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

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.

[1914-1918-online @19141918online]

NEW ARTICLE: "Warfare 1914-1918 (Ottoman Empire/Middle East)" by Mehmet Fatih Baş https://t.co/KDZKG6iOmg

[Centenary News @CentenaryNews]

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.

[Peter Johnston @PeteAJohnston]

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

[The British Newspaper Archive @BNArchive]

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 https://t.co/3DJcu9vSSV #1919Newspapers #FirstWorldWar

[Lives of WW1 @LivesOfWW1]

The #LivesofWW1 permanent digital memorial is here! Browse and discover the millions of stories that were gathered during the centenary period: https://t.co/sFYn7T5OHy #WW1

[The British Newspaper Archive @BNArchive]

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 https://t.co/W5ugCcMa02 #OTD #1919Newspapers #FirstWorldWar

[Château de Versailles @CVersailles]

🇬🇧 A hundred years ago, the #TreatyofVersailles was signed. Archives made of photos, videos and sound...immerse yourself in History and relive June 28, 1919...: https://t.co/XHoWAZtYdJ
In partnership with @GallicaBnF, @laBnF and @ArchivesnatFr.

[Stéphanie Trouillard @Stbslam]

#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" ⏬ https://t.co/6oQaJPp1TW

[Commonwealth War Graves @CWGC]

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: https://t.co/iqYK8W3zcF #CWGCexperience

[Iain Anderson @IainGAnderson]

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

[Centenary News @CentenaryNews]

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.

[Centenary News @CentenaryNews]

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.

[Commonwealth War Graves @CWGC]

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: https://t.co/oELj6vlydO

[Centenary News @CentenaryNews]

Looking forward to returning to Orkney for Scapa 100.

[Scapa 100 @Scapa100]

Scapa 100 is underway...
Commemorating the Centenary of the Scuttling of the German High Seas Fleet.
For details see
https://t.co/BWkmDVCQaO
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https://t.co/dLdsjgF5J9
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https://t.co/hHRPqVUr2z

[Gresham College @GreshamCollege]

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: https://t.co/vz0Ed4OrFH

[Centenary News @CentenaryNews]

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.

[Scapa 100 @Scapa100]

Five headstones of German sailors in Lyness Naval Cemetery corrected and replaced. Well done @CWGC

https://t.co/BXjW8AXP6F

[Scapa 100 @Scapa100]

Commemorating the Centenary of the Scuttling of the German High Seas Fleet...
Scapa 100 Events Programme available on OIC website: https://t.co/Rpc8kxNKz9
See also Facebook page:
https://t.co/F7yniiuong
And
https://t.co/JLIsYp0JM5

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Coming up, a two-day conference in Paris reflecting on the #WW1 Centenary commemorations.

[Mission Centenaire @Mission1418]

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 https://t.co/ElL1NcdEEt