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Shining a light on the immense contribution made by black men and women over centuries in fighting for Britain.
Originally from Jamaica, Albert Jarrett, 96, signed up to join the RAF in 1942 on the island before travelling to the UK in 1943.
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.
To mark Commonwealth Day and International Women’s Day, we're celebrating how their roles have changed over the last 100 years.
Spies, Polish countesses and the legendary Colonel Buckmaster, Noreen Riols recalls her memories of the Secret Army.
Roy Cockburn left school at 18 to join the army. Three years later he was a Second Lieutenant leading patrols behind enemy lines at Normandy.
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.
From his pioneering work at Bletchley Park during WWII to his arrest for homosexuality and eventual pardon, we look at the legacy of Alan Turing.
After joining the Army at 18, Len Burritt served on the frontline in more than 100 battles in 15 countries, including the Battle of El Alamein in 1942.
At 18, Kenneth Lown joined the Fleet Air Arm of The Royal Navy and trained as an Observer.
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 was at school in Ghana when the Second World war broke out. In 1943 he joined the army and was drafted to serve in the 82nd West African Division alongside Gurkha and British forces as part of the Fourteenth Army.
Bill Harrison flew Beaufighters during the Second World War. He talks about crash landing, taking fire, and the comrades he lost.
During the Second World War Jane Eldridge was a Cypher Officer, travelling with Winston Churchill to Canada.
Tom Boardman became a prisoner of war when British forces surrendered to Japan in Singapore in 1942.
Alec Penstone was 15 years old and worked in a factory when war broke out in 1939. After volunteering as a part time (Air Raid Precautions) messenger during the Blitz he joined the Royal Navy.
In 1941 Des Lush joined the RAF with hopes of becoming a pilot. Three years later he flew his first operation as a Bomb Aimer.
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.
While sisters Pat Davies & Jean Argles served in the Second World War as codebreakers, their father had been captured and taken as a prisoner of war in the Far East.
