United Kingdom – Page 119 – First World War Centenary News Archive

November 29, 2017 CN Editorial Team

Scotland honours pioneering WW1 doctor Elsie Inglis

Tributes are being paid to the doctor who defied disapproval to set up hospitals, staffed by women, to treat wounded soldiers in France and the Balkans.

December 2, 2017 CN Editorial Team

Military Wives Choirs campaign to record 2018 Centenary album

More than 70 British Military Wives Choirs are uniting with military bands from all three services to record a new album commemorating the end of the WW1 Centenary in 2018.

December 8, 2017 CN Editorial Team

First US WW1 destroyer loss commemorated for Centenary

Britain’s Maritime Archaeology Trust is telling the story of USS Jacob Jones, torpedoed on 6 December 1917 in the southwest approaches to the English Channel.

December 11, 2017 CN Editorial Team

100 Years Ago: Jerusalem falls to British-led forces

General Sir Edmund Allenby entered Jerusalem on 11 December 1917 after a six-week campaign against the Ottomans in Palestine, as Major Paul Knight explains.

Author: Paul Knight

December 11, 2017 CN Editorial Team

100 Years Ago: Jerusalem falls to British-led forces

General Sir Edmund Allenby entered Jerusalem on 11 December 1917 after a six-week campaign against the Ottomans in Palestine, as Major Paul Knight explains.

December 18, 2017 CN Editorial Team

WW1 memorials built in 1917 ‘listed’ for conservation

Eight memorials dedicated to the dead of the Great War in 1917 have been newly listed for preservation in their centenary year by the UK Government.

December 29, 2017 CN Editorial Team

‘Making a New World’ – 2018 Centenary events coming up at IWM

As well as displaying the Tower of London Poppies, Imperial War Museums announce they will also hold a programme of special events in 2018 to close their First World War Centenary commemorations.

December 30, 2017 CN Editorial Team

Final Tower Poppies tour venues named

Six cities are to host the Tower of London Poppies in 2018, the last year of their UK tour marking the First World War Centenary.

December 31, 2017 CN Editorial Team

2018 Events – ‘Shrouds of the Somme’ in Armistice Centenary tribute

British artist Rob Heard is individually stitching more than 72,000 shrouded figures to mark the 100th anniversary of the Armistice ending the First World War.

January 2, 2018 CN Editorial Team

Focus on Armistice Centenary – Mons 2018

Two days of commemorations are planned in Mons on November 10 & 11 to mark the centenary of the Belgian city’s liberation at the very end of the First World War.