Richard Absolon was born in England, but in 1972 his family moved to New Zealand, taking up farming in Marton. In 1980, aged 18, he returned to Britain and joined the army, where after six months ...

HALBE, Germany — In a forest near Berlin, the remains of 107 fallen Wehrmacht soldiers were ceremoniously interred last week. High school students placed white gerbera daisies on small black ...

LETTERS sent by a solider during the First World War have been unearthed by his relatives. Donald Marston was from Ludlow and was first sent for army training in 1914. His great-grandson Herbie ...

A minister has hit back at Donald Trump’s idea of renaming VE Day and downplaying Europe’s involvement in the war. VE Day, ...

Russia lacks any formal, organized effort to account for legions of missing soldiers. That often leaves relatives in limbo, fending for themselves with scant government information. By Neil ...

It was May 4, 1945. Adolf Hitler's Third Reich was in its final hours and Nazi soldiers alternated between fighting to the death and surrendering. The war diary of the guards regiment records ...

VE Day marked the end of World War Two in Europe. Huge crowds took to the streets on 8 May 1945 to sing, dance and rejoice ...

Copyright 2025 The Associated Press. All Rights Reserved. Copyright 2025 The Associated Press. All Rights Reserved. with the remains of fallen German soldiers of WWII ...

Donald Marston was from Ludlow and was first sent for army training in 1914. His great-grandson Herbie Westhorpe, from Kimbolton, was recently given Mr Marston's letters that were sent home to ...