'Marine fusiliers involved in a street battle in Diksmuide', Flanders, Belgium mb-code 42-26194961 'Britannia-the Unprotected Female

'Britannia-the Unprotected Female

It had had a third reading in the Commons but was being fiercely opposed

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'Marine fusiliers involved in a street battle in Diksmuide', Flanders, Belgium mb-code 42-26194961 'Britannia-the Unprotected Female'Marine fusiliers involved in a street battle in Diksmuide', Flanders, Belgium, 1914 (1926). French marines in action during the Battle of the Yser which stopped the German advance and secured the Belgian coast for the Allies in October 1914. The town of Diksmuide was effectively reduced to rubble during World War I and was rebuilt in the 1920s.