Today (11 November) marks Remembrance Day, also known as Armistice Day, which means a chance to stop and think about those who fell during the First World War, as well as other conflicts since then.

The mud of the Somme Valley was still on Ewart Tempest’s boots when he marched into Vignacourt, a French village some fifteen miles behind the British front line. It was April 5, 1916. Tempest, a fair ...

On Nov. 11, 1918, fighting in World War I ended as the Allies and Germany signed an armistice aboard a railroad car in the Forest of Compiègne (kohm-PYEHN’-yeh) in northern France. Also on this date: ...