18/04/12
1916 – the year that spawned the Police, Factories, Etc (Miscellaneous Provisions) Act – also gave us:
- Battle of the Somme
- The Easter Rising
- Battle of Jutland*
- Portugal’s declaration of war on Germany
- US incursions into Mexico in the hunt for revolutionary Pancho Villa (pictured)
- The first tanks in combat
- Births: Gone with the Wind actress Olivia de Havilland, Kirk Douglas, former prime minister Edward Heath, co-discover of DNA Francis Watson
- Completion of the The Planets by Gustav Holst
It was quite a year!
*At which the grandfather of PFRA’s head of comms fought, on board the battleship HMS Hercules.
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