THE remarkably well preserved remains of a British officer, killed in one of the bloodiest battles of the First World War, have been discovered in the mud of Flanders. Did you know with a Digital ...

Written by a Scottish officer, it began: 'Christmas will remain engraven on the memory of many British soldiers who were in our trenches here as one of the most extraordinary days of their lives.

Two years before, in 1915, he became one of the first black British officers of WW1. But the 1914 Manual of Military Law effectively barred what it called "any negro or person of colour" from ...

Second Lieutenant Walter Tull – the first black officer in the British Army. Walter was cut down somewhere here, near the tiny French village of Favreuil, 14 miles south of Arras, on March 25 ...

More than a century after his death, the previously unmarked grave of Captain Ernest Cecil Blencowe has finally been ...

Yours Sincerely Edgar H Collcutt Capt.RE It astonishes me that with about 900,000 British servicemen killed in the war a commanding officer could find time to write such a personal letter.

Walter Tull was the first black officer in the British Army but was killed in action in 1918. Morpurgo, who has written a book based on Tull's life, says the footballer and Army officer was an ...

In the depths of World War I, British officers Elias Henry Jones and Cedric Waters Hill escaped the brutal conditions of an Ottoman POW camp in a remote area of Turkey. They didn’t dig ...

During WWI, hundreds of thousands of soldiers ... This title made him one of the only black men serving as an officer in the British Military. Despite a clear barrier in the law that restricted ...

British intelligence officers in the First World War suspected ... The second batch of WWI diaries has been published by The National Archives in Kew, London, to mark this year's centenary of ...