it’s clear that the commemorations created after what was then known as the Great War still resonate with serving soldiers today. WW1: Did the machine-gun save lives? documentWW1: Did the ...

A First World War soldier identified by tartan pieces and a thistle brooch has been laid to rest 109 years after his death.

Hundreds of South African soldiers, mostly black, who died during World War One have been honoured in Cape Town with a new ...

An incredibly poignant last letter home from a tragic Tommy to his army veteran dad days before he was killed in the First World War has been unearthed 111 years later. Lance Corporal William ...

The bodies of five British soldiers killed in the First World War have been found in a network of trenches at Ypres, Belgium. More than 80 years after their deaths, archaeologists discovered the ...

On Christmas Eve 1914, six months into World War I, a group of Allied and German soldiers put down their weapons for a brief time, shared cigarettes and chocolate with their enemies and joined in ...

Charles Harold Soder, of Zanesville, formerly of Newark, enlisted at age 15 in the U.S. Army as 18-year-old Frank Charles ...

While South Africa has several memorials dedicated to white soldiers who died in the world wars, Black servicemen’s ...