Low water levels after a drought and heatwave are stopping cargo vessels from sailing fully loaded on the Rhine river in ...

Lieutenant Colonel John Frost led the 2nd Parachute Battalion in the assault during the Battle of Arnhem, a key component of ...

Mr Roberts, who turns 100 on Saturday, received his MBE from the Princess Royal at Buckingham Palace. "I'm surprised actually ...

On the eve of his 100th birthday Battle of Arnhem warrior Geoff Roberts receives his MBE at Buckingham Palace.

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The daughter of a World War Two veteran recognised in the King's Birthday Honours said it took "a while" for her father to come to terms with the news. Geoffrey Roberts, 99, from Peterborough, will ...

On September 17 1944, he flew into the Netherlands as part of Operation Market Garden – depicted in the 1977 Hollywood film A Bridge Too Far – which saw 35,000 British, American and Polish ...

The new commemorative plate created by Even tot hier is composed of hundreds of compiled photographs of soldiers from the unit commanded by British Lieutenant Colonel John Frost. Together, the photos ...

It nearly worked. The Americans secured all their bridges, and a British battalion captured the northern end of the Arnhem bridge. But constant German counterattacks slowed XXX Corps’s advance.