5+ hour, 3+ min ago  (515+ words) Home " Sandwich " News " Article The previously unnamed grave of a Second World War army officer has been identified and rededicated in his name 86 years after his death. A service for 2nd Lieutenant Ronald Douglas Elmer Speed, of Goodnestone, near Sandwich, was…...

3+ week, 1+ day ago  (457+ words) A school is marking its links to its wartime past with the opening of a new school block and visitor centre. Pupils at Maidstone Grammar School for Girls were not alone in undergoing trials and tribulations in their education during…...

3+ week, 1+ day ago  (365+ words) Hundreds of people have paid their respects to one of the last remaining Royal Marine veterans of the Second World War. A street in Salisbury was lined by mourners at the funeral of Jim Wren, who died earlier this year…...

2+ mon, 20+ hour ago  (394+ words) A bomb disposal team descended on a retail park after a magnet fisherman hauled a live shell from a river. Police were called to B&M in Wincheap, Canterbury, just after 2pm today, following the discovery in the nearby River Stour....

4+ mon, 2+ week ago  (657+ words) An archive collection featuring soldiers who were killed, wounded, or went missing during the First World War, including thousands from Kent, has been launched. Faces of the Fallen 1914-1918 features pictures from the historical Kentish Gazette, Kentish Express, Kent Messenger, Sheerness…...

11+ mon, 3+ hour ago  (342+ words) Bergen-Belsen survivors and Government officials have attended a commemoration marking the 80th anniversary of the concentration camp's liberation by British forces. The delegation of 180 people on Sunday at the Bergen-Belsen Memorial included survivors, descendants of liberators and survivors, cadets, veterans, Jewish…...

8+ mon, 3+ day ago  (410+ words) A Second World War plane is being squeezed through the doors of a historic cathedral for a month-long display. The Short Scion Floatplane G-AEZF has been restored and will soon be available for the public to see at Rochester Cathedral,…...

9+ mon, 2+ week ago  (403+ words) A Napoleonic prisoner of war camp buried under a field in Cambridgeshire has been bought by a trust with the intention of preserving it as a historic site. Norman Cross, the world's first purpose-built prisoner of war camp, was privately…...

8+ mon, 4+ week ago  (258+ words) Top-secret papers and pictures from the D-Day landings have been found and will go under the hammer 81 years after bosses were supposed to burn them. A special collection of wartime memorabilia will be sold off next month by Ashford-based C…...

10+ mon, 2+ week ago  (447+ words) More than 70 Dunkirk Little Ships will be sailing into Ramsgate's Royal Harbour this month to commemorate the 85th anniversary of Operation Dynamo. The fleet, some of which are more than 100 ... More than 70 Dunkirk Little Ships will be sailing into Ramsgate's Royal…...