Gordon Cummins was a seemingly ordinary RAF airman. But amid the darkness of blackout-era London he became one of the city’s ...

A woman who was the last known female survivor of a World War Two campaign has died at the age of 100. Cicely Ball, who lived in Rustingdon, died at home on April 5. Cicely was born in Ootacamund, ...

Navy WAVES veteran Peggy Lutz is celebrating her 103rd birthday on April 10. Lutz was part of a sea change, having joined the ...

Women demanding functional, capacious pockets in their garments is not a new phenomenon — but one stretching back hundreds of ...

Many royal family members, like Queen Elizabeth II and Prince Edward, served in the military.

Here and below are some of the Japanese avant-garde designers, photographed for T over the course of a few months, who have ...

It seems like everyone is getting new uniforms these days, and the Navy Midshipmen men’s lacrosse team is no exception.

Also in 1947: Chicago Cardinals owner Charles Bidwill died of pneumonia, leaving the team to his widow Violet Bidwill. She ...

A talk by 102-year-old Manette Baillie about her life in the Wrens during the Second World War attracted a record crowd in Saxmundham.

In World War II, the 150,000 volunteers for Women’s Army Corps (WAC), who served in non-combat roles, carried regulation leather purses as part of their uniforms, which included faux pocket flaps.

Jack Dougherty was just 21 years old in 1945 when he and fellow soldiers came across something they could not fathom — the ...