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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

Jutland : Crew of 'Acasta' cheering the Commander-in-Chief

Jutland : Crew of 'Acasta' cheering the Commander-in-Chief

From: 'More Sea Fights of the Great War' by W.L. Wyllie, C. Owen & W.D. Kirkpatrick pub. 1919
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