The Dickin Medal, also known as the animals' Victoria Cross, was awarded for bravery 54 times between 1943 and 1949: to 18 ...

NEWSLETTER (£) European leaders are still not thinking seriously enough about how peace should be made ...

Nakuru and Kisumu, Kenya – Ogoyi Ogunde belonged to a proud family. His father had carved a home for their clan out of the ...

Why the British army is so unprepared to send troops to Ukraine. Prime Minister Keir Starmer has said that Britain is “ready and willing to contribute to security guarantees to Ukraine by putting our ...

The Russo-Japanese War and the Western Front were the first major conflicts in world history in which soldiers had a better ...

More than 100,000 Indians fought for France in 1914. Ten thousand never ... Some of the letters of Indian soldiers to their families were released by the British Library, revealing their ...

Three medals awarded to the first soldier from the King's Shropshire Light Infantry 6th Battalion killed in action during the ...

British munitions factories produced over 170 million artillery shells during WW1. As trenches were very good at defending soldiers from the direct attacks of enemy soldiers, other methods for ...

The first day of the Battle of the Somme, in northern France, was the bloodiest day in the history of the British Army and one of the most infamous days of World War One. On 1 July 1916 ...

The Royal Aircraft Factory S.E.5 was developed by a team of engineers including Henry Folland, John Kenworthy, and Major ...

Depending on your perspective, German aviator and Patagonia explorer Gunther Pluschow was either phenomenally lucky, or ...

that they were without an army, and without any preparation to equip one?” Small numbers would be nothing more than a“speed-bump” against a large attack, as the British Expeditionary Force was in 1914 ...