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Torfaen Museum remembers the life of Victoria Cross recipient John Fielding (or John Williams) who is buried in Llantarnam.

On July 2, 1863, Private John C. West of the 4th Texas Infantry fought in the unsuccessful assaults the regiment made on Little Round Top. That view of the countryside

THEATRES, museums, libraries and leisure centres owned by taxpayers were in talks to be handed over to be run by a charitable trust, under a radical…

The Christmas truce, a poignant moment in a long war, was a reality for many Scots soldiers, thanks to a compassionate Aberdeen minister.

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The last of the 876 Cambridgeshire Regiment soldiers who fell in the First World War has been honoured, 100 years after his death.

The newly appointed general-in-chief of Union armies, Ulysses S. Grant, decided to make his headquarters with the Army of the Potomac rather than in an office in Washington, D.C. Leaving George G. Meade in charge of the details, Grant sent the army not after Richmond, as his predecessors had done, but after Robert E. Lee and his Army of Northern Virginia. The resulting Overland Campaign in the spring of 1864 led to bloody battles at the Wilderness and Spotsylvania Court House. In spite of casu...

Conviction of man who murdered two Irish soldiers in 1980 Long running trial over Lebanon killings Reporter: );  ); The Minister for Defence, Simon Coveney, has been notified of the conviction by a Lebanese Military Tribunal of the perpetrator of the murder of two Irish soldiers in Lebanon in 1980. On April 18, 1980, Private Thomas Barrett and Private Derek Smallhorne were murdered and one soldier, Private John O’Mahony was seriously injured in the same incident in Lebanon. The personnel we...