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Posted by Nicholas Smith
on September 3, 2008, 20:56:19
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Name: Niholas Smith
> Email: nicsmith@vic.chariot.net.au
> Telephone:
> Message: Can you please help? I was in London recently and got directions from
> a fellow in his eighties named Alex. Turned out Alex was the ONLY non Welsh
> member of the 35th Division that landed on D-day. He fought throughout Europe
> and was in the artillery fighting 5.5inch howitzers. He sported the 35th Welsh
> Division Badge, a Veterans Badge, an Artillery Badge, and a British Legion
> Badge. Could you please put a surnane to him and let me know if he was
> decorated. Our meeting was brief but my wife and I took pictures with him and
> I d like to know a little more about him,if possible. Lovely chap and sadly, a
> dying generation, through he was very sprightly. regards Nick Smith (Australia)
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