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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

HMS 'Chester' in action with three German Light Cruisers.

HMS 'Chester' in action with three German Light Cruisers.

From: 'More Sea Fights of the Great War' by W.L. Wyllie, C. Owen & W.D. Kirkpatrick pub. 1919
Read the entire book, or download, freely at the Internet Archive, HERE.

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