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Learn about what happened to the British West Indies Regiment after World War One with BBC Bitesize History. For students between the ages of 11 and 14.
Otherwise known as the 1914-15 Star, the British War Medal and the Victory Medal, each was issued to thousands of soldiers after World War One.
Military historian Andy Robertshaw talks through the uniform worn by soldiers in the British Expeditionary Force at the start of World War One.
Tributes to Britain’s oldest Second World War veteran, who lived in Derbyshire, have flooded in following his death at the ...
A RECENTLY discovered Great War plaque has revealed that Walter Tull was not the first black serviceman to serve in the British Army.
News Scottish News World War 1 Highland war hero's World War One medals up for £4000 at auction During an astonishing military career, Sergeant Dan Gray led troops on the Western Front.
SALFORD residents are being urged to do for a forgotten Victoria Cross hero what critics say his own regiment hasn't done - honour his memory. Joseph Woodall won a VC during the First World War ...
A short history of the mutiny at Taranto in Italy by West Indian soldiers in the British army at the end of World War I, which had a significant impact subsequently on anti-colonial struggles in the ...
Tribute to First World War soldiers executed by British refurbished after flood Janet Booth’s grandfather was shot ‘for showing cowardice’ and the memorial remembers him and 308 other soldiers.
At the end of the First World War the Allied nations faced a mammoth task recovering, identifying and burying the hundreds of thousands killed across the previous four years. Author Kevin Shannon ...