3+ hour, 6+ min ago  (630+ words) The blue plaque is due to be installed on a retaining wall on the causeway that crosses Abberton Reservoir Installing a blue plaque at a reservoir would help people to learn about the crucial role it played in World War…...

1+ week, 9+ hour ago  (709+ words) Albert Lamond was a teenager when he took part in the 1944 D-Day landings One of Scotland's last surviving D-Day veterans has died aged 100. Albert Lamond, from Glasgow, was an 18-year-old signalman aboard HMS Rowley when he took part in the…...

3+ week, 6+ day ago  (368+ words) A police force has released footage of the moment a German World War Two bomb was destroyed. Officers were called to the river at Ely, Cambridgeshire, at about 12:40 GMT on New Year's Eve by a magnet fisher, who had been…...

1+ mon, 1+ day ago  (866+ words) Sandbags were being delivered in both Exmouth and Plymouth as emergency services work in and around the cordons A World War Two bomb dredged from the water in Exmouth is to be disposed of at sea on Friday morning. Thousands…...

1+ mon, 5+ day ago  (700+ words) Ateeq Ahmad found the book in a toy shop in his home city of Rawalpindi A man is trying to track down the family of a woman from Nottinghamshire whose 1940s notebook was discovered in a shop in Pakistan. Ateeq Ahmad…...

1+ mon, 2+ week ago  (80+ words) London, 1943. A mocked idea to feed false plans to the Nazis via a drowned corpse is brought to life by a military intelligence team, who add aspects of their own lives to the invented man's story. London, 1943. A mocked idea…...

1+ mon, 2+ week ago  (478+ words) A World War Two veteran who fought in Normandy as a teenager before becoming a prisoner of war has died at the age of 100, a charity said. Douglas Baldwin, from Caddington, Bedfordshire, served with the 6th Battalion of the King's Own…...

1+ mon, 2+ week ago  (424+ words) A 101-year-old D-Day veteran awarded a British Empire Medal has said Britain today is "disappointing" and that the country risked repeating mistakes made before World War Two. Mervyn Kersh from Cockfosters, north London, said being honoured for his school talks…...

1+ mon, 3+ week ago  (60+ words) During the Second World War, a group of Allied prisoners of war mount a daring breakout from a supposedly inescapable Nazi prison camp. Based on a true story. During the Second World War, a group of Allied prisoners of war…...

2+ mon, 1+ week ago  (713+ words) Leading naval nurse Abigail Wright said periods of isolation presented unique mental health challenges A service woman who is the sole dedicated mental health nurse assigned to the Submarine Service has been named "Woman of the Year". Leading naval nurse…...