My father served in the army during the First World War and was wounded towards the end of the war. He was released from hospital early in 1919 and married in December of that year. Their first child, ...

Brian Pennicott: in the Falklands campaign, Pennicott was responsible for the co-ordination of air defence, naval gunfire and fighter ground-attack aircraft Major General Brian Pennicott, who has died ...

Soon after the old Queen’s Birthday in 1916, a convoy left Bermuda including one ship with over two hundred black Bermudians and their white officers, Bermudians to boot. On 9 June, the English coast ...

While driving up through Holland in the last stages of WW2 in Europe, I lost my temper and very nearly my rank! I was passenger in an army lorry, towing a 45 pound artillery piece and 50 rounds of ...

Buried under the Kent coast for 50 years was a secret Second World War gun emplacement. In 2023, Fan Bay No.3 Gun Emplacement was excavated and restored and it is now open to the public. Part of the ...

A man magnet fishing off the De Jessa Bridge Thursday pulled a WW2-era artillery shell from the Passaic River. The Bergen County Bomb Squad responded to the scene and took the item. A magnet fisher ...