On Friday, the Commonwealth War Graves Commission officially recognized him as the youngest known British service casualty in World War II. The lad lived just 14 years and 152 days. He died when ...

We often hear the story of the Second World War through the experiences of American and British soldiers pitted in battle against Germany and Japan. But the largest volunteer force in the world ...

A British soldier has finally been buried in the Netherlands almost 70 years after he was killed in action in the Second World War, and nine years after his remains were found. Private Lewis ...

World War II and the Korean War saw their share of ... When the shooting started, he threw himself to the ground. The British soldiers were caught in a kill zone with fire coming from three ...

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 are most vulnerable at teatime: This is what German commanders understood during World War II. "Tommies," as British soldiers call themselves, would not spend a day without ...

For more than a century, the British soldier lay in an anonymous grave ... the remains of about 1,000 Americans killed in World War II have been identified and returned to their families for ...

What will also be remembered is the blood spilt on the streets of Northern Ireland, Ireland, and the UK — and the heavy price paid by the British Army. As civil unrest and sectarian violence in ...

just as we are very appreciative of British assistance nowadays,” he says. “The UK is one of the largest suppliers of military equipment to our country now.” “In 1941 Britain was the first ...

World War II, over its six-year span ... of course, in the air. The British arsenal in particular, as the conflict wore on, grew to include the likes of the somewhat unreliable Crusader tank.