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The March 27 discovery of a rusty and decayed German howitzer from the First World War that had been buried at the PNE made international headlines. The second find came April 23, and included two ...
A new set of commemorative stamps has been issued to mark the 80th anniversary of the end of the Second World War. Royal Mail said ... activist and the first Black man to join the London Auxiliary ...
Canadian soldiers took many German artillery pieces home as “war trophies” after the First World War. Almost all have disappeared. But more than a century later, one has turned up three metres ...
The cache from Vilnius Cathedral, in Lithuania, has not been seen since the outbreak of World War II in 1939 ... The items were first discovered in 1931 when the cathedral was being cleaned ...
In tonight's expanded edition of 60 Minutes, Bill Whitaker reports on the Cap Arcona, a Nazi ship housing prisoners during World War II ... troops in Russia for the first time Michael Keaton ...
An ex-soldier who was jailed for kissing a fellow serviceman in the 1980s has become one of the first ... Royal Fusiliers' regimental HQ at the Tower of London to re-receive his military cap and ...
Prostitution and war often go hand-in-hand. But this is perhaps most true of the First World War, where even the French government played a part in the sex industry – a legacy that continued alm ...
Gareth opted to join the Royal Welch Fusiliers (RWF ... the Seven Years War, and both World Wars. The RWF was not a South Walian regiment. Recruits came from Birmingham, Liverpool and across ...
The first step to is to determine whether discovered remains are really those of a soldier from World War I. Researchers ... as are regiment badges as well as water bottles or whistles bearing ...
Casualties were so heavy the Allies never conducted a major landing for the rest of the war. The nearly year-long Battle of Verdun was the longest battle of the First World War. Fought in northern ...
Major Mick McCarthy, the Royal Fusiliers regimental secretary, revealed Lady Shakira secretly sent her husband’s medals, service record and cap badge to the Fusiliers headquarters, where they ...