A fundraiser has been launched with the hopes of having a bust erected of the first Irish soldier to receive the Military ...

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According to his Military Cross citation, the British troops in Karakan were under heavy fire for 29 minutes. That deployment was Jones' third to Afghanistan.

A British army major is being investigated in a probe into allegations that he was awarded a medal based on exaggerated reports of bravery in Afghanistan, the defense ministry said on Saturday.

A British army major is being investigated in a probe into allegations that he was awarded a medal based on exaggerated reports of bravery in Afghanistan, the defence ministry said on Saturday.

It was presented during a special ceremony at the British Embassy in Washington, D.C., in 1947. Landers and his wife, Mary, a fellow University of Missouri graduate, wed on Oct. 9, 1943.