To mark Peter' 101st birthday former paratroopers last week dropped in at Broughton House Veteran Care Village in Salford ...
He was celebrated as a national hero at the 80th anniversary commemorations of the Normandy Landings in Portsmouth this Summer. King Charles III praised the courage of those who were involved in ...
France will limp out of 2024 with two elections, four governments and plummeting deficit levels, leaving the country in unprecedented political and budgetary instability, with prospects for 2025 not ...
A veteran tank crewman who lost both his legs after landing on Gold Beach on D-Day has died at the age of 99. Roy Hayward ...
One of the lesser-known facts about the Second World War is the extraordinary incident that took place during the Normandy ...
Mervyn Kersh arrived in Normandy aged 19, three days after the start of the D-Day invasion in June 1944, acting for the Royal ...
During World War Two, Mr Aldred was a Cromwell tank driver attached to the 7th Armoured Division in the Army. He met the King at the commemoration of the start of the Battle of Normandy at the British ...
Normandy veteran Mervyn Kersh enjoys a drink ... In May this year, ahead of the 80th anniversary of the landings, Mr Kersh said he had hoped the gains made in the Second World War “would have ...
A licence has been granted for plans to commemorate the 80th anniversary of D-Day and troops that left Stokes Bay, Gosport with a war ...
McCardell’s wartime Christmas letters, written from the frontlines of Europe, captured both the hardship of war and the hope ...
Veterans and dignitaries gathered in Belgium and Luxembourg this month to reflect on the deadly World War II conflict that ...