Food Prices, Taxes and Rationing
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Kingston upon Hull War Memorial 1914 - 1918
The story of Hull in World War 1
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…fresh and daily. Food became increasingly scarce due to enemy attacks on shipping and a poor harvest in 1916. These shortages provoked frustration, food queues and hoarding. Parliament announced in…
…foreign bases. 214 minesweepers had been lost during the four years and three months of the 1914-1918 war. Maritime links http://www.mylearning.org/minesweeping-during-the-first-world-war/p-4720/ ur_collections/source_guides/ships_and_shipping.aspx http://www.hullcc.gov.uk/museumcollections/collections/theme.php?irn=158 http://www.mylearning.org/local-heroes-hulls-trawlermen/p-2631/ http://www.hullhistorycentre.org.uk/discover/hull_history_centre/ http://hulltrawler.net/ http://www.naval-history.net/WW1LossesBrFV1914-16.htm http://www.scarboroughsmaritimeheritage.org.uk/auboatsarthurgodfrey.php http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/magazine-30128199 …
…Victorin Trébuchon, the last French Soldier, killed at 10.45am, aged 40 and Henry Nicholas John Gunther, an American soldier, aged 23, killed at 10:59 a.m., about one minute before the…
…and solidly built thanks to his profession in metalwork, he joined Aberavon RFC at the age of 19 in 1912 and then Neath RFC. He quickly moved on to other…
…John Ambulance Association Voluntary Aid Committee supplying nurses and staff.The hospital started accepting casualties almost immediately and between August 1914 and January 1917, almost 2,500 patients, mainly soldiers and military…
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…the Northumbrian Division and then moved to South Holderness and then on to Darlington and then Newcastle. 07.04.1915 Mobilised for war and landed at Boulogne where the formation became the…
…attack and following it up with ferocious artillery and machine gun fire. At 10.30 that morning Bede’s battalion was ordered to leave its recently dug trench and advance and again…
…served with the army for four years between 1907 and 1911 and so was mobilised at the outbreak of war. Fergus duly obliged, enlisting on 8th September 1914 at Hull…