The Second Boer War began in 1899 ... During the war, the British army experienced great difficulty in finding fit young men to recruit as soldiers. Before men could join the army, they had ...

Born in 1921 in pre-partition India, Dhatt joined the British Army when the Second World War broke out. Enlisting himself in the army, Dhatt rose to the rank of havildar major and saw action in ...

statue of a Sikh soldier has been unveiled in a town centre to commemorate 100 years since the end of World War One (WW1). The bronze work in Smethwick honours service personnel of all faiths from ...