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The contribution of the Bermuda Militia Artillery during the First World War was honoured yesterday. Dignitaries and uniformed services laid wreaths at the BMA memorial in St George to mark the 100th anniversary of the end of the conflict. Fred Richa...

Soldiers will line up with other groups to mark 100 years since the Armistice that ended “the war to end all wars”. Troops from the Royal Bermuda Regiment will join forces with churches, Government House and the Government in a series of events desig...

Forgotten stories of the First World War have been given pride of place at the Bermuda Historical Society’s museum. The relics from the epic conflict, which ended 100 years ago with the Armistice of November 11, 1918, have been highlighted as the soc...

A charity set up to care for ex-servicemen is to publicise the island’s role in the First World War with a special poster and booklet to mark the centenary of the Armistice. The Bermuda Legion has produced a poster with details of every Bermudian who...

A former Miss Teen Bermuda who became an international award-winning midwife has spearheaded an attempt to make sure women in war-torn Syria get proper maternity care. Pandora Hardtman set up a programme to promote safe births in the devastated Middl...

United States Army Specialist Gabriel David Conde, 22, was a child when his nation invaded Afghanistan in 2001. This week he became the latest American casualty in the continuing war there. According to Pentagon officials, Conde was hit by enemy gunf...

I understand what President Donald Trump was trying to express in his now-famous “Mission Accomplished” tweet on Saturday. And in fairness, in the military we often do use that expression to convey the successful completion of a discrete tactical tas...

During a visit to Ohio to promote his infrastructure plan on March 29, Donald Trump dropped one of the bombshells that Americans have become accustomed to over the past year and a half: “We’ll be coming out of Syria, like, very soon ... let the other...

The gap between the policies pursued by Donald Trump’s administration and what the President says when he is outside the range of a teleprompter continues to be disconcertingly wide. At a rally in Ohio last Thursday, Trump suddenly blurted that he mi...

Muriel Archer, a missionary who survived a Japanese prisoner-of-war camp in the Second World War, has died aged 96. Ms Archer smuggled bibles into countries where preaching Christianity was forbidden and was dedicated to prison teaching and fellowshi...

“Great-power politics is back,” is a mantra civilian and military officials have repeated with increasing frequency over the past half-decade. The diagnosis has now been formally enshrined in the Trump administration’s National Defence Strategy, a su...

A Second World War US Navy officer who held one of the most closely guarded secrets of the conflict has died at the age of 100. Jim Humphreys was one of the few people who knew a German U-boat captain was being held in Bermuda to hide that his submar...