United Kingdom – Page 69 – First World War Centenary News Archive

November 22, 2014 CN Editorial Team

Christmas truce: British & German schools mark Centenary with joint memorial in Belgium

A memorial to the Christmas truce, inspired by friendship between pupils from British and German schools, will be inaugurated in the Belgian town of Messines (Mesen) on December 6th 2014.

End Date: 06 Dec 2014

November 26, 2014 CN Editorial Team

Volunteers wanted to track down ‘lost’ UK Great War munitions factories

Historian and broadcaster, Dan Snow, is calling on people around Britain to help find the sites of ‘missing’ First World War munitions factories which employed thousands of women.

November 28, 2014 CN Editorial Team

‘The Unknown Warrior’ locomotive project steams towards target

A UK charity raising money to build a memorial steam locomotive has reached the £1 million mark in the Centenary year of the First World War.

November 29, 2014 CN Editorial Team

Centenary Update: UK watchdog rules out inquiry into supermarket Christmas truce advert

Britain’s advertising regulator decides there are no grounds for launching an investigation into a Sainsbury’s supermarket advert featuring the First World War Christmas truce.

December 1, 2014 CN Editorial Team

Christmas truce: countdown to Centenary events in December 2014

Centenary News previews events coming up in December 2014 to mark the 100th anniversary of the Christmas truce on the Western Front.

December 2, 2014 CN Editorial Team

Double honours for First World War soldier’s story at IWM film awards

A film re-imagining the letters sent home by a British First World War soldier as a series of tweets has won two awards at the Imperial War Museum’s 2014 Short Film Festival.

December 3, 2014 CN Editorial Team

Duke of Edinburgh opens ‘First World War in the Air’ at the RAF Museum, London

A new exhibition exploring the rapid growth of air power during the First World War was officially opened by the Duke of Edinburgh today (December 2nd 2014) at the Royal Air Force Museum in London.

December 3, 2014 CN Editorial Team

New exhibitions at Manchester Art Gallery: ‘The Sensory War’ and ‘Heaven in a Hell of War’

Two new exhibitions have been launched at Manchester Art Gallery to mark the First World War Centenary: ‘The Sensory War 1914-2014’ and ‘Stanley Spencer: Heaven in a Hell of War’.

December 3, 2014 CN Editorial Team

UK to pay back outstanding First World War debt

The British government has announced that it will repay all of the nation’s outstanding First World War debt in 2015.

December 4, 2014 CN Editorial Team

Lieutenant Frank de Pass, the first person of the Jewish faith and the first Indian Army Officer to receive Victoria Cross

On November 25 2014, UK Communities Secretary Eric Pickles joined tributes to Lieutenant Frank de Pass, the first person of the Jewish faith and the first Indian Army Officer to receive the Victoria Cross at an event in Whitehall.