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The Supreme Court questioned the Army's gender-based cap on women Judge Advocate General officers, asking why more meritorious female candidates were being denied entry. Listen to Story Bench doubts ...

Players: Allies: General Bernard Montgomery's 8th Army's 50th and 1st Armoured Divisions, New Zealand Corps. Axis: The Italian 1st Army, formerly known as the Panzer Army Africa. Outcome ...

British and Commonwealth armed forces veterans from the Royal Navy, the British Army and the Royal Air Force, plus Wrens, Special Operations Executives, D-Day veterans and Desert Rats are among ...

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Basil Smith, from Carmarthenshire, served in the war as part of the Desert Rats, which operated in North Africa, and said that on VE Day he was relieved to be home in "normal surroundings" and not ...

To commemorate 80 years since VE Day, historic landmarks across the UK have been lit up in red, white and blue. A total of 83 monuments, buildings and attractions in the four nations and the ...

Former Antelope Valley College men’s and women’s volleyball head coach Mark Cruz said, “It was like losing a dad.” The close-knit, small volleyball Valley community was shocked and devastated to learn ...

Prince George, 11, joined senior royals at the tea party with veterans where a 98-year-old former prisoner of war, a 99-year-old who served with the Desert Rats and ... s Secret Army, were among ...

A 98-year-old former prisoner of war, a 99-year-old who served with the Desert Rats and took part in the D-Day landings, and a 100-year-old woman who worked in the Special Operations Executive (SOE), ...