and I hope to emulate not just British officers but American officers as well." "To join with the American infantry (in receiving the order of St. Maurice) has been a great honor," added Russell.

Like so many first-time visitors to the Lowcountry, Charles Campbell was enchanted. In a letter to his father back home in Britain, Campbell gushed about the natural beauty of the Holy City in spring.

In his poem “Anthem for Doomed Youth,” World War I poet and British infantry officer Wilfred Owen ponders the slaughter on the Western Front: What passing bells for these who die like cattle?

A British soldier received his country's highest military award for valor for heroic actions in Afghanistan that saved the life of a Marine infantry ... 1941 during World War II.

YANGON, Myanmar – Seventy years after World War II ended, withered and mostly impoverished veterans will gather at the graveside of a British officer who almost no one in England remembers.