United Kingdom – Page 117 – First World War Centenary News Archive

September 6, 2017 CN Editorial Team

14-18 NOW opens global campaign to map Tower Poppies online

Owners of the ceramic Tower of London poppies are invited to ‘pin’ their current locations to a digital map for a new project launched by UK First World War Centenary arts programme, 14-18 NOW.

September 8, 2017 CN Editorial Team

Tyne Cot soldiers’ names to be lit in Passchendaele Centenary tribute

Organisers of an evening of music and reflection commemorating the Battle of Passchendaele are seeking participants to help illuminate the event at Tyne Cot Cemetery in Belgium.

September 17, 2017 CN Editorial Team

SS Mendi bell displayed on Isle of Wight this week

The bell from SS Mendi, the ship sunk in 1917 with the loss of more than 600 black South African troops, is being temporarily displayed on the Isle of Wight from September 25-29.

October 3, 2017 CN Editorial Team

19 First World War soldiers buried at Commonwealth cemetery in Belgium

Nineteen soldiers of the British Army who fell on the battlefields of Flanders have been laid to rest at New Irish Farm CWGC cemetery near Ypres.

October 9, 2017 CN Editorial Team

Call to sow ‘Ribbon of Poppies’ for 2018

Hundreds of pledges have been received in support of a call to sow swathes of poppies for the final year of the First World War Centenary.

October 12, 2017 CN Editorial Team

Centenary conference to explore legacy of Mata Hari

100 years after Mata Hari’s execution for spying, experts reassess her notoriety at an international symposium taking place at City, University of London on October 28.

October 17, 2017 CN Editorial Team

‘Away from the Western Front’ seeks musical recruits for new WW1 song

A newly-composed song, reflecting the bitterness felt by West Indian troops at the end of the Great War, is being added to the familiar repertoire, with an invitation to perform it.

October 20, 2017 CN Editorial Team

‘Beyond the Battlefields’ – Käthe Buchler’s Photographs of Germany in the Great War

The work of a German photographer who focussed her camera on the home front is being displayed for the first time outside Germany, at twin UK exhibitions in Birmingham.

October 31, 2017 CN Editorial Team

100 Years Ago: Battle of Beersheba opens Allied way to Palestine

Allied fortunes in the Sinai campaign turned following the arrival of a new commander, and victory at Beersheba on 31 October 1917, writes Major Paul Knight.

Author: Paul Knight

October 31, 2017 CN Editorial Team

100 Years Ago: Battle of Beersheba opens Allied way to Palestine

Allied fortunes in the Sinai campaign turned following the arrival of a new commander, and victory at Beersheba on 31 October 1917, writes Major Paul Knight.