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Ian Allan ABC of British Warships by H M Le Fleming, cover by A N Wolstenholme, 1954
"Be British" dedicated to the gallant ill-fated crew of the Titanic (song: Bamforth & Co., 16 slides, 1912)
Armoured cruiser HMS Kent, Monmouth-class, 9,800t built 1903(c), 14-6in, 23kts, 678 crew Falkland Islands 1914. Sold 1920
- Royal Navy recruiting poster in World War 1 -
Oct 1914 - Sep 1915, Apr 1915 - Sep 1917, South Atlantic Pacific, Sierra Leone (convoys);
Oct 1917 - Dec 1918, Sierra Leone (convoys), Cape of Good Hope (convoys);
Jan 1919 - Aug 1919, Cape of Good Hope (convoys), China
The Deep Blue Sea may be the most British film I have ever seen, and I’ve seen Captain British’s English Anti-Yankee Jamboree (as yet unreleased in any format). What makes the film stand apart from the likes of Downton Abbey or Sense & Sensibility is its pervasive use of context to tell its story, which isn’t so much about the characters – although they are exceptional – as it is the specific, post-World War II English culture in which they inhabit....
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” Illumination of the Fleet “ …… Malta, Circa 1902, Library of Congress
Source: thisisthewhat.com
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Source: flickr.com
British soldiers posing with a wrecked Ottoman AEG C.IV fighter plane. Palestine. WW1. (by benicektoo)