British Army’s ageing tanks date back to when ‘Elvis was the Christmas No.1 in the early 1960s’

British Army’s ageing tanks date back to when ‘Elvis was the Christmas No.1 in the early 1960s’: MPs warn that ‘obsolescent’ vehicles could cost lives in damning report MPs have demanded action be taken over the army’s ageing armoured tanks  They say some of them date back to when ‘Elvis was the Christmas number one’ … Read more

Soldiers at work, rest and play: The winning entries in Army’s annual photography competition

Soldiers are snapped playing volleyball, parachuting, and sleeping after exhausting operations in candid behind-the-scenes photos of life in the British Army. Winning pictures in the army’s annual photographic contest show the complex and diverse characters which make up the armed forces. This year there were a record number of 946 still imagery submissions and 116 … Read more

SEBASTIAN SHAKESPEARE: SAS hero launches full frontal assault on the Army’s diversity drive 

General Sir Mike Rose was Commanding Officer of the SAS when it brought the Iranian Embassy siege to an explosive end and, two years later, when it achieved extraordinary success in the Falklands War. But he has arguably saved his most devastating assault till now. It comes, I can disclose, in the form of a … Read more

British Army’s Information Warfare Unit will be deployed to tackle anti-vaccine propaganda

The British Army’s Information Warfare Unit will be deployed to tackle anti-vaccine propaganda ahead of the coronavirus vaccine rollout, it has been revealed.  Soldiers are already monitoring cyberspace for Covid-19 content to find out how British citizens are being targeted online, leaked documents showed. It comes amid a rise in the number of anti-lockdown and … Read more

Jamaica-born public school boy British Army’s first black officer

The discovery of a war plaque has rewritten history books to reveal Walter Tull was not the first black British Army officer.  Experts believed that Tull, an ex-Tottenham Hotspur footballer, was the first black man to be commissioned and also killed fighting in the Great War in 1918. But a plaque honouring Lieutenant Euan Lucie-Smith, of the … Read more

General says mothballing British Army’s tanks is ‘very dangerous’ in face of threat from Russia 

Mothballing the British Army’s tanks to cut costs is a ‘very dangerous’ idea in the face of the threat from Russian, a former Army chief has said. General Lord Dannatt described the notion of storing the army’s entire force of hundreds of tanks and armoured vehicles until there was a crisis as ‘misguided’. The former … Read more

Army’s iconic bearskin hats worn by the Queen’s Guard are under threat

The iconic bearskin hats worn by the Queen’s guards for more than 200 years are facing a threat from from Brexit deals as activists push to ban fur sales.   Discussions have been held between animal welfare minister Zac Goldsmith and Humane Society International UK (HSI) as the Government aims to ‘raise standards’, two decades after … Read more

D-Day hero who captured the German army’s tallest soldier in World War Two has died aged 97 

5ft 3in D-Day hero who captured German army’s 7ft 6in giant in World War Two dies aged 97 Corporal Roberts took the surrender of 7ft 6in Jakob Nacken in September 1944 Before that he was nearly killed several times during the Battle of Normandy  He died in his sleep at Bournemouth Hospital on August 1 … Read more