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Whistle Last Blown At The Somme Sounds For First Time In A Century

An Army officer's whistle which was last blown on the battlefield of the Somme has been sounded for the first time in more than a century to ...

Tweeting From The Trenches: What If Social Media Had Existed During The First World War?

To mark 100 years since the First World War, Walter Carter and family took to Facebook and Twitter to share what life during wartime is like ...

The Incredible Story Of How Two Men Survived The Sinking Of HMS Vanguard

100 years on, we look at the only two men who survived the Royal Navy’s worst wartime accident.

Somme Soldier Laid To Rest After 101-Year Wait

Private Henry Parker was killed in action during the Battle of the Somme on 26 September 1916, just three days short of his 23rd birthday.

Appeal To Remember Somme Fallen In Mammoth Artwork

A crowdfunding appeal has been launched to commemorate the troops who died in the Battle of the Somme and were never recovered...

How A Royal Navy Man Uncovered A Plot And Changed History

At the height of the First World War, Royal Naval intelligence intercepted a message containing the following code...

How trailblazing Doctor Elsie Inglis and the Scottish Women's Hospitals revolutionized frontline medicine

Their story is little-known, but during the First World War, a group of Scottish women helped treat an estimated 200,000 Allied soldiers

Verdun And The Story Of Modern France

History's longest battle ran from February 1916 to a few days after December 15, when the last Germans were driven out by the final attack.

Military Footballers Remember Battle Of The Somme

Britain and Germany's Army footballers have honoured those who died in the Battle of the Somme. Two matches took place, with the men's and ...

#IRemember: Army Olympic Hero's Somme Tribute

Double Olympic champion Heather Stanning MBE has joined our #IRemember campaign with a tribute to all those who gave their lives at the ...

Somme Hero Honoured In Salisbury

A paving stone has been unveiled to Lieutenant Colonel Tom Adlam. The Englishman was awarded a Victoria Cross after leading a two-day attack ...

The War That Set The Stage For World War One

On September 2, 1870, two of Europe's most powerful men met and made an agreement that would change the course of European history and set ...

Scotland's Somme: The Story Of McCrae's Battalion

Forces Network's Ali Gibson has looked at the story of McCrae's Battalion and how some of Scotland's most famous footballers went to war in ...

Duke Of Lancaster's Regiment Remembers Somme Soldiers

Bazentin Ridge: Another Slog On The Somme

The Battle of the Somme didn't just happen on July 1, 1916. Detailed here is another bloody stage of the campaign.

The Great Emu War: How Australia was beaten by a bird

Being able to stand eye to eye with the opposition but not outrun them proved to be the main problem.