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WWI memorial sites bid for World Heritage status

French and Belgian WWI memorial sites bid for UNESCO World Heritage status

24/06/2018

Portugal

Portuguese film pays tribute to a WWI hero

Portuguese cinema pays tribute to their greatest hero of World War I, soldier Anibal Augusto Mihais, nicknamed ‘Soldier Millions’, which is the name of the film. In April 1918, while his companions were all killed or wounded, remained in his trench fighting the Germans.

10/04/2018

France

Portugal relives day of WWI horror in worst-ever defeat

President Macron attends ceremony to assure EU partner Portugal of France's undying thanks for their sacrifice in the failed 1918 German Spring offensive.

09/04/2018

Estonia

Estonia celebrates 100th birthday

Baltic State was once part of Russian empire, but is now in NATO and the EU.

24/02/2018

France

France & Germany open new WWI memorial

Site commemorates start of hostilities and key objective that cost tens of thousands of lives.

10/11/2017

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WW1 battle victims remembered a centenary on

Politicians, royalty and relatives gathered in western Belgium to pay tribute to the victims of a World War One battle.

31/07/2017

Canada

Battle of Vimy Ridge remembered

A sunset ceremony has been held in northern France to launch commemorations for the centenary of the Battle of Vimy Ridge.

09/04/2017

France

Europe falls silent to commemorate the centenary of the Battle of the Somme

Thousands fall silent to mark 100 years since the start of the Battle of the Somme, one of the bloodiest conflicts in European history.

01/07/2016

World News

France marks Battle of Verdun centenary

France has been marking the centenary of the World War I Battle of Verdun. A re-enactment of the conflict featured the sound of shellfire. The

21/02/2016

United Kingdom

How Remembrance Day poppy pins came to be

In the UK and Canada many wear red poppies on their jackets and clothing to commemorate Remembrance Day. Why do members of the public do this an how did the tradition start?

09/11/2015

Turkey

Ceremony in Turkey marks 100 years since Gallipoli August offensive

A ceremony attended by the Australian Governor General Peter Cosgrove has been held in Turkey to mark the 100th anniversary of the August offensive

07/08/2015

Italy

"Moments of Life": memoirs of a WW1 Italian General

22/05/2015

Turkey

Moving ceremonies to mark centenary of the Gallipoli campaign

Ceremonies mark the 100th anniversary of one of the bloodiest battles of World War One

25/04/2015

Turkey

Gallipoli still teaching us brutality of war

A poem in Turkish on a Gallipoli hillside tells the traveller to ‘behold a place where an age went down… Listen to the silence where a nation’s heart

22/04/2015

World News

British and German troops hold commemorative football match to mark 1914 Christmas truce

British and German troops have marked the anniversary of the World War One Christmas truce when 1914 soldiers are said to have stopped fighting and

18/12/2014

United Kingdom

Gallery: See the stunning poppy tribute to mark WW1 centenary

03/11/2014

My Europe Series

Europe Weekly: EU's action on Ebola

31/10/2014

France

1914: the war-time death of French writer Charles Péguy, my great grandfather

02/09/2014

Turkey

WWI: The Gallipoli Campaign

15/08/2014

Russia

WWI: The Eastern Front

15/08/2014