IT was in this week of 1889 that one of the most heroic soldiers of the First World War was born. John “Jock” MacGregor is often hailed as ...
The US Army's early attempt to create an armored vehicle fell short. See images of the flawed but influential Holt hybrid ...
Valérie André, a French aviator and parachutist who became the first woman to become a general officer in France, has died ...
I recently studied World War I in the Middle East through the book by Lawrence of Arabia, and then in East Africa through a ...
With excerpts from Doug Warren’s Memoirs KAWARTHA LAKES-Doug Warren was born on July 16, 1916 at Fenelon Falls, Ontario. As he was coming into the world, six thousand kilometers away, the British Army ...
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The First day of the Somme (1916)
British soldiers moved across no man's land, on the 1st of July at 7:30 in the morning. They were soon hit by machine guns ...
The number of military cemeteries brought tears to my eyes. All contained the remains of the young men from foreign lands who ...
Paul Goffin has spent much of his adult life solemnly remembering the American Army Soldiers who fought to free his home ...
More than 1,700 Black South African servicemen who died in non-combat roles on the Allied side during World War I and have no ...
Charles was also shown a kilt worn by a soldier wounded in the Somme which has been untouched for decades during a visit to ...
King Charles III was shown a family heirloom in the form of a kilt and met a D-Day veteran during his Aberdeen visit ...
King Charles has hailed a 99-year-old D-Day veteran as a "great example to us all" during a visit to a Scots military museum.