A regiment's colours remain its most precious possession, cherished through history as a symbol of honour and pride.

1849 marked the last year of the Great Famine and while Athy had suffered none of the losses of the population as suffered on the western seaboard in the south of Ireland, deaths in the Athy Workhouse ...

A former wartime evacuee took a trip down memory lane when a military museum brought along a treasure trove of artefacts to the Welsh care ...

ahead of the 2026 Welsh Senedd elections. “I think this by-election is more important than even the residents of Trevethin and Penygarn realise,” said former army major Mr Keyte who served 21-years in ...

Llywelyn ab Iorwerth, also known as Llewelyn the Great - one of only two Welsh rulers bestowed with this title - was a medieval prince who ruled over Gwynedd in 1200 and dominated Wales for over ...

And that's no surprise, because Scotland's Atholl Highlanders have the honour of being Europe's only - and the world's oldest - private army. The infantry regiment have served as the personal ...

Waddington, from Cambridge, served in the Army as a member of the Second Battalion, the Royal Anglian Regiment. He was set for deployment in Afghanistan but voluntarily withdrew from the Army when ...

This is despite landmark treaties, such as the U.N. Convention on the Rights of the Child, and its Optional Protocol to prohibit the recruitment and use as soldiers of all children under eighteen ...

Hywel's father Alan received an OBE in 2019 for his services to charitable fundraising in Wales, while his grandfather Ted, a Welsh ... with the Royal Engineers and came out of the Army in 1946.

Overseas tours were naturally thin on the ground last year, given the royal family’s double health drama. But after a successful, if gruelling, visit to Australia and Samoa, Palace sources were ...

Fellow soldiers say the Army sergeant who set off the explosion could have done far more harm. Investigators are trying to figure out why he didn’t. By Dave Philipps A career Army Special Forces ...