First World War death penny

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Cornwall 3 - Falmouth / Pendennis Castle/ Kastel Pendinas/an Elizabethan coastal fort facing St Mawes and a garrison fort

February 21st 2017
Today was going to be an odd one. A trip to Falmouth the home that Glenns dad had for a time in the late 1930s and early 1940's when he was garrisoned here as a marine. His job repairing the guns that would service the fort and protect England against any German invasion before he was posted abroad to fight in Italy and Egypt. Unlike my dads war service which was in Burma and impossible to track G ... read more

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