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The First World War in the news - May 2008

Fromelles dig finds WWI grave site
ABC Online – Australia
An excavation in north-eastern France has uncovered a mass grave where up to 170 Australian soldiers were buried in World War I. On the night of July 19,

Dig starts at WWI grave site
ABC Online – Australia
Archaeological experts in France will today begin digging at a World War I site in the country’s north to find the remains of 400 Australian and British

Memorial Day, the Great War, and America’s Last Surviving World
Such coverage in the United States has been thin at best, and echoes of the First World War remain distant – as they have traditionally been – in American public memory. How the centenary anniversary of the war will play out in the

WWI, the forgotten war
Philadelphia Daily News – Philadelphia,PA,USA
Americans should rediscover and try to learn more about World War I. Unlike WWII, Vietnam and Korean war vet, the WWI veterans are no longer able to speak

Last Known Surviving US WWI Vet To Visit KC
KMBC.com – Kansas City,MO,USA
KANSAS CITY, Mo. — The last known surviving American veteran of World War I will visit the Liberty Memorial over the Memorial Day weekend.

Christopher Nevinson: He Gained a Fortune but He Gave a Son (1918)
Independent – London,England,UK
He Gained a Fortune but He Gave a Son was painted at the end of the First World War. It depicts a sad and hatless plutocrat. The title tells the story.

Football stopped slaughter
Manchester Online – Manchester,UK
IT is an incident that, amid all the horror of the First World War trenches, still lifts the spirits with its simple and touching humanity.

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