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1 October 1917 : Private Ernest Mackness
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Ernest lost his life on 1 October 1917 not in combat, but in front of a firing squad. Mackness, a regular soldier aged 25, was under a suspended death sentence when he went absent on 22 August 1917 as his battalion moved into trenches at Nieuport. No doubt it was a combination of his existing suspended sentence and the fact that his battalion w...
'Régina Diana: Seductress, Singer, Spy' by Dr Viv Newman
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Caption: Régina Diana About this talk: Régina Diana was the nom-de-guerre of Marie Antoinette Avvico, the rebellious daughter of working-class French-Italian parents from a run-down part of Geneva. Shortly after the outbreak of the Great War, she arrived in the bustling cosmopolitan port of Marseille to launch her triple career as a high profile...
The Forgotten Germans of the First World War
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Barry Kitchener's talk, ' The Forgotten Germans,' throws a spotlight on a little known and rarely mentioned aspect of the Great War. The British Government wanted to utilise the symbolic power that The Tower of London had become by executing eleven German spies convicted of espionage. A thought provoking story, not to be missed.