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1.Historical characters
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Henry H Asquith
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Henry H Asquith
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Margot Asquith
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Edward Montagu
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Venetia Stanley
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Violet Asquith
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David Lloyd George
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David Lloyd George
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David Lloyd George
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Winston Churchill
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Winston Churchill
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Winston Churchill
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Admiral Jacky Fisher
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Admiral Jacky Fisher
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Admiral Jacky Fisher
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Lord Kitchener
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Lord Kitchener
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Admiral Christopher Cradock
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Admiral Christopher Cradock
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Admiral Maximillian von Spee
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Admiral John de Robeck
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Admiral Carden
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Admiral Sturdee
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Admiral Sturdee
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Admiral Beresford
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Captain Turner (Lusitania)
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Admiral de Robeck
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King Edward VII
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Enver Pasha, C-in-C Turkish Army
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General Gouraud at Gallipoli with General Bailloud
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General Hamilton
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General Monro
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King George V
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Lord Grey
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General Ian Hamilton & General Goraud at Gallipoli
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Lord Kitchener
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Winston Churchill
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Rupert Brooke
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Britain's War Cabinet
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2.Ships
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HMS Argyll
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Salvaging HMS Argyll while stranded on the Bell Rock
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Argyll grounded on the Bell Rock
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Argyll stranded
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The crew of HMS Audacious being rescued
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The battleship HMS Queen Elizabeth
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A battlecruiser firing a broadside
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The battleship HMS Majestic
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HMS Canopus
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The forward guns of SMS Scharnhorst
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HMS Good Hope
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HMS Good Hope
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HMS Invincible
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HMS Good Hope
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HMS Inflexible rescuing survivors
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HMS Queen Elizabeth in the Dardanelles
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HMS Indomitable
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HMS Inflexible bombarding the Turkish gun batteries at Gallipoli
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HMS Inflexible
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The main guns of Canopus firing during the battle of the Falkland Islands
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HMS Majestic sinking on 27 May, 1915
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The River Clyde grounded on the beach at Gallipoli
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SMS Gneisenau
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SMS Scharnhorst
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3.Events
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A gathering of young Royal Naval officers
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Lady Suffragettes
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Loading supplies and mules at the quayside at the harbour of Alexandria
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ANZACs charging at Gallipoli
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Cape Helles landing map
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Commonwealth troops landing at Gallipoli
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Dead and wounded at Gallipoli
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Map of Gallipoli
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The Royal Lancashire Fusiliers landing at X Beach, Gallipoli
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Troops landing at Sulva Bay
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V beach at Gallipoli
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Prayers being held on the deck of HMS Queen Elizabeth
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Royal Lancashire Fusiliers landing at Gallipoli
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Supplies being burned on withdrawal from Gallipoli
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Transports landing troops at Lemnos
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Transports landing troops at Gallipoli
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A Turkish Army camp
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Troops resting at Sulva Bay
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A Naval Brigade landing at Gallipoli
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Supplies and mule train being loaded in Alexandria Harbour
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The scene at Mudros
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Damage in Hartlepool from the shelling of the East Coast on December 16, 1914
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The crowd outside Buckingham Palace waiting for the midnight declaration of war
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An Austrian 12-inch Howitzer
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On the home front in Britain - women workers in an ammunition factory
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Results of the raid on the East Coast on December 16, 1914 - damage to the Coastguard Station, Whitby
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V Beach in British hands. The view from the River Clyde
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Looting of shops with German sounding names on the home front
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Direct hit by a German shell on the Scarborough lighthouse on December 16, 1914
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Red Cross nurses in France. The Duchess of Westminster on the right at her hospital in Le Touquet
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The infamous red light area of Valetta - Strait Street - known to sailors as "The Gut".
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