100 Years Ago Today
Below in an excerpt taken from Mersea Island Tales
100 YEARS AGO TODAY
WAR DIARY MAIN EVENTS MAY 1918
Follow our diary through the war years as part of our commemoration of the First World War and the events leading up to it.
Entries kindly maintained by local Historian Godfrey Thomas, author of Every one a Hero, the stories behind the names on War memorials in three local schools.
1st Germany and France agree arrangements for the exchange of prisoners
2nd Heavy fighting in Palestine further weakens Turkish position there
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