Poster, Red Cross hospital ship, WW1

First World War poster: What a Red Rag is to a Bull, the Red Cross is to the Hun. Showing a German U-boat torpedoing a clearly marked British hospital ship, which is what happened to HMHS Rewa on 4 January 1918, off the coast of Devon. Four engine men died in the initial explosion; the remaining crew and wounded men were able to get into lifeboats before she sank. The attack violated the Hague Convention, and caused outrage in Britain

Hmhs Rewa Torpedo Torpedoing

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