President Donald Trump faced backlash on Saturday after he decided to skip a visit to a World War I cemetery in France for American soldiers, citing bad weather. One critic included Nicholas Soames, ...
Following President Trump’s return on 11 November 2018 from a controversial visit to France in which he did not attend a memorial commemorating the 100th anniversary of the armistice that ended World ...
Manicured lawns and gleaming white headstones now welcome visitors to the World War One cemeteries of France and Belgium. But a century ago, these soldiers' graves were marked with simple wooden ...
Commemorative crosses which once marked the temporary graves of World War One soldiers are on display at a new museum. The small exhibition has been converted from a former gravediggers’ hut at ...
R.G. Grant, World War I: The Definitive Visual History The Notre Dame de Lorette military cemetery near Arras in northern France is the burial place of 40,000 French soldiers. Each grave is marked ...
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Nobody alive today fought in the First World War. Although countless Second World War veterans still live around the world, the time will come far too soon when that group is no longer with us. I ...