Lieutenant Edward Packe flew over the Western Front battlefield in a two-seater BE2c biplane at 7.30am on July 1, 1916. He was shot in the buttocks by a German fighter at 2,000ft.

Since Queen Victoria instituted the Victoria Cross in 1856, five American-born men have received Britain’s highest military ...

With every rifle earmarked for a soldier, there was a likelihood this soldier would be placed on a battlefield and told to ...

Men joined up and fought in World War I, also known as the Great War, for all kinds of reasons; some fought for the Empire, ...

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The exhibition at Dovecot Studios in Edinburgh will also look at how the four artists interacted with their UK contemporaries ...

James Alexander Mann, who was an aspiring writer and actor from Edinburgh, died just five days after his 21st birthday after ...

The XB-1 is a demonstrator for the future Boom Overture, which aims to be the first supersonic passenger aircraft made in the ...

Never has so much been written in so little time about the inauguration of a country’s president and his first week in office ...