10 Aug 2014
Papers of first Earl Beatty on the Battle of Heligoland Bight, 28 August 1914
August’s Item of the Month has been chosen to mark the centennial anniversary of the first major naval engagement of the First World War, the Battle of Heligoland Bight on 28 August 1914. It is a folder of papers from the Beatty collection numbered BTY/3/1 in the Archive Catalogue.