When people are asked to name Britains worst maritime disaster, most would say the Titanic or even the Lusitania but they would be wrong as the worst disaster is the one least heard about, the RMS Lancastria. The Lancastria’s victims outnumber the Titanic 2-1 or even 3-1! The reason we do not know the accurate […]
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A military disaster over 100 years ago, about 58,000 allied soldiers – including 29,000 British and Irish soldiers and 11,000 Australians and New Zealanders lost their lives on the Gallipoli peninsula. A further 87,000 Ottoman Turkish troops died fighting the allies and at least 300,000 more on both sides were seriously wounded. Conceived by Winston Churchill, the
The majority of the fighting during WW1 took place on the Western Front. As a result of this, the bombing from both sides totally obliterated the landscape to a point where nothing grew. That being said, a small striking hardy flower shone through, the poppy. This created such a contrast to the surroundings as they
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