An incredibly poignant last letter home from a tragic Tommy to his army veteran dad days before he was killed in the First World War has been unearthed 111 years later. Lance Corporal William ...

Over 100 years on from the start of the First World War, the British Army is learning ... the Great War still resonate with serving soldiers today. WW1: Did the machine-gun save lives?

In the letter, which I recently ... his now 16-year-old son "off the army" It is estimated that about 210,000 boys and young men answered the call to join the British war effort.

In a ‘living memorial’ to the British soldiers killed in the Somme, young men dressed in WW1 uniforms appeared at stations and in city centres all over the country. In towns and cities ...