United Kingdom – Page 106 – First World War Centenary News Archive

September 3, 2016 CN Editorial Team

100 Years Ago Today: First German airship shot down over UK

William Leefe Robinson became the first British pilot to shoot down a German airship over England in the early hours of September 3rd 1916.

September 5, 2016 CN Editorial Team

WW1 minesweeping trawler wreck protected

The ‘exceptionally well-preserved’ wreck of a trawler fitted out by the British Navy as a minesweeper during the First World War has been given special protection by the UK Government.

September 14, 2016 CN Editorial Team

Families of tank pioneers mark WW1 Tank Centenary

Descendants of soldiers who took Britain’s early tanks into battle gathered in London ahead of this week’s centenary of the first ever-tank action during the Great War.

September 15, 2016 CN Editorial Team

WW1 Tank Centenary – Tank display marks historic 1916 attack

100 years after the first tanks rolled into action, a replica First World War British tank took up positions in the heart of London for the September 15 Centenary.

September 15, 2016 CN Editorial Team

100 Years Ago: UK Prime Minister’s son killed in action

British Prime Minister Herbert Asquith suffered a personal tragedy on 15 September 1916 when his eldest son, Raymond, was killed on the Somme.

September 16, 2016 CN Editorial Team

‘The Price of a Mile’ – exhibition honouring Somme doctors

Booking is open for the London preview of a new exhibition paying tribute to doctors who administered anaesthetics and pain relief to the wounded at the Battle of the Somme.

September 26, 2016 CN Editorial Team

Lincolnshire WW1 aviation project ready for take-off with UK lottery grant

A centenary project in Lincolnshire has been awarded a £423,500 grant from the UK’s Heritage Lottery Fund for a project highlighting the county’s role in pioneering First World War aviation.

September 28, 2016 CN Editorial Team

Wreck of Jutland warship HMS Warrior found in North Sea

Marine archaeologists have discovered the last missing wreck from the Battle of Jutland, 100 years after the biggest naval clash of the First World War.

October 5, 2016 CN Editorial Team

Two unknown WW1 soldiers buried at Commonwealth cemetery in France

Two British First World War soldiers whose identities remain unknown a century after they fell have been laid to rest on the former battlefields of Loos in Northern France.

October 6, 2016 CN Editorial Team

November exhibition focuses on New Zealand brothers’ WW1 naval sketches

Rare drawings of the First World War at sea by brothers Esmond and Hal Atkinson will be displayed at an exhibition in Petone, New Zealand, from 3-23 November 2016.