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In recognition of their significant contribution to the UK’s nuclear deterrent testing programme, potentially thousands of veterans and civilian staff, and next of kin, across the UK and Commonwealth can now apply for a commemorative medal.
First published during the 2022 to 2024 Sunak Conservative government
Soldiers from 33 Engineer Regiment (Explosive Ordnance Disposal [EOD]) have undertaken a cycle ride in commemoration of a colleague who was killed in Afghanistan, and raised over £3,500 for the regiment's injured soldiers fund
First published during the 2010 to 2015 Conservative and Liberal Democrat coalition government
Soldiers from British Forces Brunei (BFB) have paid their respects to fallen Service personnel by laying wreaths at several sites across Borneo, including a sunken ship.
Employment Tribunal decision.
Her Royal Highness The Duchess of Cornwall has visited the RUC George Cross Memorial Garden at Brooklyn in Belfast
British Defence Attaché speaks at memorial service in honour of the crew who died during the operation to oversee the German withdrawal.
Speech by the Communities Secretary Rt Hon James Brokenshire MP at the Kindertransport conference.
First published during the 2016 to 2019 May Conservative government
Veterans and current Service personnel attended the service at the National Memorial Arboretum.
A programme of film, music and poetry will be used to commemorate the centenary of the Battle of the Somme on 1 July
First published during the 2015 to 2016 Cameron Conservative government
Statement by Charlotte Cohen, Youth Advisor to the UK Prime Minister’s Holocaust Commission, to the UN Holocaust Memorial Ceremony
The Government has set out the membership and terms of reference for the UK Commission on Covid Commemoration.
First published during the 2019 to 2022 Johnson Conservative government
The British Embassy Prague announces information about the traditional ceremony which will be held in the Olšany Commonwealth War Cemetery on the 8 November 2020.
In 13 years of operations in Afghanistan more than 150,000 UK military personnel have deployed as part of the NATO mission in Afghanistan.
Servicemen and women around the world have joined the nation in marking two minutes’ silence at 11.00 on Armistice Day.
Special screening of the 1916 film The Battle of the Somme featured accompaniment from the Memorial University Chamber Orchestra.
The British Embassy in Washington commemorates the citizens from over 90 countries who perished in the 9/11 attacks.
£250,000 in government funding has been awarded to Universities and National Life Stories, the UK’s leading oral history fieldwork charity from the British Library, to chronicle and study the experiences of British nuclear test veterans.
The public can now apply for tickets to attend Somme centenary commemorations in Thiepval next year.
The memorial of HMS Vindictive was relocated to Ostend in the presence of Belgian King Albert II and Ambassador Brenton.
The British Embassy in Tirana will hold a Remembrance Sunday Service at the British and Commonwealth Memorial site in Tirana Park.
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