Harold Gillies had always been an imaginative and able doctor but until 1914 he was as famous for his golf and practical joking as for his surgical talents. When war broke out the 32 year old New Zealander joined the Royal Army Medical Corps and was sent to the 83rd Dublin General Hospital at Wimereux. […]
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Flora Sandes was the only British woman to officially fight on the front line in World War One. The youngest daughter of a country rector, Flora was born in North Yorkshire on 22nd January 1876 and brought up in rural Suffolk. Flora’s typical middle class upbringing did nothing to dampen her tomboy spirit. She rode, shot, drank and smoked!
One of Germany’s most feared and effective weapons during World War I was its fleet of submarines, known as U-boats, that roamed the Atlantic, sneaking up underwater on British merchant ships and destroying them with torpedoes. During the course of the war, they sank more than 5,700 vessels, killing more than 12,700 non-combatants in the process. The British
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