TimesMachine is an exclusive benefit for home delivery and digital subscribers. About the Archive This is a digitized version of an article from The Times’s print archive, before the start of online ...

The story of Captain Albert Ball, Britain's first great fighter ace and Victoria Cross recipient, tracing his rise from Nottingham schoolboy to national hero, his 44 victories over the Western Front, ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Since Queen Victoria instituted the Victoria Cross in 1856, five American-born men have received Britain’s highest military award ...

The first Victoria Cross awarded to a civilian, an Irishman from Co Westmeath, has been bought at auction for a world record-breaking €1 million. The medal, Britain's greatest military honor, sold at ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Bruce Moncur carries a C9 machine gun near the hatch of a light armoured vehicle on patrol in Kandahar Province in August 2006.

Following extraordinary acts of bravery at the Battle of Pozières in WWI, Sgt. Martin O'Meara was awarded a Victoria Cross. Eighty years after his death, the cross will be the first to leave Australia ...