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    Online exhibition highlights East Riding’s role in the First World War

    May 04, 2021 1 minute

    The lives of 1,101 people from Yorkshire’s East Riding during the First World War have been uncovered by a volunteer project.

    In 2014, East Riding Archives started First World War Lives to researchnewspaper.

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