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February 25, 2012 Dear Sir, A recent documentary film entitled “West Indies Calling” has recently been uploaded to the internet at http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ViGwxJloI70. The film is of interest as it contains a shot of a Bermudian woman, apparen...

Samuel Houghton seldom spoke of his four years as a prisoner of war in Nazi Germany, and threw away most of the medals he later received. There are few former inmates from Germany's Milag Nord camp still alive. Mr Houghton, who died on February 19, w...

I’ll Be Home for Xmas - ?!! By Cpl. J. Clifford, P.O.W. Christmas Day in Gefangenschaft [captivity] 1940 ‘41 ‘42 ‘43 Well once again we have reached it “IT” being the (fifth) last one behind barbed wire. It’s a long, long time ago since we began to ...

For Bermudian David Perinchief, who served in Iraq with the US Marine Corps, the official ending of the nine-year conflict in Iraq offered a chance to reflect on a task accomplished. “There’s no real difference in how I feel,” Sgt Perinchief said fro...

Hundreds gathered before the Cenotaph monument in a moving Remembrance Day tribute to Bermuda's war dead and surviving veterans. Yesterday morning's ceremony also saw, for the first year, the laying of wreaths at the nearby war memorial where the nam...

The Air Forces Memorial, or Runnymede Memorial, near Egham, Surrey, England is a memorial dedicated to some 20,456 men and women from the British Empire who were lost in operations from World War II. All of those recorded have no known grave anywhere...

Prior to the Second World War, Elizabeth Bickley enjoyed “a happy, modest and sheltered upbringing” with her family in Thuringia, Germany. But once the war broke out, she said it “changed everything”. Her oldest brother, Wolfgang, who was studying t...

Local war veteran Allan Doughty is in his 89th year, but can still vividly recount details from the Second World War. He enlisted in the army at age 18 and served for exactly five years and three months as a drill and weapons instructor, beginning in...

Danny Mannus was 12 years old and living in Belfast, Northern Ireland when the country experienced its first major air raid on the night of April 7, 1941. His father had joined the Royal Air Force at the outset of the Second World War, leaving his m...

Veteran Earl Darrell was 18 years old when he enlisted as a soldier with the first Battalion Caribbean Regiment in the Second World War. He left the Island on April 23, 1944 and travelled to four continents America, Europe, Africa and Asia. “Of cour...