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“The image of just them marching up with the Union Jack draped over… he's come back home now.”
“When you suddenly realise, this is actually someone's friend, son, husband, boyfriend: it really makes everything real.”
“It’s so important to remember people who are able to give up everything for something more than themselves.”
James Franklin was underage when he enlisted with the Canadian Expeditionary Force in 1915. A year later he was on the Somme’s front line.
An extraordinary legacy of family service spanning four generations explored
Inayat Ali served in India and the Far East during WWII and was present at Partition in 1947, leaving memories of momentous events for his family.
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.
Raffaello Moscardini, 95, joined the Royal Air Force as a wireless operator in 1943 and was sent to war in the Far East.
Lance Corporal Stanley William Topham, 4th Battalion Royal Norfolk Regiment, was held as a prisoner of war for three years after he was captured by the Japanese in Singapore during the Second World War.
3 Para Patrol Company veterans Mark Hunt, Yanto Evans and John Pettinger reflect on their service in the Falklands War on a trip back to the island.
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-and-friends-kuala-lumpur-1945.jpg?sfvrsn=3e95a932_4&method=CropCropArguments&width=452&height=452 "Raffaello (bottom left) and friends Kuala Lumpur 1945")
