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105-year-old WWII veteran nicknamed ‘Lucky’ had never been to Cenotaph before

Evening Standard

.Jeffrey Brereton, 105, was a Royal Air Force mechanic in the Second World War, before leaving the army to join the fire service in 1946.

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