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PM Theresa May's speech at the inauguration of the British Normandy Memorial at Ver-sur-Mer, on the 75th anniversary of D-Day.
First published during the 2016 to 2019 May Conservative government
Thousands of schoolchildren will learn more about the British nuclear testing programme thanks to a £70,000 grant from the Office for Veterans’ Affairs (OVA). Another £34,000 grant will bring hundreds of veterans together at reunion events, and others from the...
First published during the 2022 to 2024 Sunak Conservative government
The UK Commission on Covid Commemoration completes its work.
Final resting place of Yorkshire Regiment soldier identified more than a century after his death.
First published during the 2019 to 2022 Johnson Conservative government
As part of the Yom HaShoah commemoration, the concert will remember the Kitchener Camp in Kent which saved the lives of 4,000 Jewish refugee men.
Communities Secretary Eric Pickles paid tribute to those affected by genocide past and present at the national Holocaust Memorial Day event.
First published during the 2010 to 2015 Conservative and Liberal Democrat coalition government
Eight Northumberland Fusiliers and one unknown soldier of the Great War buried.
Two unknown British soldiers buried over a century after their deaths
The graves of Lieutenant (Lt) Harold Rymer Smith and Second Lieutenant (2ndLt) Wilfred John Massey Lynch, who were killed on the Western Front in the spring of 1918, have finally been marked with headstones which now bear their name more...
On St George’s Day 23 April, British Ambassador, Defence Attaché and soldiers from Duke of Lancaster’s Regiment attended a service and plaque dedication at Estonian Soldiers Memorial Church in Tori.
The following ceremonies and events are taking place today (Sunday 11 September 2022) across the country to allow people to pay tribute to the life of Her Majesty The Queen:
First published during the 2022 Truss Conservative government
More than a century after his death, a soldier of The Royal Field Artillery, has been laid to rest on the Somme alongside his comrades.
UK government hosts a major multinational event to increase private finance to protect and restore nature
PRESSRELEASE – 4 SEPTEMBER 2013
The British Embassy in Tirana will hold a Remembrance Sunday Service at the British and Commonwealth Memorial site in Tirana Park.
The graves of two soldiers killed on the Somme have been identified and rededicated in northern France
Prime Minister’s words this morning at a service in St Margaret’s Church to commemorate the 5th anniversary of the terror attacks on Westminster Bridge and New Palace Yard.
Jim Dixon and Perdita Hunt have been reappointed by the Prime Minister as Members of the National Heritage Memorial Fund for 9 months from 01 October 2020 - 30 June 2021 and 22 July 2020 - 21 April 2021 respectively....
Transparency rules are having a positive impact on the price of funeral services – a CMA report has found.
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.
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