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A Concept Vindicated: The Battle of the Falkland Islands, 1914 - Scott Lindgren

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In early 2023, Scott visited Ruddington to talk about the Battle of Coronel, and perhaps unwisely, offered to return to the branch and give his follow up talk on the Battle of the Falkland Islands 1914!Following Coronel, the Royal Navy dispatched three battlecruisers to hunt down the German East Asia Squadron. This lecture examines the engagemen...


'Jutland Can Be Seen from Walthamstow!?' with Chris Hunt

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In this talk Chris Hunt takes a look at the events of the great naval battle of the First World War when the battle fleets of Britain and Germany clashed in the North Sea in 1916, with a particular focus on the experience of the men of Walthamstow. This new town in south-west Essex (now north-east London) had no naval tradition, and yet it provi...