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The heroic performance of soldiers from Australia and New Zealand in the ill-fated First World War Gallipoli campaign was marked at the Royal Bermuda Regiment’s Warwick Camp yesterday. Citizens of both countries and Bermuda residents joined together ...

A prison officer convicted of an attempt to smuggle a mobile phone to an inmate has lost an appeal in the Supreme Court. Kadeem Abraham admitted that he had accepted an item to take to an inmate, but claimed he only took it so he could examine it. Ma...

Changes in the administration of payments to families of elderly war veterans were defended yesterday by the Ministry of Finance. Officials said a new system for the payments, which included processing of claims overseas, was introduced last year to ...

Christmas started early at a nursing home yesterday as volunteers from a professional services firm delivered hampers of food and gifts to four resident war veterans and widows. Janet Whitwell-Caisey, the director of nursing at Westmeath home in Pemb...

A former Royal Marine and his wife marked Remembrance Day with their own tribute to fallen soldiers at the Royal Naval Cemetery on Ireland Island South. “It struck a chord with me,” said Jonah Jones, who paid respects on November 11 at the graves of ...

Last month, I travelled to Vienna, the former seat of the Austro-Hungarian Empire and a fitting place to contemplate the approaching 100th anniversary of the conclusion of the First World War. That conflict began with Austria-Hungary’s declaration of...

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...