19+ hour, 42+ min ago  (396+ words) The French coastguard has rescued 106 people travelling in a single boat after it broke down during an attempt to cross the English Channel. French authorities, who first became aware of the stricken vessel on Saturday, said they were put aboard…...

3+ day, 15+ hour ago  (396+ words) A huge chalk flag carved into a Wiltshire hillside has been restored by Australian soldiers and volunteers ahead of an Anzac Day ceremony. The Map of Australia, near Compton Chamberlayne, was carved into the grassy downland in 1917 by soldiers of…...

4+ day, 2+ hour ago  (476+ words) A woman will be wearing her father's medals at the unveiling of a memorial for veterans who fought in one of the fiercest battles of the Korean War. Pam Walker, 72, daughter of Alan Davies, one of those named on the…...

1+ week, 6+ hour ago  (506+ words) A World War Two veteran who was awarded the Distinguished Service Cross (DSC) and served in the Navy throughout the conflict has died aged 109. Frank Chester, who was born in Ludlow, Shropshire, in April 1917, died at a nursing home in…...

1+ week, 17+ hour ago  (272+ words) A rededication ceremony has taken place for a bench honouring 21 soldiers who died while on active service in Malaya in the 1950s. The bench, which honours men of the Worcestershire Regiment, has been moved to the county from Staffordshire's National Memorial…...

7+ mon, 3+ week ago  (36+ words) Comments are closed for this object Click a button to explore other objects in the timeline View more objects from people in Manchester. Joel Garner's Cricketing Boot Model made by a German Prisoner-of-War...

1+ week, 2+ day ago  (568+ words) A war veteran who lost his ability to talk and slept on the streets due to a fear of being enclosed has been remembered with a memorial. William Clements, known as Barton Billy, was captured by the Japanese during World…...

1+ week, 6+ day ago  (281+ words) Three new pictures of World War Two soldiers buried in the town of Venray in the Netherlands have been found after an appeal on BBC North West. The foundation had appealed to find relatives of 16 North West soldiers earlier this…...

8+ mon, 3+ week ago  (1599+ words) At 08: 15 on August 6, 1945, Lee Jung-soon bin dey on her way to elementary school, wen nuclear bomb bin fall like stone through di skies ova Hiroshima. Ms Lee wey be 88-year-old now wave her hands as if she dey try erase…...

2+ week, 9+ hour ago  (752+ words) When Private Duncan Mac Farlane finally returned home to Scotland after World War One, his family found bullet wound scars all over his body. He had been missing in action for six months before his wife tracked him down to…...