World War I and World War II. (Wikimedia Commons) The British wisely fancied him. During four decades of service that saw him receive more than 30 military medals, Carton de Wiart transformed ...

British soldiers who died in World War One and were buried ... the Commonwealth War Graves Commission hoping to have identified their final resting places. Military officials later confirmed their ...

With his final breaths, one of the aviators provided information to give Allied artillery accurate coordinates to target ...

He predicted that WWI would be the last war in his article ... Captain Edwin Vaughan, 1917 Vaughan was a British Army officer in World War I, and his diary became a famous book.

Around 75,000 British soldiers suffered from the condition during WW1. Between 1916 and 1919 Craiglockhart, Edinburgh, was used as a military psychiatric hospital for the treatment of British ...

The first day of the Battle of the Somme, in northern France, was the bloodiest day in the history of the British Army and one of the most infamous days of World War One. On 1 July 1916 ...

The British government introduced the National Service Act in 1948 to cover conscription in peacetime. As a result, men aged 17 and 21 had to do military service for 18 months and were also put on ...

War has been raging in Europe for over two years with no end in sight. The line along the Western Front had barely altered despite the best efforts of the British Expeditionary Force and the French ...

Boylston, an American nurse serving at a British Army base hospital near the Western Front in 1918, had been running between wards of wounded patients that night, trying to calm their nerves ...

Montgomery, commonly referred to as "Monty," initially earned distinction during World War II due to his highly effective leadership of the British Eighth Army in North Africa. There, Montgomery ...