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By the end of 1945 troops were back home in the UK. But a UK that looked very different from the one they’d left when at the outbreak of war.
Aged 17 when the Falklands War broke out, John Sheppard recalls his time as a young chef on board MSV Stena Seaspread during the conflict.
The Gulf War, fought from 1990 to 1991, saw the largest use of British troops in one deployment since the Second World War.
When Poppy Pawsey was medically discharged she struggled to adapt to life outside the military.
Donna Stonelake is a former Royal Navy Able Rating and mother of three whose husband, Mark, was injured whilst serving in Afghanistan.
In the UK there has been a huge increase in funding to help communities understand and celebrate the fight for recognition of Commonwealth soldiers.
The Fourteenth Army played a vital role in the victory over Japan. Learn why they were called the 'Forgotten Army' and uncover their overlooked sacrifices.
Explore the history of VJ Day, marking Japan’s surrender in 1945, and learn about the vital role of Commonwealth and Allied forces in the Far East campaign.
Discover how Bergen-Belsen became an infamous Nazi concentration camp in WW2 and what happened when it was liberated in 1945.
The end of WW2 didn’t result in the immediate end of service for millions of British and Commonwealth troops.
At the end of WW2 millions were homeless, transport links had been destroyed, and many nations’ industry were in ruins.
Harry Leigh-Dugmore was evacuated from Dunkirk as part of Operation Dynamo in May 1940. Read his remarkable story.
Rajindar Singh Dhatt was born in Punjab and joined the army in 1941. He was part of the relief at Kohima and Imphal before serving in the gruelling Burma campaign.
Nicholas Bennion is from the Pacific Islands of the island of Fiji. He joined the British Army in 2000 leaving his home and moving 9,800 miles to the UK.
Three generations of the Nixon family will visit Anzio and Monte Cassino to re-live the hardest fought battle of the war.
2020 marks 70 years since the start of the Korean war, a war that has never formally ended and many believe has been forgotten.
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