The 99-year-old joined the home guard at the age of 14 at the outbreak of the war. He then lied about his age to sign up and joined the Royal Sussex regiment, before being transferred to the Royal ...

Walter Waring, a distinguished officer and veteran of the Boer War and a Liberal MP ... of the Third Royal Sussex Regiment, had been born in London, educated in England and Switzerland, and ...

Robert Piper, 99, joined the home guard at the age of 14 at the outbreak of the war. He then lied about his age to sign up and joined the Royal Sussex regiment, before being transferred to the ...

Winston Churchill became a Taplow habitué after returning from the Boer ... for war and long-standing friend of the Desboroughs, confided that Julian’s cavalry regiment, the Royal Dragoons ...

Followed categories will be added to My News. In the early 1970s in the wake of the Vietnam War, the 106th battery from the 4th regiment, Royal Australian Artillery (4REG) was sent to Singapore ...

"Scotland is poorer in men but richer in heroes," the inscription on the memorial reads. The Anglo-Boer War battle took place during the Boer siege of Kimberley, a strategic diamond mining town. A ...

Few people are aware of the role of the Russians in the Anglo-Boer War. While it is not the first book on the subject, it is based on unique archival material and other rare sources which were not ...

The Royal Mail says the 80th anniversary of the end of the Second World War is an opportunity to acknowledge just some of the remarkable men and women who made remarkable contributions during the war.

A new five-storey cancer centre to serve patients in Sussex has been given the green light. Planning permission was granted for the development at the Royal Sussex County Hospital in Brighton on ...

A World War Two veteran said she would never forget watching the Royal Family waving from the balcony at Buckingham Palace on VE Day. Joyce Goulborn, 101, was working as a telephone switchboard ...

The official surrender of Nazi Germany to Allied forces took place on May 8, 1945, ending a brutal war that ... with a 12th Royal Lancers Brooch – honoring her late father’s regiment.