The battle of Villers-Bocage was one of the more infamous incidents of the Normandy campaign, that took place on 13 June 1944 ...

Private Ken Ward-Harvey was lucky to survive his first encounter with the enemy at the Battle of El Alamein in Egypt in 1942.

Area: The area in and around the town of St Valéry-en-Caux, northern France. Players: Allies: 51st Highland Division, 1st Armoured Division; French 9th Army Corps. Germany: 7th Panzer Division ...

Thoughts turned to amphibious artillery and Major-General Sir Percy Hobart, creator of the 7th Armoured Division, was assigned to develop specialised armour for the invasion.

The 3rd British Division moved forward through 3rd Mons positions to attack and clear the wooded area around Overloon with orders to go on to capture Venray. The plan was for the 3rd Mons to leap frog ...

The SDR recommends modernising the British Army's two divisions and ARRC headquarters (photo of Challenger 2 main battle tanks of the King's Royal Hussars, 3rd Armoured Division, supported by ...

Two of the hostages were killed during the Hamas attack on 7 October 2023; the third, Samerano, was abducted from the Nova ...

A man has told of his delight at being reunited with Second World War documents that belonged to his father after they were found hidden in a desk 18 years after he died.

Mr Reid discovered the papers had belonged to the late Ian Rodger, from Glasgow, who served with 2 Squadron of the 6th Armoured Division Signal Regiment, a unit of the British Army, and fought in ...

Climate campaigner Ms Thunberg, 22, was one of a dozen activists aboard the Madleen, which set sail from Sicily on 1 May on a mission aiming to break Israel's sea blockade.

A tiny gold coin that is believed to be the oldest from the Anglo-Saxons in East Anglia has been found in a field. Coin expert Adrian Marsden described the coin as a "massively significant" find ...