Read more about local WW1 centenary projects and events
This page contains links to stories about World War One Centenary projects and events that have been taking place in Bath and North East Somerset. Click on the individual links to read more.
December 2018
Keynsham Scouting groups attend Remembrance Parade in record numbers
Keynsham in Bloom delighted with community efforts and enthusiasm to create Centenary displays
Former employees from Fry's gather to honour factory workers who served in the First World War
Local residents share their family stories and photos for oral history commemorative project
Compton Dando residents of all ages take part in Remembrance activities
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November 2018
Bath-born soldier commemorated in Danny Boyle's Pages of the Sea Remembrance project
Remembrance Ceremony photos in Bath Chronicle
We Shall Remember Them - centenary feature in Bath Chronicle part 3
White poppy wreath laid by Quakers is taken from Bath War Memorial within a day of being laid
Photos of Remembrance Ceremony at Bath War Memorial
Free First Bus travel to attend ceremonies, services and parades on 11 November
Somer Squadron (Air Cadets) create a poppy cascade
Performance by commemorative choir is among Keynsham's Remembrance events
New novel based on a true family story from World War One
Remembering grandfather, Edwin Brooks, with pride
We Shall Remember Them - centenary feature in Bath Chronicle part 2
Remembrance special in Midsomer Norton, Radstock and District Journal
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October 2018
Special event planned by local campaigner to be hosted by Bath City FC on 10 November
We Shall Remember Them - centenary feature in Bath Chronicle part 1
Details of local Armistice and centenary events announced
Final WW1 poetry event takes place on 31 October
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September 2018
Last chance to see local WW1 Remembered exhibition
Goldies WW1 project is a winner in the National Lottery Awards 2018
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July 2018
Local campaigner in Twerton plans local commemoration and gets knitting
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April 2018
Bath War Memorial repairs before Armistice Day centenary commemorations
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November 2017
Streets named in honour of World War One servicemen at Mulberry Park
Remembrance services and parades in the area
World War One Discovery Day in Bath
Voices 1917 - commemorative poetry and music performance
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September 2017
Repairs planned for Bath War Memorial
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August 2017
Local teenager attends Passchendaele commemoration in Belgium
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July 2017
Remembering the local men who fell at Passchendaele
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June 2017
Review of 'Birdsong' by Next Stage Theatre Company at the Mission Theatre
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April 2017
St Mark's pupils report back on Battlefield tour
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February 2017
Queen Square transformed into World War One Hospital
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November 2016
Remembering Bath soldier killed on last day of the First World War
Images and comments from Armistice and Remembrance events in 2016
Milsom Place decorated with giant poppies in aid of the Poppy Appeal
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October 2016
Battle of the Somme film screenings taking place across the district
World War One exhibition at Keynsham Library
Act of Remembrance marking the end of the Battle of the Somme
Bath's Mayor encourages people to sign up as poppy-sellers
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September 2016
Firs Field event marks award of Centenary Field status
August 2016
Swainswick school children forge iron poppies for new Ypres First World War memorial
Bath Postal Museum wreck mail exhibition
July 2016
Former Bath nurse speaks of uncle who died at the Battle of the Somme
100 years on Bath family remember relatives who fought and died at the Somme
Mayor of Bath commemorates former Mayor's suffering caused by Battle of the Somme
Bathford Society remembers Somme casualties from the community (continues on second page)
June 2016
Bath War Hospital intergenerational art project at the Royal United Hospital
May 2016
What stories lie behind war names on Weston war memorial?
