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    100 Years ago today

    Saw the bombardment of Hartlepools, Whitby, & Scarborough by the German Imperial Navy - marking the only land engagement made by the British Army on UK soil in World War One.

    (The battery in the town having returned fire on the German cruisers)
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    100 Years ago today

    Which town?

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      #3
      100 Years ago today

      Gangster Octopus wrote: Which town?
      Both Hartlepool and West.

      It lead Winston Churchill to brand the Germans as "killers of women and children".

      The same self-same Winston Churchill of Tonypandy and the "Marsh Arabs" fame.

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