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Old 03-08-15, 06:05 AM   #1107
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Default New Hackney photo gives personal perspective

PADDLE STEAMER EMPRESS QUEENFrom Newly discovered photos: http://www.telegraph.co.uk/history/world-war-one/11238280/Unseen-WW1-photographs-by-Irish-Rifleman-uncovered.html?frame=3110134 Photograph taken English Channel, 4 October 1915. The Battalion sailed from Southampton to Boulogne on the former Isle of Man paddle steamer Empress Queen. Some men are seen sleeping on the deck while others look overboard for the threat of German U-boats.Picture: George Hackney/Ulster Museum/Mercury Press
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