What strikes me most as I pedal into the village and take a seat overlooking the surrounding landscape is the silence. It’s a late Sunday afternoon in mid-September and aside from a couple of people ...

It’s a tribute to a man who not only shaped the Canadian Army but also, in his own quiet way, helped shape Canada itself.

One of the finest memorials on the Somme is the round tower at the Ireland Peace Park in Messines, erected in the late 1990s.

John McCrae’s world-famous poem, reflecting on the enormous sacrifices of the First World War, will be recited countless times this Remembrance Day, as it is every year. It’s etched into the hearts of ...

Very Rev Dr Alan McDonald, Moderator of the General Assembly of the Church of Scotland 2006-2007. Born: March 1951 in Glasgow ...

John Gomer Morris, who is now a Chelsea Pensioner, spoke to historian DAMIEN LEWIS about his incredible wartime experiences ...

There are dates that do not merely mark time — they expose it. 4 December 1852 is one of them. On that winter day, Paris glittered. The boulevards glowed with festive lights, salons were filled with ...

Two hundred thousand Irishmen - give or take the dead, the maimed, the mad, the misremembered - who put on British khaki and ...

World War I fighting officially stopped at 11 a.m. on November 11 in 1918. Ceremonies marking the anniversary took place around much of the world, including the Menin Gate at Ypres in Belgium.

It’s a profound experience to visit Ieper with all its Irish and especially Kilkenny connections. Of the over 55,000 names on ...

Private George Arthur Pearson served with the 4th Battalion, and was killed by a mine on July 6, 1916, while deployed with ...

S.D. & G Highlander, Regimental Sergeant-Major Eugene R. Leroux, proudly carries Canada’s World War II flag, the Red Ensign, ...