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Poignant sound of whistles heard as tributes paid to the 20,000 British soldiers killed on the first day of the Battle of the ...
Cumbria’s Museum of Military Life in Carlisle Castle is set to host a talk about demobilised soldiers who returned home after the First World War.
Explore the history of the Princess Mary Christmas gift box, a brass or silver tin containing gifts intended for all members of the armed forces of the British Empire on Christmas Day 1914 during ...
The Queen's College, Oxford University can add five new names of soldiers who did not fight for the British forces to its WW1 memorial.
A war weapon used in World War One went on to become a key component in treating blood cancer with chemotherapy ...
This day set a bloody precedent: the Somme campaign wore on for five months and, in all, more than a million soldiers from the British, German and French armies were wounded or killed.
The remains of a World War One soldier that were found during building work in France have been laid to rest. Serjeant Henry Ashton from Derbyshire was killed aged 44 in 1917, during an operation ...
The winter school holidays will mean families across Aotearoa New Zealand will be looking for indoor activities to entertain ...
The Israel Defence Forces were formed by uniting Zionist paramilitary groups, WWII veterans and Holocaust survivors ...
With both libretto and music written by Dame Gillian, the chamber opera tells the true WWI story of the heroism and ...
Readers have voted this 1929 war novel as the best of its genre. All Quiet On The Western Front, written by Erich Maria Remarque, a German veteran of the First World War, has been selected by ...