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AR42/1/3
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- 09 Nov 1914 (Creation)
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Another family friend, CJ, will apparently soon be counted to shin up country districts. The Sandisons prepare to welcome the Protestant pastor of Liege and his family, who are refugees . Alex Sandison is back in his own home and preparing lectures. Sandison agrees with Tom about Hamilton and Annie working for the men of the Flying Fish. His hymns are at the printers.
(Li232ge, in Belgium, was invaded by the German Second Army in August 1914. Despite strong local resistance, and the protective ring of six forts, the town finally fell to the Second Armys Major-General Ludendorff. From August 1914 onwards almost 1,000 Belgian refugees arrived in Croydon. Some were accommodated in private residences, as here, while others were cared for by the self-appointed Belgian Refugees Committee, which eventually became the Croydon War Refugees Committee.)
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