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Copenhagen Street, Barnsbury

Before the war the Steam Ship Anglia was used on the Dublin-Holyhead ferry route but in 1914 she was requisitioned by the government and used as a hospital ship, bringing back wounded men from France to England. Whilst on such a mission on 17th November, 1915 she hit a mine laid by the German submarine UC-5 when just off the coast near Folkestone. Within 15 minute the ship sank and 164 people had died including crew, medical staff and patients. Ernest Hodgkins of the Royal Army Medical Corps was one who did not survive the voyage.