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

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 ...

Each year around 60 bodies of First World War soldiers of all nationalities are found in the old battlefields, the spokesman went on.

The 24-year-old private, from Ashted ... He was shipped back to England and, while in hospital, like many other injured soldiers, he took up embroidery during his recovery. The work he created ...

Dan Snow describes the food rations supplied for British soldiers during WW1 and compares these with what German soldiers had. The value of different foods is touched on and we learn that ...

He also found out the young soldier had been married for one year and had a son, who was six months old at the time of his death. "The whole thought of my ancestor fighting a lot of these lads who ...

BECAUSE of the extraordinary “truce” of December 25, 1914 – when soldiers from both sides ... that gets to the heartbeat of WWI then To War with the Old Gent by Nicholas Lambert must surely ...

The 107-year-old album also sheds light on the character ... In fact, embroidery was used as a therapy for injured WW1 soldiers. ‘The War Office feared it would feminise them but the skill ...