Builder's honour for war bravery
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A builder from Liverpool becomes the first part-time soldier since the Second World War to receive the Military Cross.
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Nelson Mandela paid tribute to the antiapartheid struggle yesterday as Britain unveiled a towering statue in his honor outside the Houses of Parliament, saying it symbolized the sacrifices made by all who fight oppression.
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A young army private who received Britain's highest military honour but who paid a physical and emotional price for his heroism in Iraq has been promoted to lance corporal.
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Services are due to be held across Scotland to pay tribute to those who lost their lives in the two world wars.
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Britain&#39;s Olympic heroes have been honoured in the New Year&#39;s Honours List, with four-time rowing gold medallist Matthew Pinsent knighted and middle-distance runner Kelly Holmes made a dame.
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Captain Dickie Annand, who died on Christmas Eve aged 90, won the Army's first Victoria Cross of the Second World War when serving with the 2nd Battalion, The Durham Light Infantry, in Belgium in May 1940.
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hailed as heroes by a British commander five days after an electrical fire on board killed one of their crewmates and left their vessel adrift on the stormy North Atlantic.
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The London-based security firm which employed four former Gurkhas killed in a rocket attack on their compound in Baghdad tonight paid tribute to them as âbrave and professional individualsâ.
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TO THE British, it was a war cemetery. To the villagers of Stahnsdorf in the former East Germany, its annual Remembrance Day service was their window to freedom.
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President Bush on Tuesday bestowed the nation&#39;s highest civilian honor, the Presidential Medal of Freedom, on three of the central architects and executors of the war
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Hundreds of British and Allied soldiers killed in the defence of Hong Kong during World War II have been honoured in a Remembrance Day ceremony.
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HUNDREDS of people came together on Sunday to lay wreaths and salute those who lost their lives during the two world wars and other conflicts.
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For US military athletes the Games are a chance to pay tribute to those still in harm's way.
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By Tom M Miller  Editor, Times-Dispatch:  With others, I was twice privileged to visit Normandy battle sites and the nearby American cemetery holding our special heroes.  Among rows of white crosses two bear gold insignias marking graves of Medal of Honorees.
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The Hundred Year War soldiered on through the drizzle yesterday, with its participants simultaneously honoring past heroes while waiting for the emergence of new ones.
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A sergeant who led a an attack on Iraqi forces despite being wounded and a Gurkha who saved the life of a US soldier in Afghanistan are among 90 British servicemen and women to be awarded military honours on Tuesday.
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HALIFAX - Navy Lieut. Chris Saunders was honoured as a joyful father and a fearless sailor yesterday by mourners on both sides of the ocean following last week&#39;s tragic fire on HMCS Chicoutimi.