The Centenaries of the Battles of Verdun and the Somme were marked at this year’s Armistice Day commemorations held by the French Embassy in London.
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Poppies & Poems screened onto Big Ben for Remembrance Sunday
Falling poppies, coupled with war poems, were projected onto Big Ben in the latest of the UK Parliament’s WW1 Centenary tributes on Remembrance Sunday.
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100 Years Ago: Battle of the Somme ends
The Battle of the Somme drew to a close on 18 November 1916 after more than four months of fighting, and more than a million casualties on all sides.
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Somme Centenary – Battle’s End poppy tribute in Folkestone
Hundreds of metal poppies were ‘planted’ in the former WW1 Channel port of Folkestone on 19 November to mark the conclusion of the Battle of the Somme 100 years ago.
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‘Shrouds of the Somme’ – Artist’s Centenary tribute in Bristol
As the 2016 Somme commemorations draw to a close, Centenary News finds the public deeply moved during another display of the ‘Shrouds of the Somme’ installation following its July debut in Exeter.
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Book Review – HMS Hampshire: a Century of Myths and Mysteries Unravelled
‘Meticulous and enthralling’ – CN Editor Peter Alhadeff on this centenary account of the naval disaster that claimed the lives of Britain’s War Minister Lord Kitchener and most of the crewmen on a Royal Navy cruiser in 1916.
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Oxford seminars to explore ‘how we can best commemorate war’
Leading figures from the arts and politics will discuss post-war commemoration and reconciliation at a series of seminars in 2017-18, Oxford University announces.
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100 Years Ago: Lloyd George becomes UK Prime Minister
David Lloyd George took office as British Prime Minister on 7 December 1916, replacing Herbert Asquith who resigned amid criticism of his war leadership.
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Execution of first British officer in WW1 – December 10 1916
Second lieutenant Eric Poole, shot by firing squad on 10 December 1916, was the first British army officer to be executed in the Great War, despite evidence of shell shock.
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WW1 Centenary Year 2016 – Remembered in Centenary News pictures
Pictures taken by the Centenary News team recall some of the many events over the past year, marking First World War anniversaries from 1916.
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