Metal detectorist reunites navy medic’s family with First World War medal after unearthing it in his back garden Mark Williams, 71, discovered the 105-year-old medal in his garden in Hampshire With help of genealogist, he found the medal belonged to William George Waters Mr Waters, who eventually became chief medic in the Royal Navy, joined in … Read more
A desperate race against time is underway to find relatives of a First World War hero before his medals and ‘heartbreaking’ letters home from the trenches are auctioned off near Remembrance Sunday. More than 100 years after Sgt Sam Atherton wrote to his parents from France, the young soldier’s letters and medals were found stored … Read more
David Walliams discovered his great-grandfather was a WW1 hero who spent 43 years in a mental asylum after being driven insane by the horrors of conflict on an upcoming episode of Who Do You Think You Are? The BGT judge, 49, was left devastated as he uncovered his paternal great grandfather John George Boorman suffered … Read more
Scientists have pinpointed a freak ‘climate anomaly’ which they say was to blame for ‘substantially’ increasing casualties during the First World War and in its aftermath. In total, some 8.5million troops died fighting between 1914 and 1918, with some of the heaviest losses coming on the waterlogged battlefields of Verdun, the Somme and Ypres, as … Read more
Trump incorrectly states that the Spanish Flu ended WW1 and persists on saying the virus began in 1917 – when it gripped the world in 1918 Trump has frequently drawn comparisons between Spanish Flu and coronavirus Last night he claimed the Flu ended WW1 because the soldiers all got sick He also repeated his belief the … Read more