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On Christmas Eve 1942, the Manchester Guardian recalled that the first world war had only lasted four Christmases. Now, Hitler’s war also had “four to its discredit, each one more austere than its predecessor”. Christmas 1942 would be a sadly pared-back affair. Cards were tiny and printed on thin card.…

Two Victorian cabmen’s shelters were also listed at Grade II along with an 18th-century watermill drawn by the famous landscape artist John Constable.

There is more than one front in Europe’s almost 10- month-long war. The first is in the mud, where the worst trenches and dugouts in Eastern Ukraine are starting to bear more than a passing resemblance to scenes from the First World War. The second can be seen from space:…

Jones takes four famous figures who served in Thessaloniki during the first world war and imagines how their stories could have overlapped

Councillor Jacqueline McLaren is desperate to find out if any photographs exist of her maternal grandfather Private Allan Hannah McIlvennie who served with the Cameron Highlanders during the First World War.

At one freshly-dug First World War-style trench, just over a mile from Russian positions, Major Nazar, 38, with the 63rd Mechanised Brigade told the Mirror they come up against Russian conscripts

The country fell silent at 11am to mark the anniversary of the end of the First World War.

Services were held across the country for the anniversary of the end of the First World War, with a two-minute silence observed at 11am

Family history website makes cache of documents from National Archives available for public to view

A secret message about living through the First World War has been discovered inside of a violin. The couple who found the message have shared their discovery.

Every year, the Poppy Appeal helps to support thousands of serving and ex-serving Armed Forces personnel and their families - here are details about what the poppy symbolises