Memorials – Page 60 – First World War Centenary News Archive

November 8, 2017 CN Editorial Team

Remembering cricketer Colin Blythe – Killed in Flanders 100 years ago

CN contributor Andy Moreton pays tribute to the champion cricketer, Colin Blythe, on the centenary of his death in the Great War.

Author: Andy Moreton

November 10, 2017 CN Editorial Team

CWGC launches new charity ‘bridging generation gap’ in remembrance

The Commonwealth War Graves Commission is embarking on a new venture, encouraging young people to take forward remembrance of the dead of both world wars.

November 14, 2017 CN Editorial Team

US digs in for start of ‘long overdue’ WW1 National Memorial in Washington

The new US National World War I Memorial has taken a significant step forward, with a ground-breaking ceremony to get the project under way in the nation’s capital.

November 18, 2017 CN Editorial Team

Battle of Cambrai Centenary events get under way

A surviving Great War tank has been the focus for a remembrance service in the UK town of Ashford, as Cambrai Centenary commemorations start in Britain and France this weekend.

November 20, 2017 CN Editorial Team

Cambrai Centenary – tank tribute at London’s Cenotaph

Soldiers and veterans of Britain’s Royal Tank Regiment paraded before a replica Mark IV tank at the Cenotaph in tribute to their predecessors who fought at the Battle of Cambrai 100 years ago.

November 22, 2017 CN Editorial Team

Cambrai tank veteran ‘Deborah’ keeps vigil in new home

A first glimpse of the Battle of Cambrai veteran Deborah in her final resting place, 100 years after she fought in the first mass tank attack.

November 29, 2017 CN Editorial Team

Scotland honours pioneering WW1 doctor Elsie Inglis

Tributes are being paid to the doctor who defied disapproval to set up hospitals, staffed by women, to treat wounded soldiers in France and the Balkans.

December 3, 2017 CN Editorial Team

WWI veteran USS Texas battles for survival

Campaigners are urgently appealing for support to save the last surviving American battleship of both world wars from the scrapyard, reports Patrick Gregory.

Author: Patrick Gregory

December 3, 2017 CN Editorial Team

WWI veteran USS Texas battles for survival

Campaigners are urgently appealing for support to save the last surviving American battleship of both world wars from the scrapyard, reports Patrick Gregory.

December 8, 2017 CN Editorial Team

First US WW1 destroyer loss commemorated for Centenary

Britain’s Maritime Archaeology Trust is telling the story of USS Jacob Jones, torpedoed on 6 December 1917 in the southwest approaches to the English Channel.