It was an ordinary late afternoon in July when 14 year old Mary Waggett was strolling around her local area near her house when she saw something floating in the water. This shocking discovery starts off an investigation into the death of Madamoiselle Albertina, who's real name was Louisa Maud Evans, a girl of only 14 years of age and the unusual circumstances of the premature end of her life.

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The BIG Bristol to London Stroll

If you wish to donate and sponsor our endeavours to raise money for the Suicide Prevention Bristol charity, then go to our dedicated Justgiving page. This walk and the money raised is dedicated to Sara, who sadly passed away in March this year. Remember, if you feel low, there's always someone you can talk to and you are more important than you probably know.

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SOURCES

https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-wales-57932076

Cardiff Times - Saturday 01 August 1896

Cardiff Times - Saturday 05 December 1896

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Francis Fox Tuckett, alpinist and explorer renowned for scaling 269 peaks in his lifetime.

The son of Francis and Mariana Tuckett, born in Winterbourne on the outskirts of Bristol, his first experience of climbing was with his father when he was only 12 years old. From then, the adventurer changed the world of mountaineering and was described as a pioneer of Alpine exploration ‘whose name was known throughout the Alps’.

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If you wish to donate and sponsor our endeavours to raise money for the Suicide Prevention Bristol charity, then go to our dedicated Justgiving page. This walk and the money raised is dedicated to Sara, who sadly passed away in March this year. Remember, if you feel low, there's always someone you can talk to and you are more important than you probably know.

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SOURCES

Ancestry.com

Bristol Mercury - Saturday 04 March 1871

Edward Whymper, Scrambles amongst the Alps, 6th edition

Tuckett, F. F., ''A Pioneer in the High Alps: Alpine Diaries and Letters of F. F. Tuckett, 1856–1874

Francis Fox Tuckett, Alpine Journal, Vol. 1, 1863

"A Grand Tour of Frenchay" by John Lucena

Frenchay Museum

The Seed (Bristol Grammer School's student run newspaper)

London Evening Standard - Thursday 26 November 1868

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The Llandovery Castle was travelling to Bristol after taking wounded Canadian servicemen home. She was displaying all the right signals to say she was a Hospital ship but just near the Fastnet lighthouse, she was torpedoed. What happened next angered the world.

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SOURCES

Yorkshire Post and Leeds Intelligencer - Wednesday 13 July 1921

Aberdeen Press and Journal - Thursday 14 July 1921

"The Sinking of the Llandovery Castle". The Great War Primary Documents Archive. 2012. Retrieved 20 January 2014.

Yorkshire Post and Leeds Intelligencer - Monday 18 July 1921

Larne Times - Saturday 06 July 1918

Mullins, C, 1921, The Leipzig Trials: An Account of the War Criminals' Trials and Study of German Mentality, Witherby, London

Western Daily Press - Wednesday 30 April 1919

Murray, M, 1953, Union-Castle Chronicle, Longmans, Green & Co, London

Willis, J, 1982, Prologue to Nuremberg: The Politics and Diplomacy of Punishing War Criminals of the First World War, Greenwoord Publishing Group

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