Britain’s Princess Anne has joined a dawn ceremony near the World War I battlefields on Turkey’s Gallipoli Peninsula to ...

As the faint glimmer of dawn bounced off the waters of Gallipoli on April 15, 1915, Private Dick Clarke huddled in ...

Prime Minister King promised a trade treaty with the U.S., passing the 1935 Reciprocal Trade Agreement. In 1936, his ...

Solanco High School students experienced WWI history firsthand by digging trenches, enhancing their learning with real-world ...

Australians, including many thousands of Diggers fighting in Europe, voted against conscription during the Great War. It was a blow to then-prime minister Billy Hughes.

While most Ukrainians fight valiantly for their survival, some men have chosen to illegally avoid conscription. Now a ...

A Leopard II battle tank is on display to advertise for joining the German army Bundeswehr at the Essen Motor Show in Essen, Germany, Friday, December 1 ... of the Second World War” have ...

From 1899-1908, he was chaplain to the British Embassy in Petrograd. Formerly St Petersburg, it was changed to Petrograd in the First World War, as the name ending ‘burg’ was thought to be too ‘German ...

One of the last surviving veterans of the Second World War has been sharing his experience of being held as a prisoner of war and returning to his life in Surrey. Eric Reeves, 104, joined the ...

former head of M16 and ex-spy said the Government could require powers to compel Britons to 'give their service one way or another'. He suggested a new type of enrolment for conscription ...

Participants could opt to spend one weekend ... Conscription ran in the UK from 1916-1920 and again from 1939-1960. It was renamed “national service” after the Second World War.

In the Q&A below, I respond to audience questions on defence, duty, national service, and the meaning of loyalty in an increasingly uncertain world ... minimum age for conscription is above ...