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We remember the service and huge sacrifice of British and Commonwealth forces 70 years after the fighting of the Korean War ended.
The battle continued for weeks after D-Day in the villages, towns, fields and hedgerows of Normandy, with the allies experiencing heavy casualties.
Hundreds of thousands supported those at the front line. Here are their stories, from extraordinary feats of engineering to receiving communications from the beaches.
Commonwealth forces outnumbered British forces in the Far East, and they were essential in bringing the war against Japan to an end.
Gurkha Nick Tamang served in 12 Platoon, D Company and was deployed to the Falklands in 1982. Forty years on he remembers his time in the conflict.
Trevor Bradshaw was only 21 when The Falklands War began. Now a counsellor, he looks back on his experiences from 1982.
Forty years since the conflict, Royal Navy veteran Charlie Threlfall recalls his time in the Falklands and surviving the perils of San Carlos Water.
Sergeant Johnson Beharry was awarded the Victoria Cross, the highest award for gallantry, for extreme heroism in 2004.
“Unbelievable! Can you believe this happened!… and then next day you go off and do it again.”
“I can’t remember the life expectancy they’d given us, but it wasn’t long.”
“Until you are in a war zone, you don’t know what it means.”
“I think Iraq should be remembered for all those people that have lost their lives… I was always proud to wear that uniform, serving in the Royal Navy.”
“I spent so much time with them, as they’d often be with us for months, that it felt like they were family.”
“(The military) does the fighting, but it also does the rebuilding. And it's the second part that we don’t get enough real recognition for.”
Feel-good cook Melissa Hemsley is helping us celebrate VE Day with her root veg fritters recipe, inspired by the waste-not rationing mentality of World War Two.
Available from October 2023, the new poppy is made entirely from paper and can be recycled in ordinary paper recycling collections.
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