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Newspaper: The Balkan News, 8 Feb 1919, No 97. Headline reads, ‘The German Assembly to Remake Germany’. With information on plans for the Weimar government to be formed, and updates on the progress of the Spartacists, whose revolt was crushed was crushed around this time, information about the new League of Nations, and the status of Palestine as a British ‘Trust’. From papers collected by Capt Eric Richard Hanby Holmes, 1913-1941. Hanby Holmes served with the Artist’s Rifles and 6th Bn The Durham Light Infantry. By the end of the war Hanby Holmes was attached to the Royal Engineers for Army Signal Service. Papers were collected primarily while serving on the Salonika Front during World War One (1914-1918).

World War One (1914-1918)