Dominic served for 23 years in the British Army with operational deployments in Iraq, Afghanistan, the Balkans and Northern Ireland. Originally a cavalry officer in The Royal Scots Dragoon Guards he ...

Stories categorised in 'Arnhem 1944'. These stories may contain references to other themes. There were stories in the newspaper we could now afford to buy about black-clad Romans bombing the... Lt ...

The ultimate sacrifice of a British soldier who jumped in front of a grenade to save a mother and her son during the Battle of Arnhem has been revealed 75 years later. Private Albert Willingham acted ...

Three veterans of one of World War II's bloodiest battles have taken part in a memorial parachute jump. The men were honouring their comrades who died in the Battle of Arnhem, which began on 17 ...

Fred Terry Platoon Sergeant 21-9 wounded (in the neck) and prisoner of war Newspaper Agency/Mayor of Middleham. Passed away at 81 year (1996) John Kimber Lance sergeant 21-9 wounded (in the head) and ...

Some 1,500 people, including a 97-year-old veteran, took part in the commemorative parachute jump A mass parachute drop has taken place in the Netherlands to mark the 75th anniversary of Operation ...

At the annual ceremony held every September to commemorate the battle of Arnhem, the Allied attempt to capture nine bridges across the Netherlands in the autumn of 1944, local schoolchildren lay a ...

Stories categorised in 'Arnhem 1944'. These stories may contain references to other themes. The Germans came and we were taken, by train, to Stalag X1B, Near Fallingbostell, Hanover, Germany. Then ...