Re: WW1 wounded shipped back to UK?

On Thu, 28 Aug 2008 21:01:17 +0100, Graeme Wall
<Graeme@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

In message <tsndb45rg5rfhuu3634bidruqrcmbqe50h@xxxxxxx>
Don Aitken <don-aitken@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

No part of the Netherlands was occupied by the Germans - the country
was neutral throughout.

I wasn't sure whether they may have occupied the Walcheren penisular to
control the access to Antwerpen, much as they did in The Great War - the
sequel.

Drifting a bit, but I found it interesting - someone on another group
has probably pinned down the first use of "First World War". Many
people, including H.G.Wells, used it before WWII, but the earliest
seems to be the war correspondant Col. Repington, who used it as the
title of his memoirs, published in 1920. The memoirs are in diary
form, and the phrase first occurs in 1918, before the end of the war.

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