Tyneside

The Battle of Jutland, 31 May - 1 June 1916 was the only occasion in the Great War that the two opposing battlefleets would meet in action. A succession of interlinked engagements rather than a single continuous fight, Jutland has become one of the most debated and contentious fleet actions in naval history, with debates continuing to rage over...

Deryk talks about Worth, another brother of the Wilson family to Bob, who he spoke about last year - Bob was ship's engineer on the undercover spy ship Sayonara. Samuel Worthington Wilson – was known in the family as Worth. He was in the Sea Scouts in Sunderland when war broke out - the Boy Scout movement began in Sunderland in 1908. Worth joine...

The story of Rev Robert Keable’s time in France as a chaplain to the appallingly treated men of the South African Native Labour Corps. It also records the writing, publication, and reaction to his scandalous semi-autobiographical bestselling war novel ‘Simon Called Peter’. What happened in France to lead a rising star in the Church of England to...