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Remembrance Day: five beautiful novels about war commemoration

Every autumn, the UK participates in an astonishing commemorative practice: the annual charity drive of the Poppy Appeal. From its origins during the first world war to the purple poppy commemorating animals in wartime, the artificial poppy has become a fragile but enduring symbol of remembrance.

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Medals of First World War flying ace to be auctioned

Captain Solomon Clifford Joseph scored at least 13 victories in the final months of the conflict.

The Independent UK

Alice Winn wins 2023 Waterstones debut fiction prize for In Memoriam

Novel described as ‘truly stunning feat of fiction’ tells love story of two first world war soldiers

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First World War soldier finally laid to rest more than 100 years after his death

The remains of Private Robert Kenneth Malcolm were identified by DNA after it was found 102 years after he died in 1917

The Independent UK

Princess Royal reopens newly renovated WW1 ship in Belfast

Anne officially reopened a First World War ship in Belfast that has been newly restored after a three year closure due to the pande

The Independent UK

Country diary: Private Archibald Browne is remembered

Ingatestone, Essex: First world war ‘deserters’ are mostly not commemorated with their name in stone. This remote churchyard contains an exception

The Guardian - UK

Remembering when a German Zeppelin dropped a bomb on Edinburgh's Royal Infirmary

The bomb fell on Edinburgh's Royal Infirmary during an air raid that was co-ordinated and executed by First World War German naval forces. 13 people died during the attack on April 2 1916.

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East Lothian clip shows iconic First World War aircraft driven through streets

Volunteers have been working on the historic Sopwith 1 1/2 Strutter aircraft for over two decades and have finally sent the plane off for testing at an RAF base in West Lothian.

Edinburgh Live

Family's delight as relic hunter unearths relative's war badge and tracks them down

Metal detectorist found First World War badge and then used online communities to locate the soldier’s surviving relatives so he could return it to them

Daily Mirror

Why All Quiet on the Western Front should win the best picture Oscar

Gut-churning battlefield realism and the unfamiliar German perspective take this powerful first world war film outside the usual war movie territory

The Guardian - UK

Russia 'resorting to First World War-style attacks' in Ukraine, says Defence Secretary

Amid mounting pressure on the West to supply Kyiv with fighter jets, Defence Secretary Ben Wallace warned that even if the UK agreed to send British warplanes 'tomorrow' it would take 'months' to train Ukrainian pilots to fly them

Daily Mirror

‘First World War-like’ conflict to continue in Ukraine throughout 2023, say western officials

West believes a ‘grinding conflict’ of heavy fighting will carry on throughout the year

Evening Standard

M Degas Steps Out: An Essay by Philip Hoy review – an artistic encounter across a century

A nine-second 1915 film of the painter Edgar Degas inspires a beguiling meditation on life in Paris during the first world war

The Guardian - UK

The World and All That It Holds by Aleksandar Hemon review – an engrossing epic

Opening in Sarajevo as the first world war is triggered, this magnificent globe‑trotting, century-spanning novel mingles fact with the fabulous

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The Standard View: After tanks decision, it’s now a race against time for Ukraine

The tank transformed how wars are fought — and won. They were developed to end the stalemate of trench warfare in the First World War and have played a key role in countless conflicts since.

Evening Standard

2,300-year-old mummy named ‘Golden Boy’ digitally unwrapped

He was initially discovered at a cemetery in southern Egypt during the First World War in 1916

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French nun, world's oldest person, passes away after 118 years

Lucile Randon was born in southern France on 11 February 1904, a decade before the outbreak of the First World War. She died peacefully in her sleep earlier this week.

The Guardian - UK

French city believes Madonna may own artwork lost in war – and asks for loan

Amiens mayor wants singer to lend Jérôme-Martin Langlois painting after it went missing in first world war

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Christmas in wartime: how Britain coped with the 'bleak midwinter' of 1942

On Christmas Eve 1942, the Manchester Guardian recalled that the first world war had only lasted four Christmases. Now, Hitler’s war also had “four to its discredit, each one more austere than its predecessor”. Christmas 1942 would be a sadly pared-back affair. Cards were tiny and printed on thin card.…

The Independent UK

Network of First World War training trenches among sites added to heritage list

Two Victorian cabmen’s shelters were also listed at Grade II along with an 18th-century watermill drawn by the famous landscape artist John Constable.

Evening Standard

Putin is losing the ground war, but Europe must dig in for the economic battle

There is more than one front in Europe’s almost 10- month-long war. The first is in the mud, where the worst trenches and dugouts in Eastern Ukraine are starting to bear more than a passing resemblance to scenes from the First World War. The second can be seen from space:…

The Guardian - AU

Salonika Burning by Gail Jones review – wartime novel feels miraculously fresh

Jones takes four famous figures who served in Thessaloniki during the first world war and imagines how their stories could have overlapped

Glasgow Live

Glasgow Lord Provost appeals for public help to find out more about war hero grandfather

Councillor Jacqueline McLaren is desperate to find out if any photographs exist of her maternal grandfather Private Allan Hannah McIlvennie who served with the Cameron Highlanders during the First World War.

Daily Mirror

Inside Kherson war trenches as Ukrainians find 'cannon fodder' Russians left behind

At one freshly-dug First World War-style trench, just over a mile from Russian positions, Major Nazar, 38, with the 63rd Mechanised Brigade told the Mirror they come up against Russian conscripts

The Independent UK

In Pictures: Armistice Day marked with two-minute silence

The country fell silent at 11am to mark the anniversary of the end of the First World War.

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