Memorials – Page 55 – First World War Centenary News Archive

April 13, 2017 CN Editorial Team

Battle of Arras/Vimy Ridge Centenary – Dawn tribute to tunnellers

Arras and Vimy Ridge hosted a day of commemorations on 9 April 2017 bringing together the nations who fought in the Allies’ first concerted Western Front offensive of 1917.

April 20, 2017 CN Editorial Team

Centenary project to honour the Chinese Labour Corps

A new project in the UK aims to raise awareness of the 96,000 Chinese workers who supported British forces during the Great War.

April 23, 2017 CN Editorial Team

UK & Ireland to share Messines Centenary remembrance

Britain and Ireland are to hold a joint tribute to soldiers from nationalist and unionist traditions who fought side by side at the Battle of Messines in the summer of 1917.

May 2, 2017 CN Editorial Team

Australian Memorial Garden opens in Passchendaele

The latest commemorative garden to open at the Passchendaele Memorial Park in Belgium honours Australian soldiers of the Great War.

May 6, 2017 CN Editorial Team

Centenary tribute to mine-sweeping trawler crew

A ceremony has been held on England’s south coast to commemorate 10 crewmen of the trawler HMT Arfon, lost on mine-sweeping duties in April 1917.

May 8, 2017 CN Editorial Team

Cambrai tank veteran ‘Deborah’ prepares for Centenary move

A British tank discovered under the battlefields of Cambrai is about to start its final journey to a new museum opening for the November 2017 Centenary.

May 12, 2017 CN Editorial Team

‘Shrouds of the Somme’ appeal for 2018 Armistice Centenary

A crowd funding campaign has been launched to display a British artist’s poignant tribute to the fallen of the Great War in London for the November 2018 Armistice Centenary.

May 21, 2017 CN Editorial Team

100 Years Ago: Commonwealth War Graves Commission founded

The Imperial War Graves Commission – later renamed the Commonwealth War Graves Commission – was created by Royal Charter on 21 May 1917 to remember the Great War dead of Britain and its Dominions in perpetuity.

May 23, 2017 CN Editorial Team

CWGC opens ‘For Then, For Now, Forever’ Centenary exhibition

An exhibition marking the Centenary of the Commonwealth War Graves Commission has opened at Brookwood Military Cemetery, CWGC’s largest site in the UK.

May 28, 2017 CN Editorial Team

Researchers win Centennial tribute for lost US WW1 sailor

As America marks Memorial Day this Monday (May 29), Great War researchers have won recognition for a sailor missing from the roll of honour, reports Patrick Gregory.