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 ...

Britain’s youngest First World War fighter was just 13 when he saw action in Battle of the Somme, after he tricked officers and ... During WWI the British Army recruited 250,000 boys under ...

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 ...

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.

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 ...

British army officer Alfred Dougan Chater wrote the letter to his mother from a freezing trench on the western front in 1914, describing an event remembered as a moment of fleeting humanity in a ...

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 ...