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Northampton Chronicle and Echo
April 27, 2018
The inquest into the death of a decorated British Army major who died at Northampton General Hospital found that there was little that could have been done to prevent his death by natural causes. Major General Alastair Duncan passed away on July 24, 2016 after a hole appeared in his intestine.
The Times
April 27, 2018
Three British army officers drunkenly clashed with the Latvian police on a night out in Riga despite warnings about the threat of Russian stings planned to make UK troops look like thugs. One of the junior officers was detained for a couple of hours while another was repelled with pepper spray during theÃâà...
Eng.Lsm.lv
April 27, 2018
London newspaper The Times reported April 27 that three officers from the British Army were involved in a drunken confrontation with Riga police April 24. The three officers were reported to be from the Royal Artillery regiment, and the "altercation" resulted in two officers being detained for a couple of hoursÃâà...
Shephard Media
April 26, 2018
As the British Army continues its pursuit of robotic technologies the service is gearing up for the Army Warfighting Experiment (AWE) - Autonomous Land Warrior - at the end of 2018, which will incorporated 72 platforms from 46 different industry partners. During SMi's Robotic and Autonomous SystemsÃâà...
Mirror.co.uk
April 25, 2018
Officially, the British Army should have 82,500 soldiers. But poor retention and recruitment have left it short. The figure is so low it leaves our deployable army smaller than those of Spain and Poland, which have 77,500. Our forces are deployed on more than a dozen operations in areas including Ukraine,Ãâà...
Telegraph.co.uk
April 25, 2018
Britain has agreed to a Ãâã4.4bn acquisition of armoured vehicles for the army without a formal competition between suppliers, MPs have been told. The Defence Select Committee heard that a German-led consortium has almost certainly won the contract to build about 500 “mechanised infantry vehicles”Ãâà...
Army Recognition
March 28, 2018
According to the newspaper website The Telegraph, United Kingdom is closed to release the request of information regarding the purchase of new 8x8 armoured vehicles for the British Army under the program Mechanised Infantry Vehicles (MIV). The Mechanised Infantry Vehicle (MIV) program will deliverÃâà...
The Independent
March 28, 2018
Gen Carter's response to criticism was: “I happen to be very proud of the fact that the British army really does respect the background, ethnicity and gender of anybody. What this campaign is about is a recognition that we don't have a fully manned army at the moment, that the demography of our country hasÃâà...
Sky News
March 28, 2018
Three candidates are interviewed by the Prime Minister - but the successful candidate is the UK's Nairobi-born Army chief. 16:20, UK, Wednesday 28 March 2018. British army personnel. Image: The announcement was made by Downing Street. By Alistair Bunkall, Defence Correspondent. General Sir Nicholas Carter hasÃâà...
9Honey
March 28, 2018
Kensington Palace has confirmed Armed Forces units with a special connection to the groom, who served in the army for 10 years, have been selected for involvement. The soldiers will provide ceremonial support at the wedding ceremony at St George's Chapel in Windsor Castle on May 19, and during theÃâà...
The Guardian
March 20, 2018
Some of the surviving detainees pictured in 2014, with Amnesty International's Colm O'Gorman, front right. Photograph: Brian Lawless/PA. The European court of human rights' decision to reject a request to rebrand as torture the maltreatment of 14 detainees by the British state at the start of NorthernÃâà...
NEWS.com.au
March 13, 2018
A SECRETIVE British army base, which identified the nerve gas used to poison a former double agent, has for years been fuelling conspiracy theories with its pioneering research into chemical and biological weapons. Located near Salisbury, the southwestern English city, Porton Down is Britain's mostÃâà...
Express.co.uk
March 13, 2018
But later this month, largely thanks to the remarkable efforts of a British Army officer, no fewer than 90 of them will finally be named and 180 of their relatives will be able to put flowers on the graves of their loved ones for the first time. Geoffrey Cardozo was a 32-year-old captain when he was posted to theÃâà...
The Guardian
March 12, 2018
A British army trainer accused of joining a “virulently racist” neo-Nazi group kept a terrorism manual written by the white nationalist Anders Breivik, a court heard. L/Cpl Mikko Vehvilainen is accused of membership of National Action, along with private Mark Barrett and a 23-year-old man who cannot beÃâà...
Independent.ie
March 12, 2018
Three men, among them a former soldier in the British army, were in custody last night being questioned about conspiring to murder a man as part of the ... The Irish Independent can reveal that the former soldier is Robert Brown, who spent around a decade in the British army and served in tours of Iraq andÃâà...
CNN
March 10, 2018
Personnel from the Royal Air Force, British Army and Royal Navy were among those sent to Salisbury on Friday, a Ministry of Defence spokesman told CNN. London's Metropolitan Police tweeted that the public should not be alarmed and the public health advice remained the same. It explained that theÃâà...
