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Quintinshill Rail Disaster= The Quintinshill rail disaster occurred on 22 May 1915 near Gretna Green, Dumfriesshire, Scotland at Quintinshill, an intermediate signal box with passing loops on each side on the Caledonian Railway Main Line linking Glasgow and Carlisle (now part of the West Coast Main Line).The crash, which involved five trains, killed a probable 226 and injured 246 and remains th...
Wartime internment camps in AustraliaPlease add persons who were interned by the Australian government during WWI and WWII.In the interests of national security the Australian Government interned thousands of men, women and children during World War I and World War II. Most of those interned were classed as 'enemy aliens', that is, nationals of countries at war with Australia. Internees were ac...