Lance Cpl. Joshua Leakey, a 27-year-old paratrooper in the British Army, received the Victoria Cross on Thursday. It was the first time a living soldier received the medal, which has only been ...

A collection of medals including a Victoria Cross won by an Army officer for his bravery in a controversial war during the era of the British Raj has sold for £420,000 at auction.

Let’s take a look a British Columbia’s story told through its museums (in alphabetical order): Art Gallery of Greater ...

The 27-year-old British Army paratrooper received the Victoria Cross for braving enemy fire to tend to Marine Capt. Brandon Bocian, a U.S. infantry officer, who was wounded in an hourlong ...

The Royal Navy, plainly a bunch of woke progressives, has long embraced (full) beards; the Royal Air Force has allowed them since 2019. Army traditionalists have no truck with such nonsense.

This work completes noted naval historian Dr. Friedman’s history of the origins, evolution, and service of the British battleship that began with his excellent 2016 book The British Battleship: ...

Beards had been banned in the British army until this time, but the freezing temperatures of Crimean winters, and the impossibility of getting shaving soap, led to a necessary change.

Victoria Cross: The ten living recipients of Britain's highest military honour IT is the highest British military award and is given for valour "in the face of the enemy".

By the 1890s, there were a number of Egyptians and Sudanese who were recruited into the British Army to play music for colonial regiments - so Jimmy Durham was not alone. But his story was unique.

The Victoria Lines are a series of fortifications built by the British military during the last quarter of the 19th century. Their defining feature is a continuous infantry wall, more than 12 ...

Lance Cpl. Joshua Leakey, a 27-year-old paratrooper in the British Army, received the Victoria Cross on Thursday. It was the first time a living soldier received the medal, which has only been ...