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HMS Acasta

As we approach the centenary, UK parliamentarians are collecting information about what their relatives did in World War 1. The grandfather of Oliver Colvile MP was at the Battle of Jutland, the decisive 1916 naval battle of the war in Europe which bottled up the threat of the German High Seas Fleet for the rest of the War. The two letters below were his eye witness accounts written shortly afterwards.

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