World War One

WW1 At Home 18 - R&R for American Volunteers & a Bristol Love Song

World War One

Show Notes

A place in the heart of London where the American soldiers got a little taste of home; a project mapping the lives of nearly 2000 men in Tynemouth, Tyne and Wear, who died in WW1 & a song to love and loss based on letters to a Bristolian wife.

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