Flight Lieutenant Charles Herbert Collet DSO (4 February 1888 – 19 August 1915) who led the first British air raid of the war was a...

On 11 November 2018, tens of thousands of people took part in Pages of the Sea – a commissioned art project by filmmaker Danny Boyle,...

Major Actions & Engagements of Royal Marines in the RND 1914-18 4th to 9th October 1914: Defence of Antwerp: (Portsmouth, Plymouth,...

Wilfred Owen (1893-1918) - who was born in Oswestry on the Welsh borders, and brought up in Birkenhead and Shrewsbury - is widely...

The Royal Marines - A Geo History 1664 to Present The Globe & Laurel March/April 2018 by Simon Biggs Even before I was a young Marine in...

The Royal Marines A Geo History 1664 to Present This page is a work in progress as I try to code it, please check back regularly. In the...

The Christmas truce (German: Weihnachtsfrieden; French: Trêve de Noël) was a series of widespread but unofficial ceasefires along the...

"In Flanders Fields" is a war poem in the form of a rondeau, written during the First World War by Canadian physician Lieutenant-Colonel...

At dawn on 20 November 1917, the British Third Army launched an attack towards Cambrai using innovative methods that were to become a...

Part of the Third Battle of Ypres, the Battle of Menin Road was a testing place for the British. They countered a tactic that had been...

Officially known as the Third Battle of Ypres, Passchendaele became infamous not only for the scale of casualties, but also for the mud....