United Kingdom – Page 99 – First World War Centenary News Archive

April 11, 2016 CN Editorial Team

Shell shock on the Somme – Centenary News speaks to Taylor Downing, author of ‘Breakdown’

Centenary News’ Books Editor, Eleanor Baggley, talks to Taylor Downing about Breakdown, his new book focusing on ‘the Crisis of Shell Shock on the Somme’, and how it challenged preconceived notions of mental illness.

April 13, 2016 CN Editorial Team

Actor Hugh Dennis joins CWGC call to remember war dead commemorated in UK

Centenary News reports from the launch of a Commonwealth War Graves Commission initiative encouraging the British public to explore ‘forgotten’ memorials in the UK during the Somme Centenary.

April 17, 2016 CN Editorial Team

Jutland Centenary website launches video exploring 1916 battle

Nick Jellicoe, grandson of the British commander-in-chief at Jutland, narrates a new video describing key episodes in the biggest naval battle of the First World War.

April 19, 2016 CN Editorial Team

‘Changing the Landscape’ – artist’s personal quest for great uncle killed on the Somme

Centenary News visits artist Sarah Kogan’s exhibition telling the story of her great uncle who fell on the first day of the Battle of the Somme.

April 21, 2016 CN Editorial Team

Jellicoe family items for display at UK navy museum’s Jutland exhibition

Uniform and medals belonging to Admiral Sir John Jellicoe, British commander at the Battle of Jutland, will go on display as part of the National Museum of the Royal Navy’s forthcoming centenary exhibition.

April 22, 2016 CN Editorial Team

IWM focus on historic Somme film for 2016 Centenary

The pioneering documentary,The Battle of the Somme, is at the centre of Imperial War Museums’ events marking the centenary of the 1916 offensive.

April 23, 2016 CN Editorial Team

100 Years Ago Today: Easter Rising starts in Dublin

Republican groups launched a revolt against British rule in Ireland on Easter Monday 1916 (April 24th), seizing a number of key buildings in Dublin.

April 24, 2016 CN Editorial Team

Six British WW1 soldiers reburied in Ypres

Six British soldiers have been reburied at a Commonwealth cemetery in Ypres, more than 100 years after they fell in Flanders during the First World War.

April 25, 2016 CN Editorial Team

Ceremonies mark Centenary Anzac Day

The Centenary Anzac Day was marked on April 25th 2016 with traditional dawn services and remembrance ceremonies in Australia, New Zealand, Britain, France, Ireland, Belgium and at Gallipoli itself.

April 27, 2016 CN Editorial Team

Centenary update: Jutland debate postponed at UK Navy Museum

A Battle of Jutland debate – scheduled for May 9th 2016 at the National Museum of the Royal Navy, Portsmouth – has been postponed.