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'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

31st MAY - 1st JUNE 1916
THE NAVAL SEA BATTLE OF JUTLAND

FROM THE GALLERY

Cordite flame shooting out of pierced roof of 'Q' Turret, 'Lion'

Cordite flame shooting out of pierced roof of 'Q' Turret, 'Lion'
(flames higher than mast)

Photo taken from HMS 'Lydiard' about 4:8 pm.

From: 'The Fighting at Jutland' (abridged edition) edited by H.W. Fawcett, Royal Navy & G.W.W. Hooper, Royal Navy.
Published 1921 (Book available to read or download freely from the Internet Archive HERE)

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31st MAY - 1st JUNE 1916 THE NAVAL SEA BATTLE OF JUTLAND

31st MAY - 1st JUNE 1916
THE NAVAL SEA BATTLE OF JUTLAND