PINNED down by a hail of bullets and deadly accurate mortar shelling, the SAS fighters knew if they stayed put they were dead. But if they failed to silence the network of concrete machine-gun ...

Coldstream Guards sergeant major Kirtland Gill ... joined the army in 2001 after moving to the UK from Jamaica. The soldier said he was friends with Graham - also from Jamaica - who would visit ...

Sergeant Major Andrew "Vern" Stokes is in charge ... "Success looks like a national day for the United Kingdom and the Commonwealth, reflecting on the King as head of nation," he said.

Regimental Sergeant Major Lauderdale (Sir Richard Attenborough) is a by-the-book, strict disciplinarian, who seems like an anachronism in a sleepy peacetime African outpost of the modern British ...