ERR News
March 9, 2018
Four British Army Air Corps (AAC) Lynx Wildcat AH1 battlefield reconnaissance helicopters are to deploy to Estonia in April on the type's first operational mission, IHS Jane's Defence Weekly reported, citing a British Army announcement from March 1. The helicopters, based out of Royal Naval Air StationÃâà...
East Anglian Daily Times
March 9, 2018
A British Army spokesman said: “All those who are found to have committed an offence, including a criminal offence, under the Armed Forces Act 2006 are dealt with through the disciplinary process. “Those who have otherwise fallen short of the Army's high standards are dealt with administratively and mayÃâà...
South China Morning Post
March 9, 2018
Picture: courtesy of Brian Finch. We were, of course, part of a much larger force, mainly British Army units. Our task was to patrol the border, which was a watershed along the high ground between Sarawak and Indonesian Borneo, which they call Kalimantan. The strategy was aggressive patrolling along theÃâà...
Fiji Times
March 8, 2018
THERE are approximately 1300 Fijians serving in the British Army, says British High Commissioner to Fiji Melanie Hopkins. Ms Hopkins said the program they had opened to Fiji was available to all in the Commonwealth countries when it came to the recruitment of personnels for the British Army. "Since theÃâà...
PinkNews
March 8, 2018
The British Army has released its ad campaign which lauds different sexualities, ethnicities and faiths after being criticised for being too “politically correct”. The Ãâã1.6 million “This is Belonging” campaign answers whether hopeful troops can be “gay”, “emotional” and “practice their faith” in the army. . GeneralÃâà...
IHS Jane's 360
March 8, 2018
The deployment of UK Army Air Corps Lynx Wildcat helicopters to Estonia next month will the type's first operational deployment.The deployment of UK Army Air Corps Lynx Wildcat helicopters to Estonia next month will the type's first operational deployment. Source: IHS Markit/Patrick AllenÃâà...
Express.co.uk
March 1, 2018
MEMBERS of the Armed Forces have been called in to help emergency services cope with relief efforts around the UK after the Met Office issued red warnings as the adverse weather conditions look set to continue. By Alessandra Scotto di Santolo. PUBLISHED: 21:57, Thu, Mar 1, 2018 | UPDATED: 21:59, Thu, Mar 1, 2018Ãâà...
BBC News
February 28, 2018
This is 20-year-old Aaron Wilson's first operational deployment with the British Army. "It's been easier than I would have ... Other than offering a military presence, a significant effort seems to be being made by the British Army in developing relationships with residents. They are keen to be part of theÃâà...
Telegraph.co.uk
February 28, 2018
Dogs who have risked their lives in the service of Britain's Armed Forces are being put down because they are “failing to maintain standards” including good behaviour, it has emerged. Figures released by the Ministry of Defence show that nearly 40 military working dogs were euthanised in the ten monthsÃâà...
Telegraph.co.uk
February 22, 2018
A decorated Army major who has faced seven separate inquiries over the death of an Iraqi teenager 15 years ago is now being investigated for an eighth time, the Telegraph has learned. Major Robert Campbell said he had been “broken” by the discovery that yet another official inquiry had been launchedÃâà...
War Is Boring
February 21, 2018
Limbering and unlimbering artillery was time consuming, so the British Army hastened development of a 25-pounder self-propelled howitzer called the Bishop. Weapons rushed into combat often make for poor weapons — and the Birmingham Railway Carriage and Wagon Company's self-propelled BishopÃâà...
Forces Network
February 20, 2018
Mr Spence said it was no coincidence that Palmer, who served in the British Army until November 2015, was in the vicinity at the time of the killing. He continued: "Sometimes as Alex, sometimes as Little Alex, the voice at times urged him to kill people. "He appears to have some ill-feeling or a grudgeÃâà...
BBC News
February 3, 2018
The British Army's new recruitment adverts have caused a bit of a stir by targeting minority groups with their more 'touchy feely' message. The intent was clearly to appeal to an audience that might have reservations about a career in the Army. But there's also another message: The British Army's changing.
The Guardian
December 31, 1999
Calls are growing for Walter Tull, the first black person to serve as an officer in the British army, to be posthumously awarded a military cross as the centenary of his death on the battlefield approaches. Tull, who was a professional footballer at the outbreak of the first world war, gained his commission as aÃâà...
Irish Times
December 31, 1999
Edward Burke's new book examines the story of British army soldiers who served in Northern Ireland during the Troubles. On July 30th, 1972, the British army commander in Derry, Brigadier Pat MacLellan, sent a memorandum to all of his units, barely six months after the fatal shooting of 14 unarmedÃâà...
