A two-minute silence and special ceremony are being held for Victory over Japan Day to mark the end of World War Two in the Pacific.

Jim Wren was a 21-year old Royal Marine from Sussex. Just days after the Pearl Harbour attack, he was on board the battle ...

James ‘Jim’ Wren survived the sinking of HMS Repulse in December 1941 after it was torpedoed in the South China Sea.

The Duchess of Edinburgh took on her busiest print of 2025 as she stepped out to meet a WW2 veteran on Tuesday ahead of VJ ...

O ne of the oldest surviving veterans of World War II has told the Duchess of Edinburgh about his experience being held as a ...

The battleship HMS Prince of Wales and the battlecruiser HMS Repulse were sunk by the Japanese three days after Pearl Harbor, and more than 840 men were lost.

The HMS Repulse, which was sunk in Dec. 1941 off Malaysia, has recently been targeted by pirates looking for scrap metal. (The Print Collector/Print Collector/Getty Images) ...

However, the battleship HMS Prince of Wales and battlecruiser HMS Repulse, which were sailing without air escort, sank 61 nautical miles off the coast of Kuantan on Dec 10, 1941 after intense air ...

The battleship HMS Prince of Wales, back left, and the battlecruiser HMS Repulse, next to it, after they were hit by Japanese torpedoes off the eastern coast of British Malaya in 1941.

The battlecruiser HMS Repulse was an unreconstructed veteran of World War I, but possessed sufficient speed to keep up with Prince of Wales.

Rear Admiral Guy Griffiths (Ret’d), aged 101, was the last survivor in Australia of HMS Repulse, which was torpedoed and sunk in a Japanese air attack in 1941, along with the Prince of Wales off ...