"The schoolboy sailors who died at Gallipoli" Topic
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Huscarle | 23 Mar 2015 2:56 p.m. PST |
This BBC article brought a tear to my eye, as one of my relatives, an only son was a boy-cadet who went down in the Hampshire the following year. link |
WarWizard | 23 Mar 2015 11:30 p.m. PST |
Very touching. They were much too young to have been dealt such a fate. |
ColCampbell | 24 Mar 2015 8:03 a.m. PST |
While it is sad that the boys were killed, they were no younger than midshipmen and ship's boys who went to sea with the Royal Navy during the Seven Years War, American Revolution, and Napoleonic Wars. Jim |
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