After British forces won the Falklands war, her popularity soared, allowing her to call a general election in 1983 which she won by a landslide. Mrs Thatcher established and chaired a small war ...
The team won the hockey tournament and received gold medals. The article, by Dr Stephen Palmer, covers Ballion’s early life, his service in World War I, and later career as a brewer in Northampton.
A medal expert has told a misconduct panel he is "110% sure" a Falklands War medal alleged to have been worn by a suspended chief constable was a copy. Northamptonshire Police's Nick Adderley is ...
A shocking little-known toll of the Falklands War is revealed today ... SAMA - the South Atlantic Medal Association, which represents and helps Falklands veterans - believe some 264 veterans ...
Rarities are always prized (short lived campaigns with comparatively few combatants, such as the Falklands conflict, tend to mean fewer medals) while additional bars (especially those for a well-known ...
May 2 marks the fortieth anniversary of the first and only sinking of a warship by a nuclear submarine. By successfully sinking the Armada de la República Argentina’s (ARA) light... Britain’s ...
This instalment of the BBC series was a repeat of an episode which originally aired back on January 14, 2024, and featured Fiona Bruce meeting up with Falklands War veteran Simon Weston by a ...
Whatever your opinion on the moral rights and wrongs of the Falklands War, it is inescapably one of the most significant historical events of the 1980s. When Argentinian dictator General Galtieri ...
and alleging a war crime. Before November last year, the whereabouts of Damtew’s star-shaped brooch were unknown. It’s unclear if the Italian soldier stole the gold medal from his body when ...
President Joe Biden on Friday posthumously awarded the Medal of Honor to five minority soldiers from the Korean War who may have been denied the nation's highest decoration for valor by a 1950s ...