A Culcheth man who was a 'Bevin Boy' during the Second World War, forced to work down coal mines, will tell his story at Chester's Storyhouse ...

A FORMER Wirral man who was a 'Bevin Boy' during the Second World War, forced to work down coal mines, will tell his story at Chester's ...

A Lowestoft man who flew more than 30 missions during the Second World War and was honoured for "contributing to the Liberation of the Netherlands" has marked his 100th birthday in style. Jack Munday ...

In the summer of 1944, Wren Kathleen Oates was stationed on the Isle of Man, writing dozens of letters home about life and ...

Charles Auborn, 99, joined the Army aged 18 in 1944 and served as a gunner ... and finally Tripoli before being demobbed in 1947. Royal Navy veteran Cyril Jones Alston, 98, began his service ...

After being demobbed in May 1945 ... put through the wartime aircrew training that his grandfather undertook in 1944. They also went to Holland to see where the food supplies had been dropped ...

"To get demobbed and to go home ... Sir Wintson Churchill visited the Normandy beaches on 12 June 1944 to survey the destruction An unassuming man, Monty says he rarely spoke about what happened ...

He finally arrived in Britain in March 1944. Olga Hopkins ... his work minesweeping in the Mediterranean and wasn’t demobbed until 1947. Bernard Morgan, 101: A Royal British Legion ambassador ...

For Mr Mitchell, who took part in the D-Day landings in June 1944, there was at least relief ... they would have to go to Japan rather than be demobbed. But by the time they were trained up ...