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An inglorious end

Folkestone Harbour Station’s finest hour was arguably in the Great War when millions of men passed through. It was the last building of "Blighty" that many men and nurses would have seen when they left for the Western Front, and the first they would have seen when coming home on leave. Boulogne-Folkestone was the usual route of the leave boat for most of the war.

 

www.theremembranceline.org.uk/past_military.htm

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