General Accident Insurance Building, Aldwych, London

Photograph taken October 1914 © Reproduced by permission of Historic England Archive ref: BL 22817/07

A crowd of Belgian refugees gather outside the General Accident Insurance Corporation Building in Aldwych during the first days of the First World War.

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Greater London Aldwych

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World War One (1914 - 1919)

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Thousands of soldiers were stationed in training camps near to the village of Fovant, Wiltshire during the 1914-1918 war. In memory of those who died on the battlefields, many regiments created replica cap badges on the adjacent chalk downs by turf cutting and infilling with chalk. Although many badges have not survived, several were recently restored and are now Scheduled Ancient Monuments.

General Accident Insurance Building, Aldwych, London

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