Folkestone WW1 memorial arch:

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For many of the millions of servicemen making their way to the trenches of World War I it was the last part of Britain they stepped foot on.

The steep downhill road in Folkestone, now named Road of Remembrance, led to the boats waiting to take the troops across to France.

As part of plans to mark the centenary of the outbreak of the war an arch will be built at the top of the hill.

LINK: www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-22892729

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Commemorations marking the centenary of the First World War will last five years and cost £50million. They will include:

£5.3million to allow children and teachers from every secondary school to visit battlefields such as the Somme, Verdun and Fromelles.

National commemorations on August 4, 2014, to recall the first day of the conflict, including candlelit vigil at Westminster Abbey, Commonwealth Service at Glasgow Cathedral and an event at the St Symphorien Military Cemetery in Mons, Belgium.

There will also be major events on July 1, 2016, to remember the first day of the Somme; and in 2018 to mark the centenary of Armistice Day.
£15million in grants from the Heritage Lottery Fund to support events across the country. Ideas include friendly football matches to mark the 1914 Christmas Day truce on the Western Front.

A £5million contribution to the £35million redevelopment of the Imperial War Museum’s First World War galleries.

A £1million grant to secure the future in Belfast of HMS Caroline, WW1’s last surviving warship.

Visit by David Cameron and Irish taoiseach Enda Kenny to the Belgian battlefields where 27,000 Irishmen in the British forces died.

LINK: www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2338728/World-War-One-centenary-Candlelit-vigil-100-years-lamps-went-outbreak-WWI.html#ixzz2W0zVqJse