The Royal Family will lead the nation in the Remembrance Sunday commemorations at the Cenotaph this weekend, with events held ...
At precisely 11am, on November 11, 1918, the guns fell silent, and what was then known as the Great War came to an end. The ...
Royal Navy experts have confirmed the identity of a World War 1 wreck off the Scottish coast found in the summer as HMS Hawke.
Visitors to The Tank Museum in Bovington can see a ‘splatter’ mask belonging to Sydney Hadley, a commander in a Mark V tank during the Second Battle of Cambrai in 1918, in Tank Men, one of the ...
We went off to war, not questioning, seeing it as a louder extension of our earlier childhood games. It wasn’t.
A temporary wooden cross made for the grave of a teenage Melbourne soldier who died in northern France during World War I has ...
A gospel choir performed as part of the moving service to remember those who gave their lives for their country ...
A war hero whose act of bravery saved his battalion during World War One has had a remembrance cross planted in his honour.
THE CWGC is a global organisation, caring for war graves at 23,000 locations in more than 150 countries and territories, writes Eleanor Phillips.
Private John Joseph Collins (Image: Millie Collins) Private John Joseph Collins was born in Barry on March 1st, 1895. He joined the 16th Battalion at age 19 and survived Mametz Wood. During battle he ...
The bomber was hit by German Machine gun fire, and the wing was blown up. “There goes Hunter!” a crewman in a nearby aircraft remembers someone shouting. Other squadron crews radioed frantically for ...
May 20, 1915 was Sgt. John Muir’s last entry. He was killed in the Second Battle pf Ypres, Belgium, on May 24, 1915. This battle marked the first mass use of poison gas by the German Army.