An elderly couple in France was walking through a field when they stumbled upon a carrier pigeon capsule that contained a ...

The copper instrument belonged to Private George Alan Carver, a soldier from the 12th Battalion Durham Light Infantry (DLI), ...

Steven Trout, The Battlefield of Memory: The First World War and American Remembrance, 1919–1941 (Tuscaloosa: University of Alabama Press, 2010), 2, 6; David M. Kennedy, Over Here: The First World War ...

Learn about the major world events and happenings, birthdays, and deaths that took place on July 1. Check what happened today ...

In 1867, Canada became a self-governing state within the British Empire, setting the stage to become fully independent in ...

Police maintained a heavy presence as the annual Somme parade passed through east Belfast on Tuesday evening. It’s understood ...

The first of July has come round again and the great disaster becomes a trifle dimmer than before. It is the most dismal of ...

A real ale fan who has spent more than 40 years on the world's longest pub crawl has celebrated reaching his 24,000TH boozer.

A wreath-laying ceremony has taken place at Belfast City Hall to mark the 109th anniversary of the Battle of the Somme.

Poignant sound of whistles heard as tributes paid to the 20,000 British soldiers killed on the first day of the Battle of the ...

It is now held at The Story in Mount Oswald House on the outskirts of Durham City, which is the permanent home of the DLI collection and archive - the bugle is one of the thousands of items under its ...