A meeting was held at Fulham Town Hall in early December 1914 to recruit players for what would be known as the 'Football Battalion', with the unit’s official name being the Duke of Cambridge’s Own ...

Greater Manchester, as it always does, will stand together this weekend to observe Remembrance Sunday and Armistice Day on ...

AS Armistice Day approaches, EMMA CLAYTON looks back to the centenary of the Battle of the Somme, when she visited a French village where ...

First Minister Michelle O'Neill is to become the first senior Sinn Féin figure to take part in an official Remembrance Sunday ceremony later. O'Neill has confirmed she has accepted an invitation and ...

The memorial represented the town and commemorated soldiers ... For Birstall the blackest day was July 1, 1916 - five ...

A First World War memorial in a Lancashire churchyard has been given a Grade II listing. The memorial commemorates the ...

Daniel McAlpine, a private in the Highland Light Infantry, was sheltering in a tunnel under the Somme village of Bouzincourt, France, when he pencilled his name, service number, unit, home town of ...

Richard sheds light on a relatively lesser-known chapter of Robert Graves’ life, who served with the Royal Welch Fusiliers (RWF) during the Battle of the Somme in 1916 ... as evidenced by the ...

In 1916, Harold Wrong plucked a flower from the fields of Somme, France and tucked it into a letter he mailed home to Toronto ...

A First World War memorial dedicated to a soldier who was fatally shot as he delivered a message during the Battle of Somme ...

“I went at it again in the past few months to determine the facts based on the story I was told that my great uncle on my dad ...