Mike Swain listens to a lunchtime lecture given by UCL Teaching Fellow Dr Clare Makepeace entitled “Sex and the Somme” about the hundreds of thousands of First World War soldiers who used brothels.
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Sex and the Somme. Soldiers visited brothels to escape the “lunatic world of war.”
Mike Swain listens to a lunchtime lecture given by UCL Teaching Fellow Dr Clare Makepeace entitled "Sex and the Somme" about the hundreds of thousands of First World War soldiers who used brothels.
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Australian ‘Sacred Soil’ project seeks to engage young people
The Sacred Soil project in Australia is proposing to send students to the battlefields of the Western Front and to Gallipoli to mark the Centenary of the First World War.
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The Story of John Miller Coutts Weir, M.M.,M.C – a family hero
Centenary News contributor Ottilia Saxl tells the story of her great-uncle John Miller Coutts Weir, who was awarded both the Military Medal in 1916 and Military Cross in 1917 and served in all three services.
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The Story of John Miller Coutts Weir, M.M.,M.C – a family hero
Centenary News contributor Ottilia Saxl tells the story of her great-uncle John Miller Coutts Weir, who was awarded both the Military Medal in 1916 and Military Cross in 1917 and served in all three services.
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Battle of the Aisne Centenary to be marked with two days of commemorations in September 2014
Thousands of soldiers killed at the Battle of the Aisne, where trench warfare started in 1914, are to be remembered at a special Centenary event in France.
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Your Loving Son: The letters home of Cuthbert H T Lucas August 1914
Captain Cuthbert Lucas’s arrival in France was obviously an auspicious one. Very much the advance party for the BEF, he had been sent to provide the coordination for the successful disembarkation.
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Your Loving Son: The letters home of Cuthbert H T Lucas August 1914
Captain Cuthbert Lucas’s arrival in France was obviously an auspicious one. Very much the advance party for the BEF, he had been sent to provide the coordination for the successful disembarkation.
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Trail of Poppies Expedition
From April 2015 Phil Brotherton will spend roughly three months travelling across 12 countries to raise money for the Royal British Legion and the German Volksbund.
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New French museum remembers Australian & British war dead at Fromelles
Centenary News visits the Museum of the Battle of Fromelles, which tells the story of how the remains of 250 soldiers were recovered, almost a century after they fell in France.
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