers the Centenary by torchlight

Centenary News reports from ‘Light Front’, the torchlight event in Western Flanders on October 17th 2014, remembering the First World War battles which engulfed the region 100 years ago.

October 18, 2014 CN Editorial Team

Human 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.

October 22, 2014 CN Editorial Team

Victoria Wallace becomes first woman to lead the Commonwealth War Graves Commission

Victoria Wallace became the first woman Director General of the Commonwealth War Graves Commission (CWGC) when she took up her post on October 20th 2014.

October 22, 2014 CN Editorial Team

Centenary update: 15 British soldiers being reburied in France today

Fifteen British soldiers are being reburied today (October 22nd 2014) at a Commonwealth cemetery in France, 100 years after their deaths in fighting near the Belgian border.