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What you can find when not really looking 9 years 4 months ago #23852

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Some years ago I bought a pair of medals to a SGT. William Beavan King's Shropshire LI.,
Today whilst looking through old newspapers I found a newspaper caption reporting the following


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What you can find when not really looking 9 years 4 months ago #23856

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And what happened next? Seems unlikely that he would have escaped hanging, unless the judge and jury thought that provocation mitigated the deed.

Patrick

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What you can find when not really looking 9 years 4 months ago #23862

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This is a stroke of good fortune on your part! I always find that this adds to the story of the man (if not the value of the medals)

Well done and, as Patrick implies, follow up with the newspapers of the period to get the end result which I hope you will share with us.

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Rory
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