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May 2004 Subject: D
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Title:
Geoffrey Hobbs' D-Day memories
14671119 Private Geoffrey Hobbs, from Slimbridge,
Landed on a Normandy beach four days after D Day.
He was a member of the 11th battalion Durham light
infantry and he and his comrades were on the way to the front line. There
he witnessed the death of his best friend.
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