Carton de Wiart died in 1963 at the age of 83, but his exploits have inspired generations of service members in the United ...

By 1917, the British Army could do this within a few months of ... as the Great War still resonate with serving soldiers today. WW1: Did the machine-gun save lives? documentWW1: Did the machine ...

The Royal Aircraft Factory S.E.5 was developed by a team of engineers including Henry Folland, John Kenworthy, and Major ...

The previously unmarked grave of an Edinburgh man of the 1st (Royal) Dragoons has now been identified and marked more than a ...

LONDON, May 4, 1909 (UPI) --This is the question British naval authorities are ... U.S. ridiculously unready for war, military expert says By FREDERIC LOUIS HUIDEKOPER WASHINGTON, Jan. 14, 1911 ...

We all know the stories of the horror of trench warfare in the First World War. Waves of soldiers clambering out of their trenches into a hail of gunfire and nests of barbed wire strewn across no ...

Today marks 100 years since the first day of the Battle of the Somme, the bloodiest day of the First World War ... to the British soldiers killed in the Somme, young men dressed in WW1 uniforms ...

those in bondage sided with whichever army promised them personal liberty. The British actively recruited slaves belonging to Patriot masters and, consequently, more blacks fought for the Crown.

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 ...

Travel in the Highlands was severely restricted during WW1 and anyone wishing ... during the First World War. In 1916 the North of Scotland was declared a Special Military Area (SPA) under the ...