armed forces day Articles

What does the Royal Navy mean to me? Microwave chips and turkey dinosaurs. That is what my six year old brother and I lived on for a lot of the nine months my Dad spent in the south Atlantic while my mum was heavily pregnant with my youngest brother. It means other...

Every year, Armed Forces Day reminds me just how important the military community is to my town. Colchester is a proud garrison town, with military traditions stretching back generations. The army community is an important part of the town, with conflict and ceremony...

We all know the importance of the work done by our armed forces. These brave men and women voluntarily put themselves in harm’s way so that we can sleep soundly in our beds. Sent to battlefields across the world at the request of our government, often at short notice,...

One of the most shameful things I’ve ever done was to write a school essay, aged nine or 10, arguing that Remembrance Sunday should be scrapped. My case, from memory, was that it all happened a long time ago, and we shouldn’t dwell on the past. My teacher wrote a...