Peter badcoe

HEROES OF THE VICTORIA CROSS

When their B-17 came under attack during a reconnaissance mission in the South Pacific, two crewmen earned the highest award for gallantry

Three months after German forces captured Fort Douaumont in February 1916 (see issue 1 of Iron Cross) a calamity befell the occupiers, predominantly comprising troops from the Prussian Brandenburg reg

We ended last month looking at the soldier’s pocket books of the 19th century. Sadly very few of these documents survive. They are NOT included in any Army papers that have been stored over the years.

On a frosty New Year’s Day in 1944, a young soldier from Newcastle married the love of his life with barely four hours to spare. My father, Corporal George Bell, a conscript with the Royal Electrical

From disastrous beginnings to heroic triumph, this exhibition comprehensively covers the Second World War Burma campaign