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The British government agency Her Majesty's Court and Tribunal Service recently went live with a searchable database built from 278,000 scanned and digitized World War I soldier wills.
British and Canadian authorities have given seven soldiers killed more than a century ago in World War I a full military burial after their remains were discovered during a gas pipeline ...
The Princess Royal paid her respects to two unidentified World War I soldiers who were buried in a cemetery in Loos-en-Gohelle today. Gun salutes sounded out as the two brave British soldiers ...
2024 The healing of a British World War I soldier at the Marian shrine of Our Lady of Lourdes in France has been proclaimed as the 71st miracle attributed to the pilgrimage site. Archbishop ...
From reproductive rights to climate change to Big Tech, The Independent is on the ground when the story is developing. Whether it's investigating the financials of Elon Musk's pro-Trump PAC or ...
British soldiers from the Royal Welch Fusiliers ... that even the most virulently antiwar of the famous soldier poets of World War I felt the lure of battle. “He was not eager to die,” Michael ...
The British writer Rudyard ... according to the archive notes. World War One, also known as the Great War, claimed the lives of more than nine million soldiers. Spain, in the economic doldrums ...
was that he and the many thousands of other underage soldiers — van Emden has calculated that around 250,000 enlisted in the British Army during World War I — did make a difference.