In the early morning hours of July 19, 1918, 19-year-old bugler Frank Charles Fergus was serving in the Army in France with the 58th Infantry Regiment in the first days of the Aisne-Marne Offensive.
The French Army received its first Griffon Mortier Embarqué Pour l'Appui au Contact (MEPAC) 6×6 self-propelled 120 mm mortar carrier on 19 December 2024. (DGA Techniques terrestres) The French ...
French President Emmanuel Macron has urged young volunteers to "reinforce" army ranks in an address to French military personnel. During a speech at the Army Digital and Cyber Support Command in ...
In a Cape Town memorial opened Wednesday, African "iroko" hardwood posts bear the names and the date of death of 1,700 Black South African servicemen who died in non-combatant roles in WWI.
“With the gradual withdrawal of the Puma, the NH90 Caiman TTH now constitutes the [army’s] main fleet of manoeuvre and assault helicopters, alongside the renovated [H215M] Cougar and the ...
But why was it so important to Germany and why were the British and French so keen to destroy ... World War One for the British army. Where did it all go wrong? WW1: What caused Verdun to be ...
“He suggested us to join the army under a fixed-term contract to see whether we liked it.” In 1963, she married retired French air force colonel Alexis Santini, whom she first met in Indochin ...
A memorial being unveiled in Cape Town this week rights a century-old wrong by recognising the deaths of 1,772 predominantly Black non-combatants who died in Africa in theatres of war, at sea and ...