A soldier’s Bible from the First World War still bears the scars of conflict – two bullet holes from where it “took the brunt” of a German machine-gun attack. Private Leslie Friston, who served with the Royal Army Medical Corps, was blinded and left with respiratory problems following a gas attack in 1917. As he... Read More
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