Win your ultimate day with dad

LITTLE Troopers and online marketplace notonthehighstreet.com have teamed up for Father’s Day to launch a competition exclusively for families with a father serving in the British Armed Forces to win the ultima...

Families share Invictus spirit

FORMER Army Lance Corporal Matthew Elliot is ready to compete at the Invictus Games and, thanks to the Royal British Legion, his wife and children will be supporting him all the way. RBL is co-ordinating tra...

How do you want to live as an Army family?

RESULTS of AFF’s recent quick poll suggest that the majority of Army families believe patch life is important. More than three quarters of in excess of 1,000 respondents agreed that living on a patch helped ...

Germany: life as we know it

It’s been confirmed that unit moves from British Forces Germany (BFG) will be put back to 2019. With this in mind, AFF’s Germany team has been speaking to families for their views on life during the drawdown… ...

Employment boost for Service veterans

INJURED ex-Forces personnel have been given the chance to reuse the skills they learned in the Services and gain increased independence by a charity's manufacturing division. Royal British Legion Industries ...

#WinWednesday – Thrilling Gurkha book

IN 200 years of service to the British crown, never before has a serving Gurkha solider written an account of his own life. Gurkha: Better to Die than Live a Coward by Colour-Sargeant Kailash Limbu recalls ...

Gurkha veterans’ firm foundations

ONE year on from the earthquake that left swathes of Nepal in ruins, elderly Gurkha veterans are rebuilding their lives with support from a younger generation of soldiers in the Himalayan foothills. Nearly 1...

Review: Beautiful boating break

ARMY&You teamed up with Anglo Welsh to offer a military family a few days of peace and tranquillity on the waterways of the UK. Spouse Kirsten King, her husband Andrew and their two children Finley (four) a...

Marvellous May for veteran Lamin

INJURED ex-guardsman Lamin Manneh has a hectic month ahead of him after making the Invictus Games squad and being selected as an ambassador for the 2016 Mobility Roadshow. Gambian-born Lamin, who lost both l...

Postbag: In praise of Army welfare

IN THE 20 years I’ve been with my soldier, we’ve been lucky to have never really needed Army welfare – until this year when my husband fell ill following a working trip overseas. He soldiered on for a long tim...