L-R Dr Jon Hogg, Veteran Owen Coker, Terri Pollard. Local schoolchildren had the opportunity to meet a veteran of Britain’s ...

Bomb gone. Then there was one almighty flash. I could see the bones in my hands. I felt the heat on my back. We were then ...

An 85-year-old veteran has received a medal for his involvement in nuclear weapons testing on Christmas Island. Roger Filby, who lives in Caversham, Reading, joined the RAF aged 18 and was part of ...

A veteran of the Christmas Island hydrogen bomb tests has said he is proud and humbled to have received the Nuclear Test Medal. Gordon Craggs, of Ferndown, Dorset, witnessed the detonation of 24 ...

Operation Grapple saw a series of British nuclear weapons tests carried out close to Christmas Island, in the Pacific Ocean, between 1957 and 1958. The bomb tests assured British military power ...

The American nuclear tests took place near Christmas Island, Johnstone Island and at locations in the Pacific. The UK operation to support the Christmas Island tests - which involved about 300 ...

Mr Morris was one of about 22,000 military personnel exposed to the nuclear tests. ... "I had an x-ray taken before I went to Christmas Island, I had one after I came back.

Mr Harrison was present for five tests, being posted out there from New Year's Eve in 1957 until Christmas, 1958. The operation marked the United Kingdom's efforts to develop and test its own ...

G reater Manchester mayor Andy Burnham has called for a public inquiry into the Christmas Island nuclear bomb tests that some people claim caused the premature death of hundreds of veteran ...

Mr Yaxley's son, Colin, saw that the veterans and families of those who served on Christmas Island during the nuclear testing could apply for the medals, which recognise their service. Mr Yaxley was ...

Gordon Craggs wore his medal at the Cenotaph Remembrance Day parade A veteran of the Christmas Island hydrogen bomb tests has said he is proud and humbled to have received the Nuclear Test Medal ...