The Centenary of the Battle of the Somme
One hundred years ago, the Battle of the Somme bloodied the fields of France. On the first day, 1st July, the British Army lost 60,000 men, of whom 20,000 were killed. Britain’s military hospitals wer…
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100 Years of Caring: The Royal Star & Garter Homes’ Centenary
On 14 January 1916, the Charity’s Richmond Home opened its doors to care for the injured troops returning from the battlefields of the First World War. The average age of those men was 22. Today we…
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