On Monday morning, SSAFA marked 80 days until its upcoming VE Day 80 concert on 8 May with a display of a full-size replica Spitfire outside the Royal Albert Hall. World War II veterans and other special guests were invited to mark the occasion.
Read moreOn February 14, 1885, The Times published a letter from Major – later Colonel Sir – James Gildea asking the public to support the wives, widows, and children of soldiers and sailors who were killed, injured, or rendered incapacitated through service to Queen and Country.
Read moreOn Tuesday, 4 February 2025, the Forces Employment Charity (FEC) celebrated 140 years of providing life-long, life-changing support, jobs and training opportunities to Service leavers, veterans, reservists and their spouses, partners and children.
Read moreThroughout his long, long career Stan, who began as a Wireless Operator, flew in – deep breath – the Anson, Hudson, Dakota, Valetta, Hastings, York, Lincoln, Canberra, Halifax, Lancaster, Oxford, Beaufighter, Shackleton, and Nimrod as well as the nuclear strike V-Bomber trio of the Victor, Valiant, and Vulcan, the latter as both the testbed for the Concorde engine at Filton and on standby in the Cold War as an Air Electronics Officer.
Read moreA new memorial for the LGBT+ armed forces community will be constructed in the National Memorial Arboretum in Staffordshire.
Read moreFWP is delighted to announce the winning design in the competition to provide the National LGBT+ Armed Forces Community Memorial, at the National Memorial Arboretum, the nation’s year-round place of remembrance and reflection.
Read moreAJEX would like to encourage as many people as possible from across the community to come and support the marchers at the AJEX Remembrance Parade & Ceremony on Sunday at Whitehall at 2pm.
Read moreHousing support for UK veterans has been guaranteed after the government committed new additional funding for veterans’ homelessness support programmes
Read moreA Nuneaton-based former Major in the Queen Alexandra’s Royal Army Nursing Corps is one of more than 40 veterans, carers, and staff from Help for Heroes, who will pay tribute to their fallen comrades in the Cenotaph march-past on Remembrance Sunday (10 November), in London.
Read moreDefence Secretary John Healey paid tribute to the thousands of personnel and military veterans across the country as he made a poppy wreath for Remembrance.
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