AN exhibition is to be held in West Cumbria to mark the end of World War II. The exhibition is being supported by Cleator Moor Town Council and the Wath Brow Royal British Legion and will take place ...

People employed across certain industries vital to keeping the country running would be exempt from the draft and it is likely the same rules would apply if WW3 was to break out.

By the close of 1941, women and 'all childless widows' aged 20 to 30 were conscripted, alongside men up to 51 for military ...

John “Paddy” Hemingway, the last surviving pilot who flew during the Battle of Britain, has died at the age of 105.

A fighter pilot in a vastly outnumbered Royal Air Force — one of the “few” hailed by Churchill — he took to the skies to help ...

Dubliner, Second World War RAF hero, and one of the most revered figures in British aviation history, Group Captain John "Paddy" Hemingway, passes away peacefully.

The island was sold in 1927 to filmmaker Archibald Nettlefold, who built a more substantial hotel in the Art Deco style, ...

The last conscription in the UK was more than eight decades ago during World War 2 and, like back then, certain call-up ...

II, and were the only ones allowed to take on a combatant role by the British Army. However, many of them have been forgotten These women were active throughout Nazi-occupied Europe, but most women ...

It was the “Friendly Invasion” which turned our fields into a “little America” and now your memories are being sought for a major ...