The case was found by family members looking for a photo A silver cigarette case believed to have saved a soldier's life by blocking a bullet during World War One is to be auctioned. The case had ...

A World War One helmet with a bullet hole in it has been stolen from a property in Caithness. The 100-year-old military head gear was taken along with a model sailing ship in a glass case.

One of Maxim's early prototypes could fire 666 rounds in a minute – around 11 bullets every second. In the battlefield conditions of WW1 this meant an average of 500 rounds a minute with a range ...

It's such a simple object and with its chipped edges it sums up perfectly the lives that the men on the frontline lived during WW1, dealing ... discover there is a bullet wedged at the bottom.