Almost all British families had relations or friends who served in the armed forces during the two World Wars. Sadly, many perished or were wounded in the course of their military duty. Our extensive records will help provide information about the time your ancestor spent when serving King and...
Militarythe practice, on the part of naval officers of a belligerent nation, of boarding and examining a suspected neutral vessel at sea in order to ascertain its true nationality and determine if it is carrying contraband:the right of visit and search. ...
D 56 Article Military parade 16 August 2012 Part of the British Army for nearly 200 years, Nepalese Gurkhas are renowned for their skill and bravery. For Monocle, these Gurkhas swapped their distinctive uniforms for bold, smart civvies.
View a map of the principal destinations given in series E 157 – both civil (individuals travelling from England to the Low Countries to visit family or on business) and military (soldiers, including mercenaries, engaged on the Protestant side against the Catholics during the final ...
This comprehensive military history collection includes more than 8.7 million records of men and women who enlisted to serve in the United States Army during World War II. These transcriptions include enlistments from 1938 to 1946. The original punch cards enlistees completed when they joined the ar...
Although he initially claimed that it was a case of mistaken identity, he finally confessed after his fingerprints proved to be a match with those found in his military records. During his trial, he claimed that he had murdered his family to spare them the shame of his worsening financial ...
The first days of January are for rest and recuperation but also new ideas, resolutions and, above all, dreams. This month we’re at London auction house Bonhams for a conversation that reflects on jewellery design and human emotion with expert Kate Flitcroft. We’ll meet British artist and ...
In a way, Apollo was more of amilitary-industrial victory than a scientific one—but without science, theynever would have made it at all. So yeah, theydidn’t do it for the science, but theycouldn’t have done it without the science. ...
Achieving what is required requires Good Governance, not limited government focused on building the military might to "be balanced with perceived military threats" or the more troubling belief that a nation's best future is achieved by being the "potentially most harmful pursuer of perceptions of ...
as if they had that position because of some other initiative that had nothing to do with their qualifications and capabilities as their crew members. I am offended that the commander in chief of the United States military would actually say that about the soldiers that he has sworn to lead....