A popular Capital Region bridge is being renamed after an American hometown hero who fought in the First World War. On Tuesday, New York lawmakers proposed new legislation to rename the Patroon Island ...

The marker honors 1,250 Black college graduates who underwent U-S Army Officer training at Fort Des Moines in 1917 during World War I. At the onset of war, the U.S. War Department doubted whether ...

This week's Remember When features Maidenhead Carnival and a call to protect the town hall from future redevelopment.

The grave of a missing World War One soldier has been identified in Belgium. Capt Ernest Cecil Blencowe of the Dorsetshire Regiment died in February 1916 trying to get control of The Bluff, an area of ...

Jay Singh-Sohal has received an OBE in the 2025 King’s Birthday Honours list for his work honouring Sikhs serving in the ...

Keysor had won Britain’s highest military honor for heroism, the Victoria Cross, as a bomb thrower (hand grenade) during the ...

African prisoners in German camps were studied by ethnographers, who recorded their voices. What they had to say is poignant ...

Lee Mack discovered his great-grandfather survived the Somme - and then performed comedy for troops straight off the ...

Many people are aware—consciously or instinctively—that the world’s first successful powered aircraft flight took place in a ...

Two families linked by a heroic Scottish horse that served in some of the bloodiest battles of World War One have met for the first time. When the conflict started in 1914, Vic was a farm horse owned ...

McNeill then travelled to France and trekked across the Pyrenees mountains into Spain where he joined, trained with and then fought for the International Brigades. The Australian fought in the ...