United Kingdom – Page 125 – First World War Centenary News Archive

July 12, 2018 CN Editorial Team

UK ticket ballot launches for Centenary Armistice Day ‘People’s Procession’

Britain is inviting the public to enter a ticket ballot to march past the Cenotaph on November 11- and to take part in bell ringing – as part of events marking the 100th anniversary of the 1918 Armistice.

July 22, 2018 CN Editorial Team

100 days remembering Wilfred Owen in Shropshire

Wide-ranging commemorations for the life and work of the British First World War poet and soldier Wilfred Owen have been announced in the county of his birth.

July 23, 2018 CN Editorial Team

CWGC staff return to Iraq after 12 years

Commonwealth War Graves Commission staff have made their first working visit to Iraq since 2006 to inspect CWGC memorials and cemeteries around Basra.

July 26, 2018 CN Editorial Team

‘Making a New World’ – IWM opens final WW1 Centenary programme

A season of events exploring ‘how the First World War has shaped today’s society’ is starting at Imperial War Museums with Lest We Forget? – an exhibition at IWM North, Manchester.

July 27, 2018 CN Editorial Team

New film remembers ‘forgotten’ Salonika campaign

A newly-released short film focusses on the First World War campaign in the Balkans which drew in 600,000 Allied troops from across the globe.

July 28, 2018 CN Editorial Team

Purple Poppy appeal to commemorate WW1 horses

A million purple poppy petals have fallen from the skies of the UK, at an event launching a new appeal in memory of horses, donkeys and mules lost in the Great War.

August 1, 2018 CN Editorial Team

‘Storming the Skies’ – The First World War in Italy in photos

Centenary News toured an exhibition of photographs at the Army & Navy Club in London offering a rare glimpse, for UK eyes, of the First World War campaigns on the Italian Front.

August 9, 2018 CN Editorial Team

Royal tribute for Battle of Amiens Centenary

At this week’s centenary commemorations, the Duke of Cambridge paid tribute to Allied cooperation delivering the success of the Battle of Amiens in August 1918.

August 10, 2018 CN Editorial Team

Liverpool remembers the Chinese Labour Corps

The latest in a series of events across the UK commemorating the First World War service of the Chinese Labour Corps has been held at Anfield Cemetery, Liverpool.

August 10, 2018 CN Editorial Team

The Battle of Amiens, and what it meant for ending WW1

Dr Glyn Prysor, Chief Historian at the Commonwealth War Graves Commission – talking to Centenary News – summarises the significance of the Battle of Amiens.