Britain's last surviving World War Two Victoria Cross recipient, John Cruickshank, has died aged 105. The flight lieutenant, from Aberdeen, earned the honour for an attack on a German U-Boat while ...

Flight Lt. John Cruickshank was at the controls of a Royal Air Force plane on submarine patrol in July 1944 when he spotted a German U-boat steaming placidly on the surface of the Norwegian Sea.

John Swinney has paid tribute to his Royal Marine uncle on the 80th anniversary of his death in the Second World War. Corporal Thomas Peck Hunter, of 43 Commando Royal Marines, was awarded a ...