While disinterring a mass grave of what were believed to be 24 Germans buried in the Cherbourg cemetery, a Volksbund team discovered one of Baskind’s identification tags and remnants of an ...

The German investigators therefore placed the remains in seven burial pouches and then re-interred them in the Marigny German War Cemetery, 40 miles south of Cherbourg, the DPAA posted.

When Benjamin Patterson stood at the grave of a 23-year-old World War II combat engineer from North Lawrence, he didn’t just ...

The Vickers Wellington bomber, led by Sgt Oldřich Helma, had departed from East Wretham in Norfolk on the night of July 1, ...

The grave of a serviceman who was killed during the retreat to Dunkirk during World War Two has been rededicated in his family's presence after more than 85 years. Major Richard White-Cooper of the ...

During the war, the Thuilliers’ yard became a makeshift studio. Eventually, they painted a backdrop featuring classical ...

The graves of two soldiers who died during the Battle of Normandy have been formally identified 80 years later. The Ministry ...

The grave of a notable soldier who fought in the Battle of Waterloo has been restored by volunteers. Sgt William Lawrence's posthumously published autobiography was one of the most famous first ...