United Kingdom – Page 107 – First World War Centenary News Archive

October 6, 2016 CN Editorial Team

CWGC highlights ‘forgotten’ Salonika Front

A remembrance service has been hosted by the Commonwealth War Graves Commission in Greece as part of a joint effort with the British Embassy in Athens to raise awareness of those lost in the Salonika campaign.

October 7, 2016 CN Editorial Team

Tower of London Poppies – 2017 UK display dates

Six venues have been chosen to host the next displays of the touring poppy installations, Wave and Weeping Window, the UK’s First World War Centenary arts programme, 14-18 NOW, has announced.

October 13, 2016 CN Editorial Team

CWGC launches Somme battlefield guide

Centenary News reports from an event at the Canadian High Commission in London, marking publication of the Commonwealth War Graves Commission’s Somme Battlefield Companion.

October 13, 2016 CN Editorial Team

‘The Price of a Mile’ – Anaesthesia during the Battle of the Somme

The Price of a Mile, an exhibition honouring doctors who gave anaesthesia and pain relief to wounded soldiers on the Somme, opened at the Anaesthesia Heritage Centre in London with a lecture by military medical historian Dr Emily Mayhew.

End Date: 13 Oct 2016

October 15, 2016 CN Editorial Team

Leicester University remembers fallen soldier commemorated with its founding

Archive material has uncovered one of the stories that inspired Leicester University’s foundation as a ‘living memorial’ to the dead of the First World War.

October 20, 2016 CN Editorial Team

Munitions site protected in tribute to women killed in WW1 blast

The UK Government has protected the site of a First World War munitions factory in Leeds where 35 women were killed in an explosion in December 1916.

October 29, 2016 CN Editorial Team

‘France at War’ – Kipling reports from the Front, 1915

Collector Andy Moreton delves into his prized copy of a book of reports from the Western Front by the British writer Rudyard Kipling.

Author: Andy Moreton

October 29, 2016 CN Editorial Team

Tag: United Kingdom

CWGC highlights ‘forgotten’ Salonika Front

Tower of London Poppies – 2017 UK display dates

CWGC launches Somme battlefield guide

‘The Price of a Mile’ – Anaesthesia during the Battle of the Somme

Leicester University remembers fallen soldier commemorated with its founding

Munitions site protected in tribute to women killed in WW1 blast

‘France at War’ – Kipling reports from the Front, 1915

‘France at War’ – Kipling reports from the Front, 1915

Update on ‘Far From the Western Front’ – exhibition focussing on South Asia’s soldiers

Armistice Day 2016: Remembering the Somme, Verdun and Jutland