United Kingdom – Page 114 – First World War Centenary News Archive

June 15, 2017 CN Editorial Team

CWGC given €3.9m to restore Flanders cemeteries

The Flanders Government is giving the Commonwealth War Graves Commission more than €3.9 million towards restoration projects at 24 cemeteries in the Ieper (Ypres) area.

June 15, 2017 CN Editorial Team

Remembering 18 London children killed in 1917 air raid

Queen Elizabeth and Germany's Ambassador to the UK attended commemorations in London on 15 June 2017 marking the centenary of a First World War air raid which left 18 schoolchildren dead.

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June 15, 2017 CN Editorial Team

Remembering 18 London children killed in 1917 air raid

Queen Elizabeth and Germany's Ambassador to the UK attended commemorations in London on 15 June 2017 marking the centenary of a First World War air raid which left 18 schoolchildren dead.

June 29, 2017 CN Editorial Team

New memorial honours African & Caribbean troops of both World Wars

A monument unveiled in London last week finally honoured the many thousands of servicemen and women from African and Caribbean countries who fought for Britain in the First and Second World Wars.

July 3, 2017 CN Editorial Team

Cork conference recalls US Navy in Ireland during WW1

International scholars gather at University College Cork this week for a public conference marking the centenary of the US Navy’s First World War deployment to Ireland.

July 5, 2017 CN Editorial Team

100 Years Ago: King George’s Fund for Sailors founded

Seafarers UK, a charity created as King George’s Fund for Sailors during the First World War to help seafarers’ families in need, marks its Centenary today (5 July 2017).

July 10, 2017 CN Editorial Team

100 Years Ago: HMS Vanguard blast kills more than 840

Commemorations have been held in Orkney to remember those lost when the British battleship, HMS Vanguard, blew up and sank on 9 July 1917.

July 14, 2017 CN Editorial Team

‘Lest We Forget’ – Oxford campaign to save WW1 stories for future generations

An Oxford University team is leading a UK-wide drive to find and conserve First World War photos, letters and mementos beyond the close of the Centenary in 2018.

July 16, 2017 CN Editorial Team

New ‘War Horse’ reading for 2017 Ypres/Passchendaele Centenary

Author Michael Morpurgo will read a new short story in Ypres on Sunday 30 July at the start of commemorations for the Third Battle of Ypres/Passchendaele.

July 17, 2017 CN Editorial Team

UK sites protected in memory of New Zealanders lost at Messines

Two monuments commemorating New Zealand’s WW1 soldiers have been protected on the advice of conservationists Historic England to mark the June 2017 Battle of Messines Centenary.