Armistice Day is a memorial day observed in Commonwealth of Nations member states since the end of the First World War to remember the
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Festival of Remembrance
The Royal British Legion’s annual Festival of Remembrance takes place at the Royal Albert Hall on Saturday 10 November 2018, the day before Remembrance
On This Day – 6 November – So, Why Pickle Night?
In 1974 the President of the Senior Rates’ Mess at HMS Nelson asked HMS Nelson’s Commodore for permission to celebrate Trafalgar Night in the same
On This Day – 6 November – John Richards Lapenotière
Captain John Richards Lapenotière (1770 – 19 January 1834) was a British Royal Navy officer who, as a lieutenant commanding the tiny topsail schooner
On This Day – 6 November – Third Dispatch
Such a Battle could not be fought without sustaining a great Loss of Men. I have not only to lament, in common with the
On This Day – 6 November – Second Dispatch
The Commander in Chief in the Victory led the Weather Column, and the Royal Sovereign, which bore my Flag, the Lee. The Action began
On This Day – 6 November – First Dispatch
On Monday the 21st Instant, at Daylight, when Cape Trafalgar bore East by South, about Seven Leagues, the Enemy was discovered Six or Seven
On This Day – 6 November – The Origins of Pickle Night
For the five days since Nelson had died at the close of battle, Admiral Collingwood was in charge of the victorious but battered British
On This Day – 30 October – U559 and Enigma
It was her own demise that made her most famous. At about 05:00 on 30 October 1942, U-559 was spotted by a Royal Air
On This Day – 28 October – Formation of the Royal Marines
The ‘first official’ unit of English Naval Infantry, originally called the Duke of York and Albany’s Maritime Regiment of Foot and soon becoming known