Raymond Whitwell, who died just 11 days after Armistice Day last month, was given a guard of honour at his funeral in Old Malton, North Yorkshire. Parachute Regiment veterans from The Falklands War, ...

A key heritage site commemorating one of the most famous campaigns fought by British soldiers during the Second World War has become a battleground between residents of the Dutch town of Arnhem and ...

As Allied forces became surrounded during Operation Market Garden, British paratroopers held Arnhem Bridge far longer than expected. Cut off, outgunned, and nearly out of supplies, their final radio ...

75 years after the infamous Battle of Arnhem, rare photos reveal terrifying death and destruction as allied troops struggle to liberate Netherlands from the Nazis. Memorialised in the Hollywood ...

He was the first British paratrooper to bravely set foot on Arnhem Bridge during a fierce 1944 battle immortalised in the film A Bridge Too Far Bill Fulton, who died yesterday aged 88, had parachuted ...

Key point: Operation Market Garden did not go as intended even though Nazi Germany was clearly losing by then. Here’s how things went terribly awry. In mid-September 1944 a mixed force of around ...

Seventy five years ago, a bold plan to end the Second World War by securing a bridgehead into the Rhine ended in bitter failure. Greg Wright looks back at the ill-fated Battle of Arnhem. Did you know ...

Arthur Hendy was born on 13th July 1918. He enlisted for the army in 1937 and joined the Royal Engineers. He completed his basic training and was posted to 1st Royal Engineers Searchlight Regiment ...

OPERATION MARKET GARDEN had gone wrong. Its objective had been to capture bridges throughout the Netherlands to quicken up the Allied advance into Germany. On September 17, 1944, 35,000 men were ...

This story was susbmitted to the People' s War site by Emma Hart from AGC Museum, Winchester, on behalf of Mr David Hutton, and has been added to teh site with his permission. David Hutton fully ...