Lest we forget: GMP band to lead Manchester’s Centenary Remembrance Day parade
The city of Manchester will come together to take part in a Remembrance Day parade led by Greater Manchester Police Band on Sunday November 9.
The city of Manchester will come together to take part in a Remembrance Day parade led by Greater Manchester Police Band on Sunday November 9.
More than £6,000 has been raised for a veteran’s charity through the sale of limited edition military style Bolton Wanderers shirts.
Limited edition military style green shirts are to be launched as Bolton Wanderers’ third kit in support of Blesma, The Limbless Veterans.
War Horse at The Lowry is a powerful display of art in action backed by the heart-warming and evocative narrative of the novel by Michael Morpurgo, who made a special appearance on stage
Proud patriotic Brit Paul Rushton has won a battle against housing inspectors – for the right to fly the Union flag outside his Bolton home.
A World War One army officer who carried on fighting the Germans despite losing BOTH legs as he led his troops into battle has finally been honoured with a military parade in his home village near Altrincham – 100 years on from his death.
Manchester’s iconic cenotaph is receiving its finishing touches after relocating to another part of St Peter’s Square.
Mancunians will be encouraged to get in the saddle this summer and prepare for a number of special events to commemorate World War One – including the National Theatre’s production of War Horse.
Greater Manchester Police have seized a horde of firearms, including a missile, believed to have been from the First and Second World Wars at a house in Dunkfield.
Historians have been set the challenge of finding the last resting place of 21-year-old Franciscus Alphonsus Van den Eynde who died in Salford a century ago.
Hundreds of Mancuians are set to honour the city’s service men and women and celebrate those who lost their lives for Armed Forces day.
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