Research Into Our War Heroes ; Now for Another War Story Going Back a Full Century to the Boer War When Those Who Fought Returned Home As Heroes and, Unlike Our Brave Men in Iraq and Afghanistan, Were Greeted by Cheering Crowds When They Arrived Back in Their Home Towns.

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Now for another war story going back a full century to the Boer War when those who fought returned home as heroes and, unlike our brave men in Iraq and Afghanistan, were greeted by cheering crowds when they arrived back in their home towns.

In Totnes some of them were given the Freedom of the Borough and that leads me to a request from Mrs Val Price, the local historian, who is researching that particular honour, hopefully for a book.

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Research Into Our War Heroes ; Now for Another War Story Going Back a Full Century to the Boer War When Those Who Fought Returned Home As Heroes and, Unlike Our Brave Men in Iraq and Afghanistan, Were Greeted by Cheering Crowds When They Arrived Back in Their Home Towns.

She is in need of information about several of the military men who were honou...

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