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McMordie Scout Hall, Belfast: Boys Bring In the Harvest
Around eighty thousand Boy Scouts served in the Great War. One in ten of these young men never returned.
Back on the home front, how did the labour of a group of Belfast Scouts help wartime aircraft soar?
Location: McMordie Scout Hall, Oakland Avenue, Belfast BT4 3BW
Image of Boy Scouts harvesting flax in Tullymurry, Co Down
Image courtesy of Andrew Totten
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