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Release of Naval and Mercantile Marine Pension Records by Ancestry

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Members of The Western Front Association will be delighted to learn that the first of a series of releases of the WFA's Pension Record Cards and Ledgers archive have been made available through Ancestry. The first two sets of records to be released account for about 0.1% of the records the WFA saved from destruction with a much larger release of …


CANCELLED 'Human Shields or Innocent Victims: The Sinking of the RMS Lusitania, May 7th 1915'. By James Scannell

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  This talk will cover the financing and construction of this liner, progressing to her use  in the First World War as a high speed  courier vessel bringing warlike stores  to the UK from the USA, ending with her last voyage  including some of these  carried on her who were engaged in war work and whether or not passengers on that fateful last vo…