This week we have a WWI story in the Mediterranean with the sinking of HMT Aragon off of Alexandria, Egypt. 

Sources:

"100 Years Ago." Posted by fredarth09, 01 June 2014. https://fredarth.wordpress.com/tag/hmt-aragon/

"Aragon." The Yard, http://www.theyard.info/ships/ships.asp?entryid=367

"Chaplain recalls torpedoed ship drama." The Luton New, 31 Jan 1918. http://www.worldwar1luton.com/blog-entry/chaplain-recalls-torpedoed-ships-drama

"The British Ship HMT Aragon." The University of Newcastle, https://livinghistories.newcastle.edu.au/nodes/view/101374?keywords=

"The Forgotten Ally: Japanese escorts in the First World War." https://thewellingtontrust.wordpress.com/

"The sinking of the S.S. Aragon, 30th December 1917." The Bedfordshire Regiment in the Great War, http://bedfordregiment.org.uk/5thbn/ssaragon.html

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