He spent nine months guarding the young Princess Elizabeth and her sister Margaret before being tragically killed just days before the end of World War Two. Lieutenant Robin Tudsbery was just 25 when the armoured car he and two comrades were traveling in was blown up by a mine in the German town of Kutenholz … Read more
A Sea Cadet lieutenant commander accused of cruelly abusing dozens of young teenagers spent years mixing with dignitaries, including Prince Andrew. Peter Sherwin once rubbed shoulders with the Duke of York during a royal ceremony at cadet site TS Stirling in Birmingham in 2001. Sherwin was regarded as a ‘pillar of the community’ prior to … Read more
A Sea Cadet lieutenant commander accused of cruelly abusing dozens of young teenagers spent years mixing with dignitaries, including Prince Andrew. Peter Sherwin once rubbed shoulders with the Duke of York during a royal ceremony at cadet site TS Stirling in Birmingham in 2001. Sherwin was regarded as a ‘pillar of the community’ prior to … Read more
Lieutenant John Chard’s handwritten account of the Battle of Rorke’s Drift – where a British garrison held off 4,000 Zulu warriors – sells for £175,000 Lieutenant Chard of Royal Engineers was one of 11 men awarded Victoria Cross Account of the battle was auctioned at Bonhams in London on Thursday The collection, sold by his … Read more
Lieutenant John Chard’s handwritten account of the Battle of Rorke’s Drift – where a British garrison held off 4,000 Zulu warriors – sells for £175,000 Lieutenant Chard of Royal Engineers was one of 11 men awarded Victoria Cross Account of the battle was auctioned at Bonhams in London on Thursday The collection, sold by his … Read more
Army officer ‘100 per cent’ let down his wife when he ‘chickened out’ of reporting Lieutenant Colonel ‘for groping her bottom on hospital visit to see her injured son’ Lieutenant Colonel Gordon Edwards, 59, ‘sexually assaulted a colleague’s wife’ A trial at Bulford Military Court in Wiltshire heard how he ‘squeezed her bottom’ Soldier’s wife … Read more