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Centenary News is a site covering the First World War Centenary and contains news, videos & articles. [email protected]

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100 years ago #OTD, 28 June 1919, the Versailles Treaty was signed, formally ending #WW1 between the Allied powers & Germany. It was five years to the day since Archduke Franz Ferdinand's assassination in Sarajevo triggered the conflict.
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NEW ARTICLE: "Warfare 1914-1918 (Ottoman Empire/Middle East)" by Mehmet Fatih Baş encyclopedia.1914-1918-onlin…
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The Cenotaph in Whitehall started as a temporary memorial for Britain’s #WW1 Peace Day parade in 1919. Public response led to commissioning of the permanent monument - also by architect Sir Edwin Lutyens - unveiled on Armistice Day 1920.
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Today in 1919 the Peace Day celebrations were held to celebrate the end of the First World War. They featured a Victory Parade through central London. This painting on display in @NAM_London shows some of Indian contingent, part of the 15,000 troops who took part #ww1
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Pictured in The Sphere, 19 July 1919, are the French peace celebrations, with a 'victory march' passing through the Arc de Triomph on Bastille Day bit.ly/2ObAnyP #1919Newspapers #FirstWorldWar
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Lives of WW1@LivesOfWW128 Jun 2019
The #LivesofWW1 permanent digital memorial is here! Browse and discover the millions of stories that were gathered during the centenary period: ow.ly/o56U50uP3IW #WW1
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The 'Big Four' - Prime Minister Lloyd George, Signor Orland, Monsieur Clemenceau and President Wilson are pictured together during the peace conference at Versailles, Illustrated London News, 28 June 1919 bit.ly/2XuwmbP #OTD #1919Newspapers #FirstWorldWar
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🇬🇧 A hundred years ago, the #TreatyofVersailles was signed. Archives made of photos, videos and sound...immerse yourself in History and relive June 28, 1919...: youtu.be/LwvTyTmdEkc In partnership with @GallicaBnF, @laBnF and @ArchivesnatFr.
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#1GM Un dernier article pour boucler le centenaire! Quelle aventure! Il y a 100 ans aujourd'hui, le 28 juin 1919, le traité de Versailles était signé. Il "n'est pas la cause directe et unique de la Seconde Guerre mondiale" ⏬ f24.my/59X8.T
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The @CWGC are delighted to announce the unveiling of our new visitor centre: The CWGC Experience - which has today been unveiled by HRH The Princess Royal in a ceremony at Beaurains in France. Find out more, here: ow.ly/5Mjn50uMvOd #CWGCexperience
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CWGC-Scotland@cwgcscotland21 Jun 2019
Moving service at @CWGC Lyness cemetery on Hoy to remember German casualties who died 100 years ago during scuttling of German fleet at Scapa flow Orkney . @OrkneyCouncil @RNinScotland @Volksbund
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Scapa Flow, on the centenary of the 1919 scuttle, looking over the waters where the German High Seas Fleet was interned for 7 months after the #WW1 Armistice.
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Scuttle of the German High Seas Fleet #OTD 100 years ago #WW1 - View over Scapa Flow and the Churchill Barriers, the defences built against U-boats in #WW2.
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In two weeks’ time the Commonwealth War Graves Foundation's Lest We Forget archive project draws to a close. The hundreds of stories that the CWGF, in collaboration with @UniofOxford, have collected will live on though. You can see them, here: ow.ly/Et8p50u6g78
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Looking forward to returning to Orkney for Scapa 100.
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Scapa 100 is underway... Commemorating the Centenary of the Scuttling of the German High Seas Fleet. For details see orkney.com/news/scapa-100 ::: scapa100.org ::: m.facebook.com/scapa100
Scapa Flow to take centre stage | Orkney.com

Scapa Flow to take centre stage | Orkney.com

Scapa Flow is set to be at the centre of a series of special events later this month, as the Scapa 100 programme to mark the scuttling of the German High Seas Fleet at the end of World War One is...

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Did the Treaty of Versailles lead to WW2 and was the attempt to create a new world order a failure? Professor Margaret MacMillan explores #WarHistory #History Watch in person at 6pm on Tuesday 4th June @MuseumofLondon or watch online: bit.ly/2X2JTnu
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The German graves @CWGC Lyness Royal Naval Cemetery, Orkney - photographed in June 2016. Sailors lost in the scuttling of Germany's #WW1 High Seas Fleet in Scapa Flow in June 1919 rest here, alongside Commonwealth dead of both world wars.
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Scapa 100@Scapa10024 May 2019
Five headstones of German sailors in Lyness Naval Cemetery corrected and replaced. Well done @CWGC bbc.com/news/uk-scotland-nor…
WW1 German grave mistakes corrected in Orkney cemetery

WW1 German grave mistakes corrected in Orkney cemetery

The headstones of five German sailors are replaced after mistakes were discovered in their inscriptions.

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Scapa 100@Scapa10022 May 2019
Commemorating the Centenary of the Scuttling of the German High Seas Fleet... Scapa 100 Events Programme available on OIC website: orkney.gov.uk/Service-Direct… See also Facebook page: m.facebook.com/scapa100 And scapa100.org/
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Coming up, a two-day conference in Paris reflecting on the #WW1 Centenary commemorations.
Mission Centenaire (@Mission1418) profile pictureMission Centenaire@Mission141817 May 2019
La Mission du centenaire de la Première Guerre mondiale en partenariat avec la Bibliothèque nationale de France @laBnF organise les 20 et 21 juin deux journées de rencontres pour évoquer le cycle commémoratif du centenaire de la Grande Guerre centenaire.org/fr/en-france/…
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