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Guernsey children evacuating to England on the SS Viking, June 1940.
Posted by: GILLIAN MAWSON

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Dates in History

WWI: Germany declares war on France

3rd August 1914

When the German Empire began to mobilize on 30th July 1914, France, sporting significant animosity over the German conquest of Alsace-Lorraine during the Franco-Prussian War, ordered French mobilization on 1 August. Germany declared war on France just two days later.

Numbering over five million men, Britain's army in the First World War was the biggest in the country's history. Remarkably, nearly half those men who served in it were volunteers. 2,466,719 men enlisted between August 1914 and December 1915, many in response to the appeals of the Field-Marshal Lord Kitchener.… Read more at Pen & Sword...

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