As the world marks the 70th Anniversary of the end of the Second World War, RBTH remembers the dramatic and heroic story of the Arctic Convoys, a period of unique collaboration between Russia and ...
A decorated Bromsgrove veteran has been presented with a replacement Russian military badge after his was stolen last year.
Harold with his medals at a Merchant Navy remembrance service The last surviving veterans of the so-called Arctic Convoys will be receiving medals to mark the anniversary of the final naval ...
The three men, from left, Bernard Roberts, Edwin Leadbetter and James Docherty, took part in the Arctic Convoys to the Soviet Union Three veterans in their 90s have joined forces to commemorate ...
The cargo satisfied about 12% of the front’s and rear’s demands. The convoys’ Arctic route (other routes were across the Pacific Ocean and via Iran) was the shortest, though most dangerous.
Having revived the disaster genre with trilogy "The Wave," "The Quake" and "The Burning Sea," their Norwegian producers seem to be going the same route with "The Arctic Convoy," about the perilous ...
Ali Duff, an armed forces veteran also known as the Hairy Piper, is based in Avoch and devotes much of his time to raising ...
Jeremy Clarkson tells the story of the Arctic convoys of WWII and their greatest disaster. We’re sorry, the information you’re looking for isn’t available right ...
I knew nothing at all about the Arctic convoys until we bought this house in 1991, but gradually, we would receive a knock on the door and we would open it and there would be two, three ...