Victoria Cross awarded to WWI hero who took on 100 Germans armed with machine guns sells for £320,000 ○
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His medals had resided in Lord Ashcroft's VC Gallery at the Imperial War Museum until its recent controversial closure. His family decided to sell it through London-based auctioneers Spink & Son.
3 months ago
Europe commemorates Armistice Day, marking the end of World War I ⊖
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Belgium unveiled a renovated memorial in Ypres, France's President Macron paid tribute, and the UK held wreath-laying ceremonies for Armistice Day, marking the end of WWI.
A ray of light amidst the horrors of WWI: Stoic troops in the trenches and heroic female workers back home are seen in moving pictures released to mark Remembrance Sunday ⊕
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The painstakingly restored photos, from the archive of the Daily Mail, feature in a new book alongside the hugely moving words of some of Britain's greatest First World War poets.
The WWI sniper who killed 100 Germans: How deadly Scottish sharpshooter led crack team of 24 men who shot dead 3,000 enemy in two years - as medals go on sale ⊖⊖⊖
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The exploits of a ruthless sniper who killed more than 100 Germans in the First World War can be revealed with the sale of his medals. Lieutenant Neville Methven led a unit of 24 men.
Messages in a bottle from WWI soldiers found on Australian coast ○
The notes were thrown overboard just a few days into a voyage to join the battlefields of France more than a century ago.
4 months ago
Remembrance Sunday parade held every year since WWI is cancelled amid claims of health and safety issues ⊖
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Veterans have reacted with dismay at the decision to call off the Upton Remembrance Sunday parade on the Wirral, with the event scaled back to a simple wreath-laying.
Have you news of My Boy Jack? Rudyard Kipling's heartrending search for his only son after he went missing fighting in WWI is revealed in The Jungle Book author's pleading letters ⊖
In one of the two letters being sold at auction, Kipling pleads with the matron of a military hospital to ask injured soldiers about the whereabouts of his son John.
6 months ago
Meet the family where NINE sons have been RAF pilots... including WWI pioneer, hero member of The Few and now Chinook officer in the Middle East ○
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The Inglis-Williams' are believed to be the family who have contributed the most airmen to the RAF in its 107 year history
The Downton Abbey-style love story between a maid and valet that ended in tragedy: Photos, letters and mementos reveal 'below stairs' romance in shadow of WWI ○
Valet Alf Edwards and kitchen maid Caroline Palmer married in 1916 after meeting when both were on the staff at the palatial Brodsworth Hall in South Yorkshire.
7 months ago
Long lost WWI sketchbook reveals Tommy's view of life in the trenches in the year of the Battle of the Somme ○
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Lieutenant Frederick Holmes was a Chelsea tailor and an accomplished artist before the start of the First World War. He was sent to the Western Front in 1916.