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 ...
Leading to serious questions on its fairness and suitability to determine citizenship, according to a study by Essex ...
Recent data has revealed Brits are stumped by questions in their own citizenship test. The research of 2,000 Britons ...
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 ...
Michael Longley will be recognised as one of the greatest poets that Ireland has ever produced, and it has long been my ...
Michael Longley, from Belfast, received several awards for his 13 collections, including the Feltrinelli Prize ...
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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 ...
King Charles started his week with a special engagement as he met a 99 year old veteran.  While visiting The Gordon ...
King Charles III was shown a family heirloom in the form of a kilt and met a D-Day veteran during his Aberdeen visit ...
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 has hailed a 99-year-old D-Day veteran as a "great example to us all" during a visit to a Scots military museum.