1918 rifle salute added poignancy to Armistice event Armistice Day ceremonies across France last November were particularly poignant, as they marked the centenary of the day the guns fell silent.
B&B with WW1 garden trench Some people joke about living on the front line. When Avril Williams says that, she means it literally.
Was UK represented at Paris Armistice event? A reader asked if the UK government sent someone to the commemoration of the 1918 Armistice in Paris yesterday - the Embassy has clarified.
news World War I: Four wartime inventions we know today As France remembers the Armistice of the First World War, four objects that were invented during the time of the trenches - objects that are still used today - have also being recognised.
Rural France to ring bells for historic WWI Armistice Rural mairies across France are being invited to ring all the bells in their village at 11h today (Sunday November 11) to commemorate the 100th anniversary of the 1918 First World War Armistice.
Digital image reveals 'Unknown Face' of WWI Image will evolve as more photographs are added to the digital database, which already features tens of thousands of pictures
Pétain will not be honoured at Les Invalides ceremony Elysée Palace and government move to cool controversy over President's comments
Cornflower bleuets for French Remembrance Volunteers across France are raising funds for wounded military personnel, widows and war orphans by selling blue flowers ahead of November 11 commemorations
WWI soldiers to be buried 101 years after they died Descendants of two Australian soldiers killed in May 1917 will attend ceremony at cemetery where bodies of their comrades in arms are already buried
Peace and reconciliation focus of Armistice centenary A total 60 heads of state expected to attend Paris ceremony
Doyen des poilus went off to First World War at 76 The statue in Auxerre town centre honours a simple soldat but an unusual man – Charles Surugue, the oldest French soldier in the First World War.
France’s forgotten rival to Lawrence of Arabia His name is little known in histories of the First World War but Colonel Edouard Brémond has a claim, as Michael Delahaye says, to be France’s Lawrence of Arabia
France honours its war heroes with cornflower blue A bloom of a different hue honours the memory of the French nation's war dead
Apply to attend special war commemoration People with an ‘emotional connection’ to the Battle of Amiens or generally to the war on the Western Front in 1918 are invited to apply for tickets for a special commemoration on August 8.
French hikers honour Canadian soldiers killed at Vimy Ridge Group retrace the steps of miner who fought and died with 10,600 others for France Labrador Tag Feed Labrador Tag Feed Labrador Tag Feed Labrador Tag Feed Labrador Tag Feed
