The early morning sun is already arching its way into the sky as you step across the field in northern France which has been made damp by the morning dew, leaving your boots squeaking underfoot as you ...

The first day of the Battle of the Somme, in northern France, was the bloodiest day in the history of the British Army and one of the most infamous days of World War One. On 1 July 1916 ...

Speaking personally, I can say that I was more upset than I care to mention, because I had come to look upon the 1st/5th as the one battalion in the British Army and I was proud to belong to it.” ...

To this day, Stevens, who went on to become Commissioner of the Metropolitan Police and is now a Lord, believes a covert unit of the British Army called the Force Research Unit (FRU) burnt his ...

Dan Snow describes the food rations supplied for British soldiers during WW1 and compares these with ... Napoleon is claimed to have said “an army marches on its stomach”.

By Nathaniel Swindell, Staff Writer On Friday, interdisciplinary studies professor Ian Isherwood ’00 presented his latest book, “The Battalion,” to the campus community in the Musselman Library.

He worked with Brasserie de Silly to create a coppery, red British beer to satisfy the thirst of his fellow soldiers. After the war, Sgt Payne married his Belgian sweetheart Emilie Timmermans ...

“Steadfast Dart shows what the British Army and Nato are capable of – that we can move large convoys over long distances to enable activity wherever we need to do that. “There have been ...

The bronze work in Smethwick honours service personnel of all faiths from the Indian subcontinent who fought for Britain during WW1 and other ... a fifth of the British Indian Army," she said.