Uploaded November 2018 | Updated September 2026, 2 weeks ago

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To mark the 100th anniversary of the end of the First World War, we asked some kids to discuss items that were popularised between 1914 – 1918.

Trenchcoats, tissues, wristwatches, all were invented in the First World War - as we thank the First World War generation



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