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April 11, 2018 CN Editorial Team

100 Years Ago – Field Marshal Haig calls for ‘Backs to the Wall’ fight to the last

‘There is no other course open to us but to fight it out,’ British commander Sir Douglas Haig ordered on 11 April 1918, rallying his troops against fresh German advances threatening the Channel ports.

April 21, 2018 CN Editorial Team

100 Years Ago – The Royal Navy raids on Zeebrugge & Ostend

As cross-channel commemorations get under way, Centenary News reports from the Flanders coast on Britain’s daring attempt to cut off German submarine bases at a critical moment in the First World War.

April 23, 2018 CN Editorial Team

Zeebrugge honours fallen of 1918 naval raids

Centenary News watched Zeebrugge’s commemorations marking the 100th anniversary of the British naval attacks targeting German First World War U-boat operations in Flanders.

April 23, 2018 CN Editorial Team

Zeebrugge Raid Centenary events in Dover

The 100th anniversary of the Zeebrugge Raid is being marked in the UK with special events in Dover on April 23.

End Date: 23 Apr 2018

April 24, 2018 CN Editorial Team

Dover salutes courage of the Zeebrugge Raid

Centenary News rounds off coverage of the 2018 Zeebrugge Raid Centenary events with a report from Dover’s commemorations marking the 100th anniversary of the strikes against German U-boat bases.

April 24, 2018 CN Editorial Team

Blankenberge’s tribute to George Nicholson Bradford VC

The family of Lt Cdr George Bradford – one of the only pair of brothers both to receive the Victoria Cross in WW1 – have expressed their ‘heartfelt thanks’ for a new memorial to him in Flanders marking the Zeebrugge Raid Centenary.

April 25, 2018 CN Editorial Team

‘Battle for the North Sea’ exhibition in Flanders unites 11 Victoria Crosses

Centenary News tours a new exhibition in Bruges, bringing together all the Zeebrugge Raid Victoria Crosses – and highlighting both sides of the WW1 struggle between Flanders -based German submarines and Britain’s Royal Navy.

April 25, 2018 CN Editorial Team

German push halted at Villers-Bretonneux, 25 April 1918

Australian troops, supported by British units, scored a notable victory on Anzac Day 1918, halting a German advance towards Amiens with its strategically important railway junction.

May 3, 2018 CN Editorial Team

Stars & Stripes return to Islay, 100 years on

An American flag made by Scottish islanders to honour US soldiers of the Great War who perished in a U-boat attack has travelled back to Islay for international commemorations taking place on Friday (May 4).

May 4, 2018 CN Editorial Team

Navies pay combined tribute to ‘Tuscania’ and ‘Otranto’ off Islay

Scotland’s commemorations for the American and British dead of the WW1 troopships SS Tuscania and HMS Otranto got under way with tributes at sea by the British, US, French and German navies.