Wars that are not remembered are wars whose lessons are lost—the war of 1965 may be a ‘forgotten war’, but it must never be ...

The ‘Desert Rats’ of the British 7th Armoured Division engaged in the successful Tunisian campaign - Hulton Archive On the afternoon of May 12 1943, in Cap Bon, north-east Tunisia, Gen Theodor Graf ...

Originally designed for Iran, the British Challenger 1 main battle tank was adopted by the British Army after the 1979 Iranian Revolution and became a legend in Operation Desert Storm. -During the ...

The British Army is investing in a fleet of armoured tanks - with over a hundred bought in the last year alone - amid growing global tensions with emerging threats from China and Russia. The UK's ...

People of Ilkeston have taken to the streets to honour one of their finest sons, 110-year-old Second World War veteran, Donald Rose. Mr Rose, who was the UK's oldest man when he died in July, served ...

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Britain's oldest Second World War veteran, also believed to be Britain's oldest man, Donald Rose, has passed away aged 110. The D-Day veteran was born on Christmas Eve in 1914, the same year that ...

Following on from his article last week, which ended with the appalling casualties that the 3rd Mons suffered at Veulen, local author Doug McCarthur ends his history of the Abergavenny based regiment ...