Tag: Heroism

British veterans mark 82nd anniversary of D-Day

Survivors honoured at ceremony to remember those who died while turning the tide...

Major Pat Gardner, Marine awarded an MC in Malaya who w...

Throughout his time in Malaya, he displayed outstanding offensive spirit, leader...

Daily tot of rum kept Britain’s oldest Second World War...

Shipmates provide a fitting send-off to Harry Waddingham who miraculously surviv...

Major Clifford Oliver, SAS staff sergeant decorated for...

Oliver was part of a small team who parachuted in terrible weather into the mid-...

Harry Waddingham, oldest known British veteran of the S...

Harry Waddingham, who has died aged 109, was the oldest known British veteran of...

Sqn Ldr Kenneth Drury, Lancaster navigator awarded the ...

He survived a raid on Berlin when Bomber Command lost nearly 12 per cent of the ...

Charles Richards, Chindit who left a vivid account of j...

The Japanese would try to infiltrate at night and cried: ‘Johnny, where are you?...

Jim Wren, last survivor of the sinking of the Repulse i...

‘The noise and the rattle of gunfire was terrific. All of a sudden she just roll...

Lalbahadur Pun, Gurkha awarded the MC for his courage d...

His MC citation stated: ‘This was an outstanding example of inspired leadership ...

Rear-Admiral John Roberts, naval aviator who served in ...

He helped to fight off an invasion of British Honduras in an operation he descri...

Flight Lieutenant Jack Dark, navigator and bomb aimer i...

The Pathfinder Force was brought in to improve accuracy and part of Dark’s job w...

Aberdeen commando Jimmy Johnson’s remarkable life shows...

The north-east commando won the Military Medal and was regarded as a hero by his...

Mike Pratt GC, off-duty policeman who took on three ban...

He drove up onto the kerb to block the bank’s door and armed himself with a carj...

Field Marshal Lord Guthrie of Craigiebank, Chief of the...

‘Probably the last British officer to have had a spear thrown at him in anger’, ...