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 ...

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 III was shown a family heirloom in the form of a kilt and met a D-Day veteran during his Aberdeen visit ...

After meeting volunteers and seeing new renovations to The Gordon Highlanders Museum, the King spoke to former soldiers in ...

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

Dr Sam Willis discovers how the British artist Norman Wilkinson developed dazzle camouflage to protect ships from German U-boats in WW1 WW1: Why was the first day of the Somme such a disaster?

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MBW’s Key Songs In The Life Of… is a series in which we ask influential music industry figures about the tracks that have – ...

The number of military cemeteries brought tears to my eyes. All contained the remains of the young men from foreign lands who ...

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 ...

Among its spot-on judgements is the recognition that on that first terrible day ‘the British did not fail by their ... and the degradation of German fighting power were two of the Somme’s many ...