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Pvt. Robert Kenneth Malcolm, a British soldier who disappeared in Belgium during World War I, was laid to rest Wednesday, four years after his remains were identified.
Soldiers often went missing in muddy fields churned over by relentless bombing and fighting. The carnage took place from 1914-1918 and included the first use of chemical weapons.
A little more than 3,000 Christian and Jewish British soldiers are interred in a cemetery in central Gaza. Many of the British soldiers laid to rest there died fighting the Ottomans in 1917.
Just short of 90 years after he was executed at dawn for refusing to take his men to a near-certain death, Wall and 305 other British soldiers were finally pardoned on Wednesday under a law ...
World News Hamas planned to exhume bodies of UK soldiers from WWI and WWII in grisly scheme to hold remains hostage: IDF By Chris Harris Published Aug. 17, 2024, 3:48 p.m. ET ...
Within a few hours on Christmas Eve 1914, entire units simply stopped fighting, thus giving birth to what is now known as the Christmas Truce. Stunningly, some 100,000 soldiers participated.
Nothing could prepare young soldiers for what to expect when World War I erupted in 1914. More than 40 years had elapsed since war between France and Prussia ended in 1871 – the most recent ...
Lindsey Fitzharris' new book tells the true story of Harold Gillies, a British surgeon whose team worked to reconstruct the faces of some of the 280,000 men who suffered facial trauma during WWI.