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“There are also color photos ... into the Army as 2nd lieutenant in the Royal Artillery on October 27, 1915. In 1916, he went to the Balkans to serve in the WWI Salonika campaign, and by 1918 ...
Second Lt Barr was one of three 'unknown' British soldiers of WW1 to finally be named at a poignant ceremony in Belgium on Wednesday. The Lanarkshire Live app is available to download now.
The doughboys hated British chow (not to mention drinking tea instead of coffee). They got along better with the Australians, ...
Their stories were not well preserved in art or textbooks, yet recent scholarship in Concord and Lexington aims to uncover ...
BELFAST, March 28 (Reuters) - The sole British soldier charged with murder over the 1972 'Bloody Sunday' killings of 13 unarmed Catholic civil rights marchers in Northern Ireland will face trial ...
The Queen's College currently has 121 names on its World War One memorial but that omits those who did not fight for British forces ... including three German soldiers - follows a similar move ...
William Shemin was posthumously awarded the Medal of Honor nearly 100 years after his heroic actions during WWI. (Congressional ... Amid the fighting, Shemin saw a soldier cut down 150 yards ...
The body of 21-year-old Agnes Wanjiru was found in a septic tank in Kenya close to a British Army base two months after she disappeared in March 2012. Defence Secretary John Healey met Agnes ...
On this day in 2014, two research groups were tracing their villages’ involvement in the First World War. Teams from the "Back to the Front Project," based in Abbots Langley and Kings Langley, were ...
The king of England's "Red Coat" British soldiers engaged with a motley focused group of providential farmers, shopkeepers and other colonists. This New England group vehemently opposed the ...
Army Pvt. David Moser has spent more than 100 years with a cross on his grave, despite being Jewish. Now, the fallen soldier can finally rest in peace with a Star of David on his headstone.