The crew was the first to receive the new medal, which was created last year for missions sailing under Arctic ice.

The Navy has presented its newest honor, Arctic Service Medal, to the crew of a fast-attack submarine for its involvement in ...

The crew of the USS Indiana, a Virginia-class, fast-attack submarine that spent three weeks in the seas near the North Pole ...

A Second World War hero has received his service medal – 70 years after risking his life as part of the Arctic convoys. George Feast, 93, who now lives in St Peter’s Close, Hove, served on the ...

“These men were on the Arctic Convoys and their service was absolutely vital.” John Emmott’s son collected the medal on his father’s behalf. Mr Emmott joined the Army in 1939 as a 16-year ...

Smoke billows out of a mobile phone shop in Sidon after hand-held radios used by Hezbollah detonated on Wednesday (September ...

AN ARCTIC convoy veteran from York looks set to receive a long-awaited medal within weeks. Bill Sunderland, 86, of Foxwood Lane, is one of about 200 veterans nationally who will finally receive ...

Harold with his medals at a Merchant Navy remembrance service The last surviving veterans ... government - and were presented with an Arctic Star medal for the 70th anniversary in Cardiff.

Now the 88-year-old, who lives in Wroxham Road has been finally recognised for his service 70 years later after being awarded the Arctic Star medal, which was awarded to members of the British ...

90-year-old Kenneth Dearn, who lives in Hellesdon, was awarded his medal by the Russian ... in a series in which all British service personnel involved in the Arctic Convoys, which saw four ...

90-year-old Kenneth Dearn, who lives in Hellesdon, was awarded his medal by the Russian Ambassador Alexander Yakovenko at the Russian Embassy in London last month. Mr Dearn's ceremony was one in a ...

But, he said, "nobody ever knew where Franklin's Arctic Medal was". Janette Park from Stromness Museum said: "I'd always assumed that his medal would be in Canada or Greenwich. So I contacted the ...