But one recruitment tactic has proved especially controversial. In June 2018, The Guardian reported that the British Army had advertised recruitment material on social media to 16-year-olds around ...

London: The British Army has rejected 173 aspiring soldiers over the past four years due to poor dental health, according to ...

Since then, the Army has seen a 30 percent rise in applications, Maj. Gen. Tom Bewick, commander of British Army Recruiting and Initial Training Command, said at DSEI.

The British army is much smaller now, but the percentage of soldiers on active duty is more than in the Second World War. Their deployments include Northern Ireland, the Balkans and Iraq.

The first time Lord Kitchener’s mug was used for British Army recruitment, it was 1914 and the world was fighting the Great War. Kitchener, serving at the time as British war minister, stared ...

Serving soldiers in the British Army were granted permission to grow beards and mustaches after a century-old ban was lifted with immediate effect Friday, bringing the service in line with the air ...