On April 5th, 1942, two Royal Navy heavy cruisers, hms Cornwall and Dorsetshire, were patrolling the Indian Ocean west of Ceylon. They were unaware that the full strength of the Japanese First Air ...
At 11.45am, on Oct 21, 220 years ago, Vice-Admiral Horatio Nelson ordered the most famous military message ever sent to be ...
Thousands of British colonial troops who died in the Second World War are to be commemorated properly for the first time ...
HMS Stirling Castle has left Merseyside and is heading to her new home at HMNB Portsmouth. After being handed over from the Royal Fleet Auxiliary (RFA) four months ago, the mine-hunting ship departed ...