At a vigil in France, the Duke of Cambridge paid tribute to the fallen soldiers, saying “we lost the flower of a generation”. Commemorations are being held in the UK and France to mark the ...

Around 2,000 Ukrainian soldiers are training in France's eastern Marne region, where German and French armies battled each ...

Training is part of EU-funded programme Brigade of 2,000 to be deployed soon to front line France providing equipment ... hammered each other during World War 1. The initiative is part of a ...

The Anne of Kyiv brigade - named after a princess who married French King Henri I in 1051 in nearby Reims cathedral - has ...

The scene could be 3,000 km (1,860 miles) away in Ukraine's Donbas region, but instead some 2,000 Ukrainian conscripts and veterans are training in the muddy fields of France's eastern Marne region, ...

With it is his handwritten letter which speaks for itself. He writes: "This crucifix came from a house in Rosieres, Somme, France in the British retirement of March 1918....We were fighting on the ...

CHAMPAGNE, France (Reuters) - Soldiers scramble through ... where French and German armies once hammered each other during World War 1. The initiative is part of a European Union-funded programme ...

Not since the 1970s has there been such an important discovery from the Great War in France. In woods on a ridge not far from the city of Reims, the bodies of more than 270 German soldiers have ...

The names of 291 French and Swiss soldiers who died for France during World War I were commemorated Monday on two steles added to the Franco-Swiss war memorial in Geneva. The additional soldiers ...