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McMordie Scout Hall, Belfast: Boys Bring In the Harvest

World War One At Home

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Around eighty thousand Boy Scouts served in the Great War. One in ten of these young men never returned. Back on the home front, how did the labour of a group of Belfast Scouts help wartime aircraft soar? Location: McMordie Scout Hall, Oakland Avenue, Belfast BT4 3BW Image of Boy Scouts harvesting flax in Tullymurry, Co Down Image courtesy of Andrew Totten

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