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Canadian First Nation WWI Hero Remembered – Credited With Killing 378 Germans And Capturing 300 More.

  Francis Pegahmagabow is not a well-known name, but he was a Canadian First Nation sniper-hero of World War One and the most-awarded aboriginal soldier…

New Book Details Role of Indians, Sikhs and Muslims in World War One

The role of Indian soldiers who took part in World War One has been commemorated in a new book called For King and Another Country:…

The cigarette case that saved a soldiers life goes on display in Dublin

One hundred years since the Allied attack at Gallipoli two new Dublin exhibitions in Ireland are showcasing a range of items as well as photographs from the…

WORLD WAR II: From Blitzkrieg to Hiroshima – Review by Mark Barnes

Mark Barnes

This book is re-released in time for the 70th anniversary of the end of the war. It was overseen by the late Richard Holmes; the…

World War One Miners to be Commemorated

Ian Harvey

160 miners who served during World War One are to be commemorated nearly 100 years after they fought and gave their lives for the war…

New Budapest memorial reveals Neo-Nazi concerns for Hungary

Ian Harvey
Budapest

Budapest, Hungary’s capital, recently unveiled a new statue to commemorate and remember the victims of World War Two. The statue is a stone Archangel Gabriel,…

French troops satisfied in all departments during World War One

Ian Harvey
French troops

A little talked about subject, but during World War One historians have now revealed that French troops were not only watered, fed and armed, they…

World War One memorial wrecked and forgotten is to be recreated

Ian Harvey
World War One memorial

A suburb of Manchester in Salford had 100 years ago commemorated those who left the area to fight in World War One and never returned.…

Aboriginal Australians remembered for World War One service

Ian Harvey
Aboriginal Australians

Steps to reconciliation with Australia’s indigenous population, the Aboriginal Australians, have gradually taken place over the years, most notably with a referendum in 1967 to…

New bill allows national World War One memorial for Washington D.C.

Ian Harvey
memorial

At the 100th anniversary of World War One, Washington D.C. is finally going to have a permanent national memorial to the soldiers who fought and…

Mates family shares their story of World War One tragedy

Ian Harvey
World War One

Thousands of names have been etched on memorials around the world to commemorate and honour those who have given their lives to war efforts. The…

Nuts! Gen. McAuliffe and the Battle of the Bulge

Ian Harvey
McAuliffe

In Hitler’s final push for victory, the Battle of the Bulge involved more than 610,000 American troops from December 1944 to January 1945, with more…