It's one of the untold stories of World War II: how France whitewashed its colonial troops during the liberation from Nazi ...

A D-DAY veteran who helped liberate the Bergen-Belsen concentration camp has died aged 104. Donald ‘Don’ Sheppard, a dispatch ...

Veterans living at a Barnsley care home received surprise gifts at their end of summer fayre – thanking them for their ...

The son of a piper who led soldiers onto the beaches on D-Day has opened an 80-metre yarn depiction of the landings for the ...

Juno Beach, in Normandy, is where the Canadian 3rd Infantry Division battled ashore on D-Day. I fancied the ghostly voices drifting in with the waves belonged to the callow kids who poured off the ...

Talented knitter Gill Wright is helping to make an “amazing” woollen version of the floating harbour that was key to the ...

Poignant silhouettes which depict personnel who took part in the D-Day landings returned to Portsmouth following the 80th ...

The daughter of a World War Two veteran who took part in D-Day has paid tribute to her "passionate" dad after he died, aged ...

Veterans living at a Barnsley care home received surprise gifts at their end of summer fayre – thanking them for their service and marking the 80th anniversary of the D-Day landings. Handmade ...

Rest in Peace Don.” Mr Sheppard, from Basildon, Essex, described D-Day as a “waste of life” but recognised the landings as being “so important”. He said: “I know we had to defend ...