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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.

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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

First world war

1918 rifle salute added poignancy to Armistice event

B&B with WW1 garden trench

Was UK represented at Paris Armistice event?

World War I: Four wartime inventions we know today

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