July 1, 1916—the first day of the Battle of the Somme became the bloodiest day in British military history. Over 57,000 soldiers were lost in mere hours, in a battle that was both a disaster and a ...

The early morning sun is already arching its way into the sky as you step across the field in northern France which has been ...

Speaking personally, I can say that I was more upset than I care to mention, because I had come to look upon the 1st/5th as the one battalion in the British Army and I was proud to belong to it.” ...

Around 75,000 British soldiers suffered from the condition during WW1. Between 1916 and 1919 Craiglockhart, Edinburgh, was used as a military psychiatric hospital for the treatment of British ...

LONDON, May 4, 1909 (UPI) --This is the question British naval authorities are debating ... U.S. ridiculously unready for war, military expert says By FREDERIC LOUIS HUIDEKOPER WASHINGTON, Jan ...

To this day, Stevens, who went on to become Commissioner of the Metropolitan Police and is now a Lord, believes a covert unit of the British Army called the Force Research Unit (FRU) burnt his ...

The first day of the Battle of the Somme, in northern France, was the bloodiest day in the history of the British Army and one of the most infamous days of World War One. On 1 July 1916 ...

More than 1,700 Black South African servicemen who died in non-combat roles on the Allied side during World War I and have no known grave have been recognized with a memorial more than 100 years later ...

While South Africa has several memorials dedicated to white soldiers who died in the world wars, Black servicemen’s ...

It is collecting stories from British Asian families ahead of an exhibition. A total of 1.3 million Indian soldiers served in WWI and more than ... of the Indian Army which fought in Iraq The ...