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Shaping the First World War commemorations

Posted by: Sue Owen, DCMS Permanent Secretary, and Civil Service LGB&TI Champion, Posted on: 11 November 2016 - Categories: Civil Service Leaders
Poppies falling in front of First World War memorial at Ypres

Sue Owen reflects on the part her department plays in organising the national commemorations for those who have died for the country in armed conflict.

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Remembering the fallen of the Somme

Posted by: Adam Lilley, Posted on: 12 July 2016 - Categories: Our Civil Service
Men in WWI uniforms at a station

DWP's Adam Lilley describes how he and hundreds of other volunteers commemorated the centenary of the first day of the Battle of the Somme.

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Remembering the civil servants who fell in the First World War

Posted by: Simon Holder and Russell Barnes, Posted on: 11 November 2015 - Categories: Our Civil Service
Memorial column, with urn atop, flanked by two flags, and arch, part of Somerset House, behind

...of Cambrai, where it suffered heavy casualties. It was again in action on the Somme in 1918, and its final engagement of the war was at Tournai in Belgium in...

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We shall remember them

Posted by: Sir Nicholas Macpherson, Posted on: 10 November 2014 - Categories: Civil Service Leaders

Sir Nicholas Macpherson, Permanent Secretary at HM Treasury talks about the important role the Civil Service played in the First World War.

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Understanding the cost of WW1 on a CSSC trip to Flanders

Posted by: Sean Armstrong and Russell Barnes, Posted on: 13 August 2014 - Categories: Our Civil Service
poppies on a WW1 german gravestone

...Britain, France and Belgium - planted with care along the roads travelled by pilgrims today. The flowers really bought home the cost of the war. Try to see each flower...

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