During the Second World War it was a training base for army soldiers to learn to fly following large RAF losses in the Battle of Britain. Old Sarum Airfield was commissioned in 1917 and is one of ...

A man is trying to trace the family of a former Hartlepool soldier after finding an army service medal in a London flea ...

Not content with ridiculing the Kaiser in the pages of the Daily Express, Sidney Strube joined up, serving with distinction ...

As they marched, their path dimly lit by torches, they heard the clanging of bells, the firing of alarm guns, and drums.

The doughboys hated British chow (not to mention drinking tea instead of coffee). They got along better with the Australians, ...

D-Day marked the beginning of the end of the Second World War, a period of our history captured on screen in all its guts and ...

As one of the oldest ... the very first battles of the war, with the first shot often referred to as "the shot heard around the world." During these battles, British troops marched through ...

VE Day will be honoured and remembered with dedicated programming across TV, iPlayer, Radio and Sounds marking the 80th ...

Thirty-two cutters filled with British troops advanced steadily ... of a campaign that would be regarded as one of the great Allied failures of World War I. The name quickly became a metaphor ...

And it's these very traits, along with its ability to "never once fail to surprise and entertain", that have seen this World War Two film ... at a Paris cinema. One is by a British-led operation ...