A former head of the Royal Navy in Scotland has recalled how he spent VE Day fearing the Second World War would continue for years in the Far East.

Captain Bryan Warren, 87, a veteran Argyll and Sutherland Highlander, shared memories of being evacuated as a child to Bournemouth, and seeing D-Day aircraft overhead. His lifetime of service included ...

Vice-Admiral Sir Thomas Baird, 100, began his 41-year Navy career aged 17 when he served as a midshipman, a sailor of the lowest rank, on HMS Trinidad ... our radio. “World War II ended for ...

Recollections of evacuation, rationing and life after the war have also been documented in the book, My Life Through WW2. The book records ... and was 18 when he joined HMS Rowley, which was ...

A World War II-era Philippine navy ship to be used as a target in a combat exercise by American and the Philippine forces ...

The war also claimed his older brother Leslie, who had been a telegraphist on HMS Penelope and died when she was sunk off the Italian coast near Naples in February 1944. The veteran has since been ...

Images from the seas show the busy crew of the HMS Prince of Wales and the Carrier Strike Group it is leading. The vessels are continuing on the Royal Navy's key deployment of 2025. Scenes include ...

Armed forces from Nato allies will join a procession in London to mark the end of the Second World War in Europe, as Sir Keir Starmer said this week’s events are a reminder that victory was “not just ...