Empire General

Times Online - 12 hours ago

After the two minutes silence, the prayers and the sermon remembering lives sacrificed and innocence lost, two soldiers whose bravery entitles them to wear the Victoria Cross walked along the nave of Westminster Abbey. Lance Corporal Johnson Beharry and ...

Times Online - 13 hours ago

A wave of bitter collective grief is beginning to break across the land of the stiff upper lip. You can sense it every time another funeral cortge wends through Wootton Bassett. You could feel in the subdued crowd that packed Whitehall on Sunday. You can ...

Times Online - 14 hours ago

After the two minutes silence, the prayers and the sermon remembering lives sacrificed and innocence lost, two soldiers whose bravery entitles them to wear the Victoria Cross walked along the nave of Westminster Abbey. Lance Corporal Johnson Beharry and ...

Times Online - 15 hours ago

A wave of bitter collective grief is beginning to break across the land of the stiff upper lip. You can sense it every time another funeral cortge wends through Wootton Bassett. You could feel in the subdued crowd that packed Whitehall on Sunday. You can ...

Guardian.co.uk - 19 hours ago

We keep hearing about a lack of equipment in Afghanistan; yes, protection is vital, but soldiers understand war is not risk-free In the first world war, about 885,000 British soldiers died over the course of four years. In the second, about 382,000 ...