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ISRAEL AT WAR - DAY 647

British army

Britain's Prime Minister Keir Starmer speaks during a media interview while attending the 79th United Nations General Assembly at United Nations in New York, on September 25, 2024. (Leon Neal/Pool/AFP)
September 25, 2024, 6:52 pm
UK sends troops to Cyprus anticipating mass evacuation of its nationals from Lebanon
700 soldiers to join two navy ships already on hand along with aircraft; PM Starmer says very important for British subjects in war-torn country to ‘leave immediately’
By Reuters and ToI Staff
Ceremonial burning of last hut at Bergen-Belsen, Germany, 1945 (public domain)
April 17, 2020, 6:34 am
75 years ago this week, ‘typhus fever’ met its match at Bergen-Belsen
In ‘All the Horrors of War,’ a survivor’s daughter describes how H. L. Glyn Hughes, first Allied Medical Officer to enter Nazi ‘horror camp,’ strived to save lives after liberation
By Matt Lebovic
Tom Derek Bowden at Arnhem, Netherlands. (via UK Jewish News)
July 2, 2019, 10:41 pm
British soldier who founded IDF parachute school dies at 97
WWII veteran and ‘Machal’ volunteer Tom Derek Bowden was wounded in the same battle in which Moshe Dayan lost his eye
By ToI Staff
Tom Derek Bowden at Arnhem, Netherlands. (via UK Jewish News)
From the WebJune 12, 2019, 9:53 am
Non-Jewish UK soldier who fought for Israel in 1948 dies at 97
Cavalry officer Tom Derek Bowden was one of 5,000 foreigners who volunteered to help establish the Jewish state as part of a group known as ‘Machal,’ UK Jewish News reports
A visitor inspects the interior of a ruined cottage in the abandoned village of Tyneham, in Dorset, England, July 8, 2018. (Jerry Harmer/AP)
August 9, 2018, 9:58 pm
Ghost town: Visiting a tiny English village where history stopped dead in WWII
In 1943, the British military needed somewhere to practice tank maneuvers ahead of invading Nazi-held Europe, and Tyneham was in the right spot on the map
By JERRY HARMER
Charanpreet Singh Lall, second right, one of the Coldstream Guards, marches during the Trooping the Colour ceremony at Horse Guards Parade as Queen Elizabeth II celebrates her official birthday, in London, June 9, 2018. (Victoria Jones/PA via AP)
June 10, 2018, 1:20 pm
UK Sikh soldier first to wear turban to queen’s birthday
Charanpreet Singh Lall says he’s proud of the ‘new change in history,’ hopes others follow suit; Prince Harry and Meghan, Duchess of Sussex, also attend Trooping the Colour
By AP and ToI Staff
In this Monday, May 21, 2018, photo, Sue Wilkins, director of education at The International Museum of World War II, in Natick, Mass., stands near a 1933 propaganda poster, right, that praised the Nazi organization German Labor Front, which was created after the Nazis eliminated trade unions. (AP Photo/Steven Senne)
May 26, 2018, 6:24 pm
From snipers to moms: World War II exhibit focuses on women
Museum explores unconventional roles adopted by women, including paratrooping Soviet nurses and French resistance fighters who used strollers to smuggle weapons behind Nazi lines
By SARAH BETANCOURT
Edith Shaked Perlman
November 8, 2017, 11:28 am
Edith Shaked Perlman
Operation Torch saved Jews 75 years ago
How the US and UK stepped up to spare 400,000 Vichy Jews from deadly mass deportations
British Army soldiers are led by a police officer into Buckingham Palace in central London on May 24, 2017. (AFP PHOTO / Daniel LEAL-OLIVAS)
September 12, 2017, 4:18 am
Two British soldiers charged with neo-Nazi links
Indictments presented for being members of National Action, a banned white supremacist group; third man accused of possessing documents useful for terrorists
By AFP
In this Thursday Dec. 22, 2005 file photo, the then British prime minister Tony Blair meets soldiers at Shaibah logistics base, Basra, Iraq. (AP Photo/Kirsty Wigglesworth, File)
July 31, 2017, 6:18 pm
UK court blocks bid to prosecute Blair over 2003 Iraq war
High Court says former British PM cannot be accused of ‘crime of aggression’ under domestic law
By AP
A crew member stands on the deck of the Russian Navy's Buyan-class missile corvette Serpukhov during the International Maritime Defense Show in Saint Petersburg on June 28, 2017. (AFP PHOTO / Olga MALTSEVA)
June 29, 2017, 2:37 pm
Russia calls UK carrier ‘convenient target’ in naval war of words
Moscow angrily lashes out after UK defense secretary dismissively terms Russia’s only aircraft carrier ‘dilapidated’
By AFP
A police officer stands on duty outside a residential property on Aston Avenue in Fallowfield, Manchester, May 24, 2017. (AFP/Oli SCARFF)
May 24, 2017, 2:50 pm
3 more arrested in Manchester, terrorist’s Libya ties probed
Army deployed to guard Buckingham Palace, 10 Downing street and other sites until security forces certain no active plot in place, says UK home secretary
By Jill Lawless and Gregory Katz
This file photo taken on March 21, 2017 shows Britain's Prince Harry after a meeting with representatives of the Yes You Can personal development project at Hamilton Community College in Leicester, England, on March 21, 2017. (Joe Giddens/Pool/AFP)
April 18, 2017, 2:39 am
Prince Harry suffered ‘total chaos’ over Diana’s death
British royal, who served two tours in Afghanistan during his 10 years in the military, speaks out on mental health
By AFP
Maxim Reider
March 23, 2017, 10:39 pm
Maxim Reider
Night in Tel Aviv
Musings on homeland, terrorism, London casualties, the complications of occupation, and naive Israeli hot-heads
A bottle of Gordon’s Dry Gin found at a World War I British camp near Ramle in March 2017 (Assaf Peretz, courtesy of Israel Antiquities Authority)
March 22, 2017, 1:13 pm
Archaeologists uncork 100-year-old liquor stash left by British troops
Aside from bottles of gin and whiskey knocked back by World War I soldiers, excavation near Ramle also turns up silver tip of swagger stick, medallion with face of Egypt’s King Fuad
By Ilan Ben Zion
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