Great Granddaughter Visits WWI Somme Tunnel – Digger’s Grave – For The First Time
Sapper William Arthur Lloyd, a Welsh miner from New Broughton, North Wales, joined the 179th Tunneling Company in 1915. In October 1915, he was sent…
World War II PoW’s name to be removed from war memorial after he was discovered to have survived until 1989
A prisoner of war during the World War Two was presumed to have died in the hands of the Nazis. Recently, it was discovered that…
Top 8 WWII Mistakes Made By The Allies
1. The Failure to Attack Germany After It Invaded Poland Starting from the beginning, one of the first mistakes related to the Second World…
Awareness campaign leads to probes of suspected Nazi war criminals
BERLIN — A Nazi hunter notes that their ad campaign has produced 300 tips that point to 110 alleged Nazi criminals. Of the 110 names,…
Battle of the Nations re-enactment to show Napoleon’s dramatic defeat at Leipzig
After 200 years since the historical defeat of Napoleon at Leipzig, Germany, thousands of war-gamers and history buffs gather to replay one of the bloodiest…
French General Gaulle ‘thanked’ British WWII hero Captain Lake by telling him to ‘go home’ –secret Government files disclosed
Photo story (Clockwise from left): (1) Captain Peter Lake during WWII (2) In April 1944, Captain Lake was parachuted into the French territory to train…
WWI battlefield images to create a gateway to historic landscapes of the Great War
Photographs of battlefields during the World War I are in exhibit in a gallery show in Westminster Hall in Britain for the first time. After…
The World War I Ghosts of Verdun Continue to Haunt the French Psyche
Verdun is one of the battlefields that hosted brutal encounters between the Allies and Axis Powers during the World War I. Yet, it is the…
Haunting photographs of the battlefields of the War to end all wars- Exhibition at Westminster Hall
Photo story (Clockwise from top left): (1) Soldier’s helmet left on the cross of the grave at the Chalons-en-Champagne, France battleground burial site memorial; in…
One of the most horrific slaughters of infantry- Battle of the Hohenzollern Redoubt
Photo story: Men in Uniform paying homage at the memorial to the casualties of the 46th North Midland Division at the Hohenzollern Redoubt on 13th…
Pressure falls on France to pardon shot “coward” soldiers in WWI
Around 600 to 650 which served France during the World War I were executed by own firing squad for “cowardice”. During the WWI Centenary next…