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Four British soldiers who lost their lives during the Korean War and were buried as unknown casualties, have finally been identified, more than 70 years after they fell.
A World War One soldier who was injured and sent home, but then returned to the front where he was killed, has finally been buried close to where he fell.
The grave of a Royal Tank Regiment soldier who lost his life in Italy during World War Two has been identified 81 years after his death.
The grave of a Scottish soldier who lost his life in Italy during World War Two has been identified and rededicated 80 years after his death.
The grave of a soldier of the Middlesex Regiment who lost his life in Italy during World War Two has been identified and rededicated 80 years after his death.
Her Royal Highness The Princess Royal pays her respects to fallen soldiers from the Scottish regiments in northern France.
A letter from Secretary of State for Defence John Healey to serving and former members of the armed forces about the independent inquiry relating to Afghanistan.
The graves of six soldiers who fought and died during World War 1 have finally been marked with their names over 100 years after they died.
The final resting place of a Londonderry-born soldier who died in World War 1 has finally been found, and a headstone installed marking his grave.
The graves of Second Lieutenant (2ndLt) Joseph Bryson MC and 2ndLt William Cunningham have been identified side by side in a cemetery in Belgium more than a century after their deaths.
The grave of Company Quartermaster Serjeant (CQMS) John Doherty MM (Military Medal), who went missing in France on 22 March 1918, has been identified.
The graves of six soldiers from Welsh regiments, who went missing in France and Belgium during World War One, have now been marked more than a century after their deaths.
First published during the 2022 to 2024 Sunak Conservative government
The remains of 14 Commonwealth soldiers who fought in World War One, none of them identifiable by name, have been laid to rest in France.
Two soldiers, whose remains were found in a cave, have been laid to rest with full military honours more than a century after their deaths.
A young soldier who worked as a schoolteacher and played for Bolton Wanderers Football Club has finally been laid to rest in France along with two unknown soldiers, nearly 110 years after his death.
A World War 1 soldier from Dundee who was identified in part through possible tartan fragments and a thistle brooch, has finally been laid to rest with full military honours.
More than a century after his death, the grave of World War 1 soldier Lance Corporal (L/Cpl) Edward Smith has finally been marked.
The graves of five soldiers of The York and Lancaster Regiment, most of whom went missing in France in the weeks before the end of World War One, have now been marked more than a century after their deaths.
The grave of Leeds-born World War One soldier, Lieutenant (Lt) Charles Stewart Cautherley of 1st Battalion Hertfordshire Regiment, has now been marked more than a century after his death.
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