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WREST PARK AT WAR
Find out how, during the First World War, Wrest Park in Bedfordshire was put to use as a military hospital which treated 1,600 patients over the course of the war.
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A SOLDIER'S LETTERS
Discover how the letters of John Glasson Thomas, who was posted to Pendennis Castle in the First World War, offer a very special record of one man's Great War.
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OPERATION DYNAMO: THE DUNKIRK EVACUATION
The mission to evacuate Dunkirk in May 1940 was directed from Dover Castle’s secret wartime tunnels. Find out the key facts about Operation Dynamo.