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Escape from the Desert : October 1915

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This article could almost be taken from a 'Boy's Own' story of Great War adventures. It features a daring raid by one of the world’s richest men to rescue a group of sailors whose ship had been torpedoed and who had been handed over to a group of North African tribesmen, by whom they were held in deplorable conditions for over four months. At th...


Ep. 15 – 'The Island of Ireland and the Great War in Flanders' with Piet Chielens from In Flanders Fields Museum

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Piet Chielens, the Coordinator of the In Flanders Fields Museum in Ypres, gives a guest lecture at the Public Record Office of Northern Ireland in Belfast on ‘The Island of Ireland and the Great War in Flanders’. Your browser does not support the audio element....


Historic WW1 German steam engine goes on display

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The Vale of Rheidol Museum near Aberystwyth will - over the summer holidays - be putting an unusual German light steam engine from the First World War on public display.  The engine is a ‘Brigadelok' built by Maffei in Germany in 1916. Above: Maffei ‘Brigadelok’ No.4766 is displayed in the new Museum, Display & Events building in Aberystwyt...