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| At the outbreak of the Second World War the RAF's successor to the RE8 in the army cooperation, reconnaissance and artillery-spotting role was the Westland Lysander. |
| The Westland Wasp, the naval version of the British Army's Scout, was developed as a light anti-submarine helicopter for operations from small ships. |
| This helicopter was developed for naval purposes immediately after the Second World War and is today a vital naval weapon. |
| In October 1915, the poet Wilfred Owen enlisted in the Army. He was commissioned into The Manchester Regiment in June 1916, and a year later was posted to the 2nd Battalion in France. |
| Churchill would regularly wake at about 8.30am, have a cigar in bed and then hold court sitting propped up in bed. |
| The Manchester Suffrage Society was one of several founded in Britain in 1867, when John Stuart Mill unsuccessfully put forward an amendment to the second Reform Bill – the amendment might have allowed women to vote. |
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