'THE GREAT WAR', 'THE WAR TO END WAR', 'WORLD WAR 1'
'What passing-bells for these who die as cattle?
- Only the monstrous anger of the guns.'
from 'Anthem for Doomed Youth'
by Wilfred Owen
1914 - 1918
Extract from the October 1915 AGM Report of the 'Oldham Women's Suffrage Society'
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This extract follows the details of a talk at the Society on the, 'Red Cross work in Belgium and Russia'.
Mention is made of the bed at Royaumont, named the 'Oldham S.W.S.' and a bed in Serbia, the gift of the President (Marjory Lees).
Courtesy of Oldham Local Studies & Archives
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