A ban on homosexuals serving in the British military was not lifted until 2000. Restoring cap badges to discharged service personnel was among the recommendations made by an LGBT independent ...

The poppies are priced at £3.50 each and all profits go to the Royal British Legion. Follow BBC Stoke & Staffordshire on BBC ...

A man who sold fake military medals and poppy pin badges has been ordered to repay more than £50,000 he made from the scam.

Veterans dismissed from the armed forces for being gay say the government is offering insufficient compensation. The total ...

The London Gazette, one of the official journals of the British government, has citations of every gallantry award soldiers received in the war. Local newspapers have started digitising their ...

Once a year in November, British people (royals included) honor fallen troops by wearing a crimson poppy. A century-old tradition, the flower has now come to symbolize hope and gratitude.

At the Military Museum Scotland resides a vast array of artefacts and memorabilia dating back to Waterloo. Stemming from the ...

After the death of his wife, local newspaper writer Tony (Ricky Gervais) gets stuck on the second stage of grief: anger. With nothing left to live for, he decides to fill the lives of everyone ...

Credit: AP/Alastair Grant Some participants wore “I am Peter Lynch” badges and one man held a fishing pole with a sign ...

Soldiers will soon be able to show that they served in combat and excel in their job field by wearing a single badge on their uniform. A new Master Combat Badge is being rolled out for combat ...

The words will now be used as an official unit motto however, the FIDF cap badge will remain unchanged ... UK standards and work closely alongside British Forces South Atlantic Islands to ...

British Columbia, Ontario, New Brunswick and Nova Scotia in what it says is an effort to throw cold water on the federal government's plan to implement an emissions cap on the oil and gas sector.