11/6/2023 0 Comments High school fleet world of warship![]() After the battle of Jutland it is not true to say, as many do, that the High Seas Fleet never came out again. To quote an American journalist in May 1916, ‘The German fleet assaulted its gaoler and then fled back into its cell’. Long live the socialist republic.’ Bundesarchiv, Bild 183–J0908–0600–002 via –J0908–0600–002,_Novemberrevolution,_Matrosenaufstand.jpg ![]() ![]() Kiel Mutiny: Sailors on the deck of the SMS Prinzregent Luitpold display a sign saying: ‘Soldier’s council, Warship Prinzregent Luitpold. The surrender and scuttling of the Kaiser’s High Seas Fleet at Scapa Flow in the Orkney Islands is a perfect example of the folly of war, of man’s inhumanity to man, but also of the ingenuity of the human mind, featuring, as it does, two men who are perhaps archetypal examples of great British eccentricity and thus to be celebrated. Lanoe Hawker, VC: Pilot, Innovator and Inventor.The Cotton-Mill Worker, the Stockbroker and the Flammenwerfer: The 8th Battalion Rifle Brigade at Hooge.Every man for himself: The Loss of HMS Formidable 1 January 1915.Forever Friends: Laurie Denison and Clifford Thompson.FILM REVIEW : All Quiet on the Western Front.Tolkien’s “bitter winnowing” and the War Memorial at St.Addison Barnes Perrott Hadden MC - South Irish Horse in the First World War.Sussex Women at War: Iva Mary Harland and Fanny Amelia Kennaird.A bloody war or a sickly season: The East Yorkshire Regiment’s Regular Officers of August 1914 and the Great War.Hobkirk DSO as GOC 14 Australian Brigade, July 1916 Through a Glass Darkly: The Appointment of T/Lieutenant-Colonel C.J.'The Grave by the Roadside' : Remembering 2/Lt.A Cockney Soldier and the Great War: Corporal William Charles Blumsom MM.
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