How Jan. 27 came to be International Day of Commemoration in Memory of the Victims of the Holocaust
A historian of the Holocaust and curator of the Auschwitz exhibition, now in Toronto, invites all who gather on Jan. 27 to ...
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Heroic soldier in First World War two nations can be well proud of
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 ...
See photos of America's failed attempt to create a tank out of a tractor
The US Army's early attempt to create an armored vehicle fell short. See images of the flawed but influential Holt hybrid ...
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Coloma discovery 177 years ago triggered the great migration
The scenery in itself makes it a classic Sunday — or Saturday — drive as you pass through or by historic mining towns such as ...
Valérie André, aviator and parachutist who became France’s first female general, dies aged 102
Valérie André, a French aviator and parachutist who became the first woman to become a general officer in France, has died.
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Grant McGuire: World War I's Western Front begat modern warfare
I recently studied World War I in the Middle East through the book by Lawrence of Arabia, and then in East Africa through a ...
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Rob Warren And Wayne Hutchinson Remember Doug Warren
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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At Vimy Ridge, we went looking to find the graves of our great uncles
The number of military cemeteries brought tears to my eyes. All contained the remains of the young men from foreign lands who ...
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Belgian veteran remembers US Army's WWII sacrifice
Paul Goffin has spent much of his adult life solemnly remembering the American Army Soldiers who fought to free his home ...
1,772 Black servicemen who died in WWI were ignored in South Africa. At last they are being honored
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 ...
D-Day veteran, 99, is ‘great example to us all’, King says
Charles was also shown a kilt worn by a soldier wounded in the Somme which has been untouched for decades during a visit to ...
'Long time no see': The surprise greeting for King Charles III from a Scottish D-Day veteran
King Charles III was shown a family heirloom in the form of a kilt and met a D-Day veteran during his Aberdeen visit ...