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Heart-warming moment WWII hero, 99, is given guard of honour from NHS medics as he’s wheeled out of hospital after defeating coronavirus Albert Chalmers, who will turn 100 in July, thanked NHS staff for his treatment He recovered from coronavirus after being treated at Tickhill Road Hospital, Doncaster He was wheeled through the hospital as … Read more
A war hero who escaped from Nazi prison camps four times has died at the grand old age of 101. David Thomas Davies repeatedly fled from capture but refused to speak about his wartime experiences for many years – even to friends and family including wife Betty and their four children, Michael, Graham, Andrew and Ann. … Read more
A 97-year-old US Navy veteran isn’t letting the coronavirus lockdown stop him from sharing his love of dancing with the world – quite the opposite in fact. Chuck Franzke, from Wisconsin, has managed to spread joy to millions with his smooth moves, after a video of him boogying to Justin Timberlake’s upbeat hit Can’t Stop … Read more
A Second World War hero who was part of the famous Damusters squadron has died after contracting coronavirus. Kenneth Law Sumner, 96, passed away at Newcastle’s Royal Victoria Infirmary on April 2 after suffering a short illness and testing positive for Covid-19. It comes after two bishops from the same church in Wolverhampton were also … Read more
The tragic tale of a RAF ace who was shot down and killed over Dunkirk while his brother watched from the beaches can be revealed after his medals emerged for sale. Flying Officer Peter Dixon had taken out five German aircraft in five days before he engaged three more Luftwaffe fighter planes on June 1, … Read more
Family of WWII hero and great-great-grandfather, 95, who lost his arm on D-Day can’t give him the funeral he deserves because of coronavirus lockdown Rex Blood was hit in the arm as his unit landed in Normandy in June 1944 He was amputated and survived cancer in the decades that followed Recently he was suffering … Read more
The UN Secretary-General has warned coronavirus is the greatest global crisis since the Second World War and confronting pit will bring a recession ‘that has no parallel in the recent past’. On Tuesday, UN chief Antonio Guterres said at the launch of a report on the socioeconomic impacts of the pandemic that there is also … Read more
The shared hell of the war changed Britain for the better, and so will the current coronavirus crisis, writes RABBI LORD JONATHAN SACKS, pictured When this bleak time is over, when schools and pubs and theatres reopen, when we no longer need fear the warmth of a handshake or the closeness of friends, will life simply … Read more
Last of the Royal Navy WWII destroyer captains dies aged 105: Lieutenant Commander John Manners was commanding officer of HMS Viceroy sinking U-1274 three weeks before end of the war Lieutenant Commander John Manners, was commanding officer of HMS Viceroy Manners oversaw the sinking of German submarine U-1274 in April 1945 Viceroy’s crew found 72 … Read more
Photographs of the day-to-day lives of allied airmen during the Second World War have been remastered and brought to life in stunning colour. Striking 80-year-old images show an American mechanic balancing himself on shells while loading a 500lb bomb mid air; tense RAF paratroopers bracing themselves in the body of an Armstrong Whitworth Whitley aircraft; and … Read more