Craig Mitchell

LAST week Her Royal Highness The Princess Royal officially named the jetty which will house the Royal Navy’s giant new aircraft carriers in Portsmouth.

HMS Richmond has been offered to boost the EU mission to tackle people smuggling in the Mediterranean, the Defence Secretary has announced.

HMS Enterprise has contributed to a major rescue of migrants in the Mediterranean, working under an Italian-led EU mission.

Arrangements are going ahead for the bereaved families of British soldiers killed in the Korean conflict to visit the graves of their loved ones in the United Nations Memorial Cemetery in Korea.

THE Royal Fleet Auxiliary (RFA) Argus has been honoured by the defence secretary as she heads back to the UK after supporting the fight against Ebola.

The new Army Reserve recruitment campaign launched last week with a series of recruitment events up and down the country.

A CELEBRATION of Diwali, the festival of lights, provided the opportunity to launch the Armed Forces Hindu Network.

SEVENTY years ago last week thousands of Paratroopers of the 1st Airborne Division of the British Army dropped onto Ginkel Heath, north-west of Arnhem in Holland, with the intention of capturing bridges on the key routes through Holland and preventing the German Army from advancing.

One hundred years ago the first Royal Navy warship to fall victim to a U-boat was sunk in the Firth of Forth.More than 250 sailors and Royal Marines were killed when HMS Pathfinder was torpedoed within sight of land as she patrolled near May Island.

LAST month the Royal Navy’s newest aircraft carrier, HMS Queen Elizabeth, was named. Weighing in at 65,000 tonnes and with a flight deck measuring in at 4.5 acres, she is the largest warship ever built for the Royal Navy.