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

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.

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

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 ...

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

The use of gas in warfare can be traced back to Antiquity. Though crude in their make up, these ancient chemical weapons ...

IN the worst snowstorm in a generation 100 years ago this weekend, one of the Tees Valley’s most illustrious sons was killed when his ...

New regimental colours for the Royal Guernsey Light Infantry were consecrated and accepted by the Lt-Governor Sir Richard ...