Veterans

Great British Bake Off 2023 to undergo huge format change

Veterans can get half price meals at Morrisons for one day only

Morrisons launch half price cafe deal for one day only

Navigation Wealth’s CEO Matt Hammond presents a cheque for £25,000 to Paul Matson BEM, founder of Hull 4 Heroes.

Yorkshire financial firm helps veterans' charity secure £25,000 in support

D-Day veteran Joe Cattini has died aged 100

One of Britain’s last D-Day veterans Joe Cattini dies aged 100

A soldier in the army. PIC: Pixabay

Veterans are being let down by the compensation system - Stephanie Peacock

Jerry in 1968

Veteran who won £5,000 on lottery to give some of his winnings back to charity

Act of Remembrance held at the North Eastern Railway War Memorial in York. Pictured Ken Cooke, aged 96, of York, one of Yorkshire's few remaining Normandy war veterans stands in remembrance to his fallen colleagues. Writer: James Hardisty

D-Day veteran's tribute to fallen friends as bells toll to mark Armistice Day

Rows of poppies on crosses are laid out in the Field of Remembrance outside Westminster Abbey in central London.

Why we must remember Afghanistan conflict – Dan Jarvis

Along with three other charities across the UK which provide nearly 1000 supported spaces for veterans, Riverside has written to the Treasury seeking urgent financial support.
Photo: PA

Mental health support at Catterick Garrison in jeopardy

World War Two veteran Bill Taylor is part of this year's Royal British Legion poppy appeal.

Why every poppy counts more than ever – The Yorkshire Post says

Military veterans can now claim a special discount railcard - here’s how

NHS help for military heroes continues in Leeds during Covid-19 pandemic

This is what you need to know about VJ Day (Photo: IWM)

This is everything you need to know about VJ Day and when it takes place in 2020

Normandy veterans Jack Mortimer (left) from Leeds and Raymond Ashby from York at the Royal British Legion in Leeds.

Veterans relive Normandy anniversary

The PC joined Nottinghamshire Police as a PCSO and moved to the South Yorkshire force in 2016.

How army veteran turned South Yorkshire Police officer is helping others to make...

Events are taking place across the county to marked Armed Forces Day.

Our debt to veterans on Armed Forces Day – The Yorkshire Post says

Adam's medals for service

Yorkshire soldier's plea over 'nightmare' battle with PTSD

An archive photo of HMS Rodney.

Why we should pay attention to wartime memories – Yorkshire Post letters

D-Day veteran Reg Charles, aged 96, the last surviving member of the heroic glider assault on Pegasus Bridge salutes during a memorial ceremony at the Pegasus Bridge Museum on June 05, 2019 in Caen, D-Day Marie Scott was a 17-year-old D-Day switchboard operator at Southwick House, Operation Overlord HQ in Portsmouth. Veterans, families, visitors and military personnel are gathering in Normandy on June 6th to commemorate the 75th anniversary of the invasion, which heralded the Allied advance towards Germany and victory about 11 months later.

Learn from the past and make GCSE history compulsory for teenagers – Jayne Dowle

Today's cartoon by Graeme Bandeira on the Tory leadership - and triathlon.

Why Tory candidates should reveal ‘running mates’ as leadership race hots up – T...

President Donald Trump and the Queen at this week's Buckingham Palace state banquet.

Queen’s handling of Donald Trump and D-Day shows Britain can still rise to an oc...
I’M hardly a model of sartorial elegance, but I’d like to think that I do at least know how to choose clothes that fit me.

Veteran Frank Baugh, 95, who served as a signalman with the Royal Navy on a landing craft during D-Day, attends the Royal British Legion's Service of Remembrance, at the Commonwealth War Graves Commission Cemetery, in Bayeux, France, as part of commemorations for the 75th anniversary of the D-Day landings.

Veterans in unity call as D-Day honours ‘the greatest generation’ – The Yorkshir...

In Northern Ireland during the 1970s, British troops faced a complex and dangerous security operation on British soil against a backdrop of centuries of hate. (Photo by Getty Images)

No veteran wants to be associated with war crimes - Patrick Mercer

The Red Arrows display for Whitby Regatta weekend, in 2007

Yorkshire RAF base shortlisted as potential new home for Red Arrows

John Giddings a Kohima veteran walks forward to the Kohima Memorial to lay a wreath in the York Museum Gardens.

Veterans gather at Minster to remember fallen comrades

Review: Cinderella

Richard Norris.

Urgent appeal for mourners to give old soldier Richard Norris a proper send-off ...

Night In Milan, pictured being ridden to victory by James Reveley in the William Hill Grimthorpe Chase Handicap Steeple Chase at Doncaster (Picture: Nigel French/PA Wire).

Veterans need bigger race calendar

Poppy Appeal launch in Leeds with a ceremony at the Light. Pictures: Tony Johnson.

City honours veterans at Leeds Poppy Appeal launch

Yorkshire women's second team closed their 2015 season with a 2-2 tie with Yorkshire Veterans.

Yorkshire golf: Veterans prove match for promising second-team line-up

Sean Percival-Scott: Found help through The Beacon and set up his own business.

Surge in veterans with mental health problems

Gemma Arterton (centre) with original Dagenham women strikers (front row left to right) Gwen Davis, Eileen Pullen, Vera Sime and Sheila Douglass, and cast of the musical Made in Dagenham during a photocall with original Dagenham ladies outside the Houses of Parliament

Equal pay battle passes first hurdle
THE call for equal pay took a step forward as a Yorkshire MP won a parliamentary battle.

Veterans go to war over independence campaign

Veterans gear up for Harry’s Invictus Games

Business community is urged to back veterans

Veterans urge young people to light a candle a century on from war

US President Barak Obama meets the Prince of Wales during an International Ceremony with Heads of State at Sword Beach in Normandy

Our liberty ‘written in blood on Normandy beaches’, says Obama

Veterans urged to check before D-Day visits

Australia keeps ‘God’ on warrior’s monument

The sun shines on The Fallen, a massive sand art project on the beach of Arromanches, France, for Peace Day 2013

Artists remember the fallen as they create silhouettes on D-Day beach

Veterans gather to honour absent friends

Veterans get mental health service

Arctic Star for convoy heroes

Help for veterans in mental health battle

Honour for heroes of convoys torpedoed by red tape

Veterans win battle to halt new use for Boer memorial

Veterans see standard enter retirement

British pledge over Falklands as heroes of conflict remembered

Walk on: Ramblers celebrate 80th anniversary of Peak District mass trespass

Land Army veterans see sculpture tribute

N-test veterans lose new legal fight over damages

Veterans at re-dedication of restored war memorial

Veterans ‘made ill by atomic tests’ in court fight

Veterans break cover to promote diary of SAS

Bear that went to war remembered as town honours historic Polish regiment

Backstage video: Glastonbury mud and rain makes it a Leeds Festival to remember

Council makes pledge to care for ex-service men and women

Nuclear test victims given Supreme Court boost

Fly-past bid falls foul of air rules

Veterans to attend French Air Force Memorial event