Officer’s sketches support military charities

CAPTAIN Alex Biddulph of 26th Regiment, Royal Artillery has published a book of sketches he drew while on an operational tour in Afghanistan earlier this year. Drawing the Front Line is a collection of sight...

Touring together

TWO British Army officers are nearing the end of their first operational deployment together as husband and wife. Rhys and Rebecca Pogson-Hughes-Emanuel, better known as Captain Becky P-H-E and Captain Rhys ...

Families send their love to Afghanistan

SOLDIERS serving in Afghanistan will be laying their heads down on a pillow wrapped in love this Valentine’s Day night. The wives and children of soldiers from 63 Works Group, Royal Engineers, based in Chetw...

Roses and rifles

LANCASHIRE couple Jeff Tosh and Sarah Edgar will be swapping flowers and chocolates for rations and rifles this Valentine’s Day. The couple who are both members of 381 Supply Squadron, 159 Support Regiment, ...

In it for the long haul

At the start of her two-year posting to America last September, Julie McCarthy’s husband arrived home a week into his new job with the news that he might be deploying to the Middle East for nine months. At arou...

Me and my soldier

MY Daddy is a Soldier Adventures’ 2014 Little Troopers calendar is out now! Over the past few months, the charity has been running a competition across the globe for children of soldiers to send their photos...

Surviving deployment – a TA spouse’s view

So, you’re a TA or Reservist family and you hear the dreaded words, ‘I want to go on operations’. We all have different experiences when our loved ones go on deployment. Sara Sumner, partner of a TA soldier, ha...