As a young British Army officer heading for Afghanistan, Barney Campbell visited the Dardanelles, scene of one of the First ...

Three decades after the Armistice, William Symons VC had continued to experience the effects of his war. Isabel was forced to sell her husband’s medals due to financial strain in the 1960s but the ...

An enthusiastic group of around 200 students and community members recently enjoyed learning about the largest Black military unit in Canadian history.

This is the second adaptation of Sebastian Faulks’s unforgettable novel Birdsong, adapted by Rachel Wagstaff and directed by Alastair Whatley. Faulks ...

Crystal Palace’s very last match at its old home was a friendly against Arsenal on 7th August 1970, over 108 years after we played our first recorded match there, against Forest F.C., in 1862.

And, he was still wearing a wedding ring. The ring was inscribed with his wedding date — Dec. 25, 1908 — and the body was identified as a German soldier from World War I, researchers said, confirmed ...

She was the first woman to fly rescue missions in a combat zone, in Indochina and Algeria. She was also the first Frenchwoman ...

Every war begins in blind folly and ends in unimagined suffering. This is true of all wars but especially of the First World ...

Lieutenant Edward Packe flew over the Western Front battlefield in a two-seater BE2c biplane at 7.30am on July 1, 1916. He was shot in the buttocks by a German fighter at 2,000ft.

This is another Military Tale from World War I; this one is from France and shows the fortitude of the fighting men.

Since Queen Victoria instituted the Victoria Cross in 1856, five American-born men have received Britain’s highest military ...

We all know the stories of the horror of trench warfare in the First World War. Waves of soldiers clambering out of their trenches into a hail of gunfire and nests of barbed wire strewn across ...