The funeral of the last Colonel of the famous Gordon Highlanders regiment has been held at the famous military academy where ...

The King has met with one of the last surviving veterans of the D-Day landings. Jim Glennie - now 99 - was an 18-year-old soldier when he took part in Operation Overlord on 6 June 1944 to liberate ...

King Charles started his week with a special engagement as he met a 99 year old veteran.  While visiting The Gordon ...

After the war ended, he moved back to London and after completing his schooling at St Paul’s, in March 1955, he decided to sign up as a Regular soldier in The Gordon Highlanders. He completed ...

A parade of Gordon Highlanders in dress uniform march through the centre of Aberdeen on their way to the Boer War. Small children run around in excitement but are moved aside by a member of the ...

During the visit, Charles was shown a family heirloom from the First World War, a kilt worn by a soldier who was ... still encrusted with mud from the Somme – as he visited The Gordon Highlanders ...

Record of War Service, 1914-1918 09:15 - The Royal ... mine crater under increasingly desperate conditions. 16:00 - 2nd Gordon Highlanders take Mametz. 17:00 - 17 HLI “At 5pm the shattered ...