His name resonates with images of decisive victories and unwavering resolve, forever etched in the annals of wartime w.

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and was posthumously awarded the Victoria Cross for his heroic actions at the second battle of El Alamein. It will also include an image of Sapper Jamie Larcombe, who was killed in action in the ...

Peeps’ recent series on Victoria Cross recipients has prompted an intriguing query from a reader about a decorated D-Day hero who gave his life in the bitter fighting just a week after the landings.

Following an accident which resulted in a leg injury, he rejoined his battalion before the battle of El Alamein. Kibby was posthumously awarded the Victoria Cross for his actions over several days.

It started with a small gathering on 21st April 1951 at the cenotaph near the Johannesburg City Hall commemorating soldiers who had died in the first and second world wars ... the ninth anniversary of ...

By July 1942 the battle in North Africa became critical for the British Eighth Army, with German and Italian forces reaching El Alamein in Egypt, about seventy miles from Alexandria. The 9th Division ...

There have long been rumours that the building of the subterranean bunkers and passage had been for Field Marshal Bernard Montgomery, the best known British general of the second world war, famous for ...