Memorials – Page 63 – First World War Centenary News Archive

March 26, 2018 CN Editorial Team

Centenary salutes to the leadership of Marshal Foch

Ceremonies have been held in both the UK and France to mark the centenary of Ferdinand Foch’s appointment as Allied Supreme Commander on 26 March 1918, at a critical moment in the Great War.

April 4, 2018 CN Editorial Team

War Memorials ‘listed’ for RAF Centenary

Fourteen war memorials have been newly listed or upgraded for conservation by the UK Government to mark the 100th birthday of the Royal Air Force.

April 6, 2018 CN Editorial Team

Zeebrugge Centenary – Dover events

In the UK, the 100th anniversary of the Zeebrugge Raid will be marked with special events in Dover on April 23.

April 9, 2018 CN Editorial Team

French & Portuguese leaders mark Battle of the Lys Centenary

President Macron and his Portuguese counterpart, Marcelo Rebelo de Sousa, led tributes at Richebourg today (9 April 2018) to Portuguese soldiers who fell on the Western Front.

April 12, 2018 CN Editorial Team

Final ‘100 Cities/100 Memorials’ US Centennial awards announced

Fifty more memorials in US cities commemorating America’s Great War dead have been officially designated, and awarded grants, as national ‘WW1 Centennial Memorials’.

April 23, 2018 CN Editorial Team

Zeebrugge honours fallen of 1918 naval raids

Centenary News watched Zeebrugge’s commemorations marking the 100th anniversary of the British naval attacks targeting German First World War U-boat operations in Flanders.

April 24, 2018 CN Editorial Team

Dover salutes courage of the Zeebrugge Raid

Centenary News rounds off coverage of the 2018 Zeebrugge Raid Centenary events with a report from Dover’s commemorations marking the 100th anniversary of the strikes against German U-boat bases.

April 24, 2018 CN Editorial Team

Blankenberge’s tribute to George Nicholson Bradford VC

The family of Lt Cdr George Bradford – one of the only pair of brothers both to receive the Victoria Cross in WW1 – have expressed their ‘heartfelt thanks’ for a new memorial to him in Flanders marking the Zeebrugge Raid Centenary.

May 3, 2018 CN Editorial Team

Stars & Stripes return to Islay, 100 years on

An American flag made by Scottish islanders to honour US soldiers of the Great War who perished in a U-boat attack has travelled back to Islay for international commemorations taking place on Friday (May 4).

May 4, 2018 CN Editorial Team

Navies pay combined tribute to ‘Tuscania’ and ‘Otranto’ off Islay

Scotland’s commemorations for the American and British dead of the WW1 troopships SS Tuscania and HMS Otranto got under way with tributes at sea by the British, US, French and German navies.