Memorials – Page 62 – First World War Centenary News Archive

February 8, 2018 CN Editorial Team

Update on Islay’s Tuscania centenary tribute

People on the Hebridean island of Islay gathered on February 5 for the first in a series of events in 2018 commemorating First World War tragedies on their shores a century ago.

February 12, 2018 CN Editorial Team

New Cambrai tank museum opens, March 2018

A museum built to mark the Battle of Cambrai Centenary will open to the public on March 15, with the British tank Deborah as its centrepiece.

February 13, 2018 CN Editorial Team

France invites New Zealanders to create Le Quesnoy peace garden

New Zealand landscapers are invited to submit plans for a memorial peace garden in Le Quesnoy, the French town liberated by New Zealand troops in the last week of the First World War.

February 28, 2018 CN Editorial Team

WW1 ‘Tommies’ launch final year Centenary campaign

Life-size figures of British soldiers are appearing as part of a new charity art project -There But Not There – commemorating the 2018 centenary of the end of the First World War.

March 6, 2018 CN Editorial Team

Lookahead to the Royal Air Force Centenary

A mass flypast, 100-day baton relay and the unveiling of new galleries at the RAF Museum, Hendon, are among events coming up to mark the 100th birthday of Britain’s Royal Air Force.

March 9, 2018 CN Editorial Team

Doullens & London to mark Marshal Foch command centenary

Events are coming up in France and Britain on March 25/26 to commemorate the centenary of Ferdinand Foch becoming Allied commander-in-chief in 1918.

March 10, 2018 CN Editorial Team

Battle of Amiens Centenary – Ballot opens for August commemorations

A ticket ballot opens today (March 9) for commemorations in France marking the centenary of the Battle of Amiens, the UK Government announces.

March 13, 2018 CN Editorial Team

New memorial to British West Indies Regiment on Sussex coast

Soldiers from the West Indies who volunteered to serve Britain in WW1 have been commemorated with a Nubian Jak Community Trust blue plaque in Seaford, where their regiment was formed in 1915.

March 15, 2018 CN Editorial Team

Tributes paid to the Chinese Labour Corps at Shorncliffe

Commemorations honouring the Chinese Labour Corps have been held on the Kent coast as part of a WW1 Centenary programme raising awareness of the CLC’s support for the British war effort.

March 25, 2018 CN Editorial Team

Doullens on parade for Foch Centenary

Centenary News watches commemorations in the Somme town where Allied leaders took the historic decision to appoint Marshal Foch supreme commander on 26 March 1918.