Armed Forces

Flying Officer Chris Yarde-Dent runs 494 (Stansted Airport) Squadron Air Training Corps when he's not busy working for the budget airline.

Intelligence Corps veteran Patrick Field worked at the Allied code-breaking centre, where among his crucial tasks was deciphering Japanese messages.

Bishop's Stortford branch of Royal British Legion commemorated 40th anniversary of end of conflict between UK and Argentina that cost over 900 lives.

Second World War veteran Cyril Banks collect for Royal British Legion Poppy Appeal and marched in town's Remembrance parade well into his 90s.

A new exhibition delves into Audley End's role as a centre for training elite Polish paratroopers during the Second World War.

494 (Stansted Airport) Squadron Air Training Corps marks its 30th anniversary this year but faces eviction as part of redevelopment plans.

Poppy Appeal fundraiser in Jackson Square follows church service at St Michael's attended by dignitaries.

The centenary was marked on Sunday with a special service at St Michael's Church and Legion members will be in Jackson Square this Saturday.

Past and present members of the armed forces in Bishop's Stortford are invited to attend a Legion centenary event at St Michael's Church.

Nick Crooks, from Antiques and Chic, found boxes of the lead soldiers worth £80,000 to £100,000 all over the house.

The Royal Anglian Regiment and Association is asking members past and present to meet on Saturday February 26 for Big Breakfast 22.

Bomb squad and police called to Broken Green, Standon, following discovery of two devices in woodland.

German, Italian and Austrian PoWs were marched at gunpoint across the village for a game against Hatfield Heath FC on Boxing Day 1946.

Legion standard bearer Arthur King could be in hospital for up to another 14 days, so we invite you to send him a card or small gift.

Off-duty London paramedic Jack Lynch was watching Stortford's Remembrance Sunday parade when standard bearer Arthur King suffered a cardiac arrest.

Daughter of Legion standard bearer, 74, who suffered cardiac arrest in Stortford's Remembrance parade says: "The gratitude we have knows no bounds."

Tim Bray played the Last Post after a Remembrance Day parade had made its way from Bell Street to Great St Mary’s churchyard.

Hundreds of people packed the Memorial Gardens in Stansted to pay tribute to those who fought and died in conflicts.

Indie photographer Vikki Lince's photos of the Remembrance Sunday parade and service in Bishop's Stortford.

Firefighters' defibrillator used on veteran Arthur King before paramedics take him to hospital after he suffers cardiac arrest on march.