Rare folding bicycle carried by British paratroopers as they parachuted into occupied Normandy on D-Day goes up for auction for £8,000 Bikes intended to help airborne troops cover ground quickly and quietly in 1944 Most of metal bikes were unceremoniously ditched once troops reached ground Private collector selling bike from estate of late member of … Read more
Rare folding bicycle carried by British paratroopers as they parachuted into occupied Normandy on D-Day goes up for auction for £8,000 Bikes intended to help airborne troops cover ground quickly and quietly in 1944 Most of metal bikes were unceremoniously ditched once troops reached ground Private collector selling bike from estate of late member of … Read more
Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny appeared in court this morning where he faces up to three-and-a-half years in jail for ‘violating probation.’ Dozens of his supporters were rounded up by riot police outside the gates of the Moscow court and another 20 were detained at a nearby metro station. Only his wife Yulia was allowed … Read more
A large swathe of the D-Day hards have been uncovered after stormy weather and scouring tides revealed the infrastructure that is usually buried beneath the sand at the Hampshire Beach. The concrete D-day loading platforms, built in 1942 for use by Landing Craft Tank ahead of the invasion on the beaches of Normandy, appeared in … Read more
A quirky narrow house lived in by the same 83-year-old man for nearly all his life which is ‘like a museum’ and filled with retro fittings has gone up for sale. The narrow house, on Millbrook Road East, in Southampton, Hampshire, somehow crams in three bedrooms, and four reception rooms across three floors and is … Read more
The family of a D-Day veteran with Alzheimer’s who died in a care home said today that the ‘hardest bit’ was not being able to hug him. World War Two hero Jim Pass, originally from Castleford, West Yorkshire, died aged 102 on November 4 shortly after testing positive for coronavirus. He had been moved into … Read more
Tributes have poured in for a second world war hero after he died in hospital after contracting coronavirus. Frederick Glover – who was known as Fred – was the only British infantryman known to have fought with the French Resistance. The veteran was due to be honoured by the French next year with a street in … Read more
A British D-Day hero has recreated a touching wartime photograph with a Belgian friend he last saw as a boy during the Second World War. George ‘Bunny’ Avery, 98, last saw Urbain in 1944, when he lodged with his family at a bakery in Peer, Belgium while building Bailey bridges to help the Allies. The pair had posed … Read more
Early on a sunny midsummer morning, a car carrying four British agents through the peaceful countryside of the remote Sologne in the Loire Valley drove straight into a German ambush. Two of the passengers had just arrived from England by parachute and the car boot was filled with weapons, as well as radio crystals and … Read more
Once used as a top secret base where Winston Churchill formed the final plans for D-Day and met with ministers and allied leaders, Droxford Station is now for sale. The property is steeped in history but is mostly famed for its use by Churchill in June 1944 where the victory strategy for World War II was … Read more