April 2016
Tales of Old Bailbrook - First World War conscription
Weston Heritage Day commemorates the centenary of the opening of Bath War Hospital
Recalling Bath War Hospital at Weston Heritage Day
March 2016
Film screening of community play which honoured local First World War contribution
Fred Weatherly, songwriter of Roses of Picardy and Danny Boy, was a Bath man
November 2015
Writhlington School stages First World War drama written by Year 10 student
St Saviour's Junior pupils plant tree in memory of pupils and Headteacher lost in WW1
GWR Engine named in honour of Last Tommy Harry Patch
Photo gallery of Remembrance Parade in Bath
Pitman Press war memorial returned to Bath
Family effort to clean Twerton War Memorial
'Poetry 1915' evening in Bath on Tuesday 10 November
Dedication of the Field of Remembrance in Abbey Churchyard, Bath
Bath Abbey watches over Field of Remembrance
Remembrance Day plans for Bath
Services around Bath on 11th November 2015
Blind veteran from Peasedown St John to join march at cenotaph in London
Campaign brings 113 volunteer sellers to Poppy Appeal
October 2015
St Saviour's School pupils to plant commemorative oak tree
Radstock Museum stages Oliver Brooks exhibition
Paulton remembers World War One hero - report and picture gallery
Victoria Cross of local war hero remembered 100 years to the day with commemorative stone in Paulton
Talk about Oliver Brooks, VC, at Midsomer Norton Town Hall
September 2015
Firs Field in Combe Down granted 'Centenary Field' status
August 2015
Chippenham Museum seeks information about Unity and Loyalty War Hospital
July 2015
Archive project uncovers poignant First World War letters to Mayor of Bath
Oldfield Park Junior School mounts World War One exhibition to honour fallen pupils
Shoscombe Primary School dress up, sing and welcome 'Goldies' for First World War event
Local hero's bravery to be remembered at events in Paulton and Midsomer Norton
Midsomer Norton make plans to celebrate local Victoria Cross recipient
May 2015
Appeal for film of Bath and North East Somerset dating from 1914-1918
April 2015
Mayor visits 'Letters from the Deep' World War One exhibition at Bath Postal Museum
February 2015
Review of 'When You See' by David Thomson - play about First World War poet C.H. Sorley
November 2014
Knitted poppies to decorate Council offices in November 2014
Special poppy sash created for Chair of Council
Beechen Cliff School commemorate World War One heroes with dramatic presentation
Eighty young people mark centenary with 'The Eleventh Hour' theatre project in Bath
Keynsham Air Training Corps - photos from Remembrance Day Parade in Keynsham
'Last Tommy' Harry Patch remembered at former school in Combe Down, Bath
Bath Poetry Cafe present evening of poetry from 1914, 11 November 2014
New website tells stories of lost World War One servicemen from Oldfield Park
Year 10 pupil is a winner in Wilfred Owen Association International Poetry Competition
Bath schools and groups commemorate WW1 centenary in 2014 Remembrance events
St Andrew's Primary School in Bath create Remembrance poppy field on site of bombed church
Beechen Cliff and King Edward's School cadets take part in Remembrance Sunday parades
Prior Park College Remembrance service marks WW1 Centenary
Pupils at Kingswood School in Bath remember soldiers lost in World War One
Remembrance Sunday ceremony at Radstock War Memorial
Remembrance Sunday ceremony at Bath War Memorial
Beechen Cliff school pupils visit graves of relatives lost in World War One
Remembrance Day 2014 events in the West
WW1 centenary commemorative plaque unveiling at Guildhall in Bath
Earlier stories
World War One heroes added to Bath Ancestors Database
Celebrating the bravery in 1915 of Oliver Brooks, VC
The Great War in Costume - exhibition at the Assembly Rooms
WW1 Remembered - exhibition of local memories and stories at Bath Central Library
Centenary Civic Event in Bath marking the day war broke out, 4 August 2014
Memories of war nurses feature in centenary civic event
Poetry by young people commissioned for civic event
'Doubly Thankful Village' memorial stone laid in Woolley
Footage shows visitors at the Roman Baths during the war years
Events held in the West to mark the centenary of the outbreak of war
Year 9 KIngswood pupils visit World War One battlefields
Paragon School pupils dress up for special commemorative day
Candlelit Vigil at Bath Abbey marking the centenary of the day war started, 4 August 2014
Carpenters' hidden record of War on display at the Holburne Museum in Bath
Oldfield Park Junior School war memorial history project
Poppy planting across the district by Council's Parks team to mark centenary
Centenary exhibition opens at Museum of Bath at Work
Poppies planted by schoolchildren in Weston
World War One paintings Trail by Paulton Junior School children
Lights Out in Paulton - First World War vigil
Midsomer Norton honours Victoria Cross hero
Radstock War Memorial rededicated to mark the centenary of the outbreak of War
Medal found - search for descendants of Great War hero
Hero's family found! Medal to be donated to military museum
Quakers hold launch event in Bath for the 'White Feather Diaries' social media project
It's a long way to Tipperary: special Somer Valley FM broadcast to mark centenary
Researchers in Weston search for families of local war heroes
Charlcombe appeal for families of WW1 heroes
Claverton appeal for stories of local war heroes
Poppies planted in Peasedown St John to mark centenary
Thankful villages of Woolley and Chelwood visited on bike tour
How Oliver Brooks won his Victoria Cross
