2+ week, 6+ day ago   (471+ words) A fundraising target for a memorial to Channel Islands journalists who resisted Nazi occupation during World War Two has been reached, organisers have said. Historian Timothy Crook, who led the appeal, said the target of £1,000 was reached thanks to the…...

4+ week, 1+ day ago   (467+ words) A section of railway track has been unveiled at the site of a World War Two memorial commemorating prisoners who built what became known as the Death Railway between Thailand and Myanmar, formerly Burma. The reconstruction was installed in South…...

1+ mon, 1+ week ago   (171+ words) A suspected unexploded World War Two bomb found at a quarry in Staffordshire has been safely detonated in a planned controlled explosion. A small number of residents were evacuated from near the quarry site on Walton Lane, Barton-under-Needwood on Thursday,…...

2+ mon, 3+ day ago   (474+ words) A blind schoolboy has been praised in the House of Commons for creating a multi-sensory World War Two exhibition to honour the spirit of Dunkirk. Ben from Bishop's Stortford, Hertfordshire, put a display together as part of a school research…...

3+ mon, 2+ day ago   (291+ words) Local residents are being encouraged to share their memories and family tales of life during, and immediately after, World War Two. The collection is part of the At War & In Peace project, which aims to bring the past to life…...

5+ mon, 2+ day ago   (930+ words) During World War One, hundreds of injured soldiers recovered from their wounds, both physical and mental, at Normanby Hall – a 19th Century stately home in North Lincolnshire. Ahead of its inaugural Armed Forces Festival, marking its wartime role, record-keepers share the…...

5+ mon, 3+ week ago   (336+ words) A small housing estate in East Sussex was once an airfield vital to the country's wartime defences. Polegate Royal Naval Airship Station was set up in 1915 and became one of 11 such stations around the coast. The aircraft carried out reconnaissance,…...