On 21 June 2022, 4 serving Royal Navy Submariners (Captain Elton Sharkey, Commander Richard Cragg, Lieutenant Commander Callum Fraser and Lieutenant Commander Hugo Mitchell-Heggs) successfully swam across the channel.
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On 21 June 2022, 4 serving Royal Navy Submariners (Captain Elton Sharkey, Commander Richard Cragg, Lieutenant Commander Callum Fraser and Lieutenant Commander Hugo Mitchell-Heggs) successfully swam across the channel.
Read moreEx-servicemen and women at The Royal Star & Garter Homes have paid their respects on Remembrance Day at services in Surbiton, Solihull and London.
Read moreSkillForce is celebrating an incredibly successful 2018 Prince William Award Graduation Event.
Read moreA Charity that cares for ex-Servicemen and women and their partners living with disability or dementia has launched its annual Remembrance campaign to mark the upcoming Armistice centenary.
Read moreThis weekend, Minister for Defence People and Veterans Tobias Ellwood attended the Ministerial Five Eyes Conference in Sydney, where he joined delegates from the United States, Canada, Australia and New Zealand to discuss best practice in care for ex-service personnel.
Read moreThanks to a grant award of £97,444 by the Forces in Mind Trust (FiMT) to Edinburgh Napier University, an innovative research project will test how prevalent a new type of Post-traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD), known as Complex PTSD (CPTSD)*, is in ex-Service personnel in order to provide more appropriate treatment.
Read moreSpecialists from leading security and intelligence consultancy, Blackstone Consultancy, will be taking part in the London to Brighton Cycle Ride this weekend to raise funds for Blesma, a charity dedicated to assisting serving and ex-Service men and women who have suffered life changing injury.
Read moreThe Officers’ Association (OA) is currently conducting a research project on the employment barriers and challenges to older Service leavers for which we are running group discussions in different parts of the UK. The aim of the discussions is to learn about the experiences of ex-Service personnel who made their transition into civilian work at the age of 50+.
Read moreThe wartime heroics of Broughton House veterans are described in a new book compiled by a volunteer at the Salford home for ex-servicemen and women.
Read moreWelsh local taking on challenge for her fellow veterans in need.
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Afghanistan support
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