Featured Photo: Photo from defenceimagery.mod.uk. License: OGL v1.0. The Air Force of the United Kingdom is officially known as the Royal Air Force. It has existed for over a century with it first being founded in April 1918 as the world’s first independent air force, around 6 months before the end of World War 1, […]
Barbados became an independent nation from the British all the way back in 1966 although it remained a part of the Commonwealth Realm, meaning that the British Monarch remained the Head of State of the island nation (represented by an appointed Governor-General), which although largely ceremonial, still served an important constitutional role in the country […]
I thought I would have a crack at a new series on here. This series will focus on looking into the armed forces of each country a part of the Commonwealth of Nations, to learn about equipment of personnel, vehicles, weapons, and more. Naturally we shall start with the United Kingdom. This for the United […]
Featured Photo Credit: Photo by Simon Berry from Wikimedia Commons. CC BY-SA 2.0. Source. The Commonwealth of Nations is an inter-governmental organisation currently made up of 54-member states including the United Kingdom, many of the members were formerly colonies or dominions of the British Empire or were ruled or administered in some way by the British, but […]