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Royal Mail issues First World War Centenary stamps
UK postal service the Royal Mail has announced plans to issue a series of commemorative stamps each year from 2014 to 2018 to mark the Centenary of the First World War. The set will feature 30 stamps, with six being … Continue reading
Exhibition focuses on Artists Rifles in the First World War
Artworks produced by members of the Artists Rifles – 28th (County of London) Battalion of The London Regiment – will be the focus of touring exhibition in Hampshire this April focused on the Centenary of the First World War. The … Continue reading
Posted in Events, News
Tagged Artists Rifles – 28th (County of London) Battalion of The London Regiment, Centenary of the First World War, events, Gosport Discovery Centre, Hampshire, Imperial War Museum, news, Sainsbury Gallery, Southampton City Art Gallery, UK News, Willis Museum, WW1
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German War Graves Commission launches WW1 website
The Volksbund Deutsche Kriegsgräberfürsorge (VDK) – the German War Graves Commission – has launched a Centenary website. It features information and projects relating to the Centenary of the First World War. The site also enables visitors to search for the … Continue reading
Album of flowers collected on Western Front to be auctioned
A soldier’s album, filled with pressed flowers collected by during his time at the Front during the First World War, is to be auctioned in Dorchester, Dorset. The unique record was almost lost forever when it was thrown into a … Continue reading
Posted in News, World War I memoirs
Tagged auctions, Dorchester, Dorset, Duke's Auctioneers, First World War Centenary, memorabilia, news, UK News, World War I, WW1
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Family recovers medals of Australian Aboriginal soldier
The family of an Australian Aboriginal soldier who was killed during the First World War have been reunited with his war medals. Private Arthur Walker’s great-grandson, John Lochowiak, was given the medals by a relative after she saw him at … Continue reading
Exhibition focuses on Gordon Highlanders in the First World War
An exhibition focusing on the Gordon Highlanders and their experience during the first months of the First World War has opened at the regiment’s museum in Aberdeen. Shattered Hopes: The Gordon Highlanders in 1914 follows the unit throughout the battles … Continue reading
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Tagged 1914, Aberdeen, Belgium, Captain James Brooke, Centenary of the First World War, Christmas Truce, events, Flanders, France, Gordon Highlanders, Le Cateau, Mons, news, Scotland, UK News, VC, Victoria Cross, Ypres
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WW1 Centenary exhibition at Jewish Museum in Vienna
On 3 April the Jewish Museum in Vienna will open an exhibition focused on the Centenary of the First World War entitled Doomsday – Jewish Life and Death in World War I. The show considers how the First World War … Continue reading
Real World War I casualty figures may be much higher, says historians
More soldiers may have died in World War I than official records show and the numbers of veterans suffering shell shock was also hugely underestimated, suggest two leading historians. Antoine Prost, professor of history at the University of Paris, says … Continue reading
Archive lists Irish casualties of World War I
An archive that lists the 49,000 soldiers from the island of Ireland who died during World War I or as a result of wounds sustained during battle has been made available to the public. The archive, entitled Ireland’s Memorial Records, … Continue reading
More controversy shrouds the UK’s commemoration of World War I as government ministers are accused of playing down the role of Australian and New Zealand soldiers in favour of the contribution from ‘New Commonwealth’ nations. The Daily Telegraph reports that … Continue reading
First World War Centenary, 1914-1918 