Carton de Wiart died in 1963 at the age of 83, but his exploits have inspired generations of service members in the United ...

The expert view: ‘For a long time, it wasn’t really well known that British soldiers had been shot in the First World War, and this film opened a door to our understanding of it. It gives an ...

For enslaved Black Americans living through the Revolutionary War, freedom sometimes meant donning the red coat of the enemy. Such was the case for the Carolina Corps, a military unit comprising ...

Here, shortly after the outbreak of the First World ... (See how World War I energized mapmaking at National Geographic.) Photographed in 1917, an endless line of Russian soldiers sit patiently ...

A new museum is to be established to tell the story of Irish soldiers in the British Army down the centuries. The £13.6 million (€16.3m) project will be developed across two sites in Northern Ireland, ...

The titles of these First World War poems alone tell ... the war when the morale of the British Army is known to have been particularly fraught. “Historians today tend to frame these as crisis moments ...

The war was a time of change for the treatment of injuries and illness. Injured and sick soldiers needed to be treated quickly so they could go back to fighting as soon as possible. Casualty ...