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Captain Richard Akinwade grew up in Scotland. He was the first person of West African descent to obtain an Army officer’s commission, serving as an Army Surgeon during WWII.
From an early age, Joan admired the RAF and loved football. As Wing Commander and the RAF’s representative to the FA Council, she has been able to embrace both.
From Jamaica to Seaford in Sussex and finally to the Western Front, Robert’s story was uncovered by his niece. Today this often-overlooked piece of British history inspires a new generation.
2025 marks 80 years since the end of the Second World War, with Victory in Europe (VE) Day on 8 May 1945 and Victory over Japan (VJ) Day on 15 August 1945.
1944 was a pivotal year in the Second World War. As well as the Battle of Normandy, we remember other landmark battles from Italy to India that paved the way to peace.
Forty years since he served as a Corporal in the Royal Corps of Transport, David Sismey looks back on his time on tour in Belfast.
Richard Vaughan was completed his National Service on 16 May 1963, making him the last National Serviceman to complete his service in the UK.
Denis Sparrow joined the Royal Marines as a teenager in 1958, serving for nine years in locations including Aden.
Captain Noel Chavasse is one of only three people to be awarded the Victoria Cross twice – and the only VC and Bar of the First World War.
Spies, Polish countesses and the legendary Colonel Buckmaster, Noreen Riols recalls her memories of the Secret Army.
The gravestones of the first and last British soldiers to be killed in WWI sit opposite each other in the St Symphorien military cemetery in Belgium.
For more than 20 years the story of Passchendaele survivor Arthur Roberts lay in the attic of a house in a quiet suburb of Glasgow.
Known as The Flying Sikh of Biggin Hill, Hardit Singh Malik was the first Indian pilot of WWI and would go on to become a distinguished diplomat.
Joshua was 19 when he joined the Army in Gold Coast (now Ghana) and went on to serve in the Far East campaign in pre-partition India and Burma.
Joseph Hammond, from Ghana, joined the army in 1943 and bravely served In Burma in the 82nd West African Division, experiencing intense fighting.
Born in pre-partition India in a village in Rawalpindi Muhammad Hussain, 95, was 16 years old when he ran away from home to enlist in the British Indian Army during the Second World War.
