Tag: First World War

• Monday, November 12th 2018 - 08:48 UTC

  Royal Family and thousands commemorate end of the First World War

  

  Queen Elizabeth and members of the Royal Family joined thousands of people on Sunday to commemorate the centenary of the end of the First World War, as part of the traditional National Service of Remembrance. . A two-minute silence was held at 11am and wreaths laid at the Cenotaph to commemorate the servicemen and women killed in all conflicts from the First World War onwards.

• Saturday, November 10th 2018 - 08:34 UTC

  Why did Christians support the First World War?

  

  One of the most difficult challenges for contemporary British Christians as we approach Remembrance Sunday is to understand why the Christians of a century ago were in general so hugely supportive of Britain's engagement in the Great War.

• Monday, November 5th 2018 - 08:37 UTC

  Tower of London lit by flames to mark the centenary of the end of the First World War

  

  Some 10,000 flames were lit at the Tower of London to mark the centenary of the end of the First World War. Yeoman Warders, also known as Beefeaters, who have all served in the military, and representatives from the armed forces, started the process of lighting the flames at a ceremony on Sunday.

• Thursday, August 9th 2018 - 12:08 UTC

  Allies commemorate the centenary of the Battle of Amiens in France

  

  Members of the Armed Forces have led the UK and its allies in commemorating the centenary of the Battle of Amiens at an event in France on Wednesday. The Battle of Amiens was a major engagement in the First World War.

• Friday, December 8th 2017 - 14:47 UTC

  Battle Day marked in the Falkland Islands 103 years on

  

  Residents of the Falkland Islands annually mark one of the early major naval battles of the First World War, which took place off the coast of the Islands. This year the event was commemorated with a traditional parade, made up of Members of the Falkland Islands Defence Force.

• Saturday, July 29th 2017 - 12:55 UTC

  Century anniversary of the Third Battle of Ypres, remembered for the scale of casualties

  

  Next 31 July 2017 will mark a century since the beginning of the Third Battle of Ypres – widely known as Passchendaele. The UK Government, in collaboration with the Belgian Government, the Commonwealth War Graves Commission, and the Royal British Legion is hosting a series of events to mark one of the defining battles of the First World War.

• Tuesday, December 16th 2014 - 17:58 UTC

  Moving Centenary Tribute to Capital's Heroes of the World War One

  

  A commemoration of Edinburgh’s own heroes of the First World War – including a professional footballer with Hearts who was killed in action on the Somme – has taken place at Waverley Station today (Tuesday 16 December 2014).

• Monday, December 8th 2014 - 23:25 UTC

  Commemoration Service for Battles of Coronel and the Falklands at London's St Martin-in-the-Fields

  

  The first two significant naval battles of the First World War were commemorated in London and the Falklands in parallel church services on the 8th December – a hundred years after these momentous events took place.

• Saturday, June 28th 2014 - 01:49 UTC

  Falklands vessels with flags at half-mast in remembrance of World War I

  

  Falklands' Master Malcolm Jamieson has requested that vessels in Falklands harbours and Falklands registered vessels at sea, lower flags or ensigns to half-mast on Saturday 28 June to indicate mourning in remembrance of World War I.

• Tuesday, November 15th 2011 - 20:40 UTC

  Falklands turns out for Remembrance Day and to honour Islanders killed in active service

  

  Last Sunday was Remembrance Sunday, the nearest Sunday to Armistice Day, the anniversary of the ending of the First World War, which came at the 11th hour of the 11th day of the 11th month in 1918.