In 1952, the veterans transformed the "moth-eaten rag" into a tribute to the POWs of the 4th Battalion who died and to mark ...

Noel Duckworth, George Easingwood and John Beckett were captured with the 2nd Battalion The Cambridgeshire Regiment at the ...

AS the war in Europe ended on VE Day - May 8, 1945 - fighting continued in the Far East and Pacific until August 15, 1945, when Imperial ...

Captain Gilbert Inglefield had met British Army Chaplain Fred Stallard onboard a troop transport heading to the Far East in the autumn of 1941, just as Japan was about to enter World War II. The pair ...

A MEMORIAL with an extraordinary south Durham connection will be central to Britain’s commemorations of the 80th anniversary of VJ Day on Friday.

Maurice was a gunner in the 18th Infantry Division deployed to Singapore when Japan invaded in 1942. He would be one of around 130,000 British, Indian, Malayan and Commonwealth soldiers to be taken by ...