Eric served in the Grenadier Guards during the Second World War (Image: Sophie Brownrigg) Eric's family say that he is recognised as the last remaining Second World War veteran across the borough, and ...

Built for an army cooperation role, the Lysander excelled as a flagship for spying missions. “Some talk of Alexander and some of Hercules/Of Hector and Lysander and such great names as these…” Those ...

In 1942, she was made colonel-in-chief of the Grenadier Guards by her father, and in 1945, she joined the Woman's Auxiliary Territorial Service where she became a mechanic. The Queen is the only head ...

Tilly Laskey has been a curator at the Maine Historical Society for 10 years. She’s created a platform for other curators or ...

Scores of unexploded bombs dating from World War II have been recovered from a children’s playground in northern England after a chance discovery. Local officials in the town of Wooler ...

A border guard official told AFP that the guards were patrolling a village near the Turkish border when "shooting and clashes" with the PKK broke out. A shooting which officials blamed on the ...

New reporting from The Wall Street Journal details how Igor Potapenko, the head of Russia’s Federal Penitentiary Service for St. Petersburg and the Leningrad region, ordered guards to subject ...

The U.S. Air Force will no longer teach its recruits about the Tuskegee Airmen, the more than 15,000 Black pilots, mechanics and cooks in the segregated Army of World War II, an official with the ...

DUBAI, Jan 27 (Reuters) - Iran has purchased Russian-made Sukhoi-35 fighter jets, a senior Revolutionary Guards commander said on Monday, amid Western concerns about Tehran and Moscow's growing ...

For years, scores of unexploded practice bombs dating to World War II lay buried beneath the feet of playing children in northern England. What's more, the 175 or so bombs likely would have ...

The city put up notices at Grenadier Lakes at Welleby Friday deeming some of the condo buildings unsafe after a report from an independent engineer identified structural deficiencies in some of ...