“I died in hell – (They called it Passchendaele).”

Around 50,000 people gathered in Central Park this weekend for the Mayor’s Newham Show.

The 1916 Battle of the Somme typifies the Western Front for many among the public – fierce trench fighting, dubious tactics from the British Army, casualties numbering in the thousands.

A war hero who was awarded the Victoria Cross for his service in the First World War has been honoured with a commemorative stone.

A soldier who received the Victoria Cross is to be honoured with a commemorative stone in East Ham next month.

Dame Vera Lynn, who was born in East Ham and lived in Barking, has turned 100 today.

An often untold period in history is being celebrated in an exhibition claimed to be the first ever staged in a British mosque.

An expert on the Silvertown explosion has said the victims should be remembered in the same way as soldiers from the First World War.

It was a disaster many people living in Silvertown could see coming.

Shots from a field gun, prayers and a brass band accompanied marchers and mourners as the borough paid tribute this morning to those who gave their lives for Britain.

Silence fell at one of the borough’s war memorials this morning as hundreds turned out to pay their respects to those who have died in conflict.

Soldiers, schoolchildren, councillors and residents will be among crowds paying tribute to those who have died fighting for Britain.

A soldier whose grave was wrongly marked for more than a century has been buried with full military honours.

It’s seen bloody religious warfare, the revolutionary effects of industrialisation, the birth of socialism and it played a key role in the creation of the biggest empire in history.

Tucked away in a Victorian church, 200 metres from the runway of a busy international airport, first-time visitors to the Brick Lane Music Hall would be forgiven for thinking they’ve come to the wrong place.

While the British Empire had mastery of the seas, control of world trade and one of the wealthiest societies in human history, growing up still wasn’t easy.

A century ago this month – while the nation reeled from the indecisive Battle of Jutland, the death of Lord Kitchener and the Somme offensive – a solemn ceremony marked the erection of a very special war memorial.

For 72 years, the Newham Cornwell VC Sea Cadets has offered young people the chance to hit the waters and learn invaluable life skills.

Patriotic parades in the streets, suspected foreigners attacked or locked up, hundred-yard queues for basic foods – this was the quite inconceivable Newham of the First World War.

Primary school pupils have created a giant snakes and ladders board game for an exhibition about a black footballing pioneer.

A representative of the Queen was one of hundreds of people to pay tribute to a valiant boy who died for his country 100 years ago.

Imagine living in a city where several hundred tonnes of high explosives fell from the sky and smashed into the streets and houses and factories every other day.

A century ago, the town of Kut, in modern-day Iraq, was under siege from the Ottoman army.

One man’s determination to tell the story of a nurse who died nearly a century ago has brought together dozens of people – and changed one family forever.