So people like my great-great-grandfather Peter chose to become soldiers. SOLDIER: That’s right. My friends and I all knew this was an emergency. We wanted to help. We all lived in Edinburgh and ...

The image of a soldier in a muddy trench is what many people visualise when they think of the First World War. However, most soldiers would only spend an average of four days at a time in a front line ...

Every volunteer had to undergo a series of medical and fitness tests before being accepted as a soldier. New recruits were then given months of basic training in camps all over the country where they ...

Ten Pakistani soldiers were killed in southwestern Pakistan while responding to "cowardly acts of terrorism", the country's military has said, after dozens of civilians died in coordinated ...

The show includes reportage work, detailed topographical drawings of battlefields and artwork for magazines produced by and for serving soldiers. The exhibition accompanies a new title about Shepard’s ...

The war was a time of change for the treatment of injuries and illness. Injured and sick soldiers needed to be treated quickly so they could go back to fighting as soon as possible. Casualty ...

we could not escape the dangers... and your Abuelo was lost.” ―Abuela Alma telling how the soldiers killed her husband. The soldiers are never truly seen in person. They were shown in a flashback as ...

Soldiers fall in for an inspection prior to the start of the Saturday, March 23 battle in Knights Ferry, with two days of Civil War reenactments and encampment staged on March 23 and 24. Battles were ...

The common red soldier beetle is also known as the 'bloodsucker' for its striking red appearance, but it is harmless. It is a beneficial garden insect as the adults eat aphids, and the larvae eat ...

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