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First World War Context

 Steve Horsfield  May 23, 2015  Forget Me Not, WW1  No Comments

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First World War Context

As background to Forget Me Not we carried out research into some of the issues that would have affected our ancestors during the First World War. Links to these are given below:

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63rd Royal Naval Division
Demobilisation and Discharge Procedure
First World War Advertisements
First World war military post office
First World War Postcards
Food Production in the First World War
Hoby In The News in the First World war
Ten Surprising Laws Passed During The First World War
The Army Remount Service
The Women’s Land Army
Trench Foot
U.K. Military Service Act
Voluntary Aid Detachment
Wicklow Lodge Auxiliary Military Hospital
World War One : Feeding The Many
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