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On 23 July 2024, a little over a month after taking command of the British Army, General Sir Roly Walker stood before the Royal United Servi...
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At eleven o'clock on the morning of 11 November 1918, the guns fell silent on the Western Front. The Armistice, signed at Compiègne in t...
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