Victoria Cross
RAF Dog Awarded Highest Honor for Service in Afghanistan
The Victoria Cross is Great Britain’s highest military decoration, but no animal has ever received the award. That led the People’s Dispensary for Sick Animals (PDSA), a British veterinary charity,...
The History of the Victoria Cross: Britain’s Highest Military Decoration
Here’s What You Need to Know: This distinguished award has an interesting history. It is hard to think of the history of Great Britain without considering class and social status, and...
Never Underestimate a Single British Soldier (With a Giant Grenade Launcher)
On May 6, 1944 during the Battle of Monte Cassino in Italy, Francis Arthur Jefferson, a soldier with the British Army’s Lancashire Fusiliers, engaged a German tank with a Projectile Infantry...