Korea veteran Sam Mercer dies at 91

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Korea veteran Sam Mercer dies at 91

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Sebastian Andrew 'Sam' Mercer (Barnes A 1939-44) gets an admiring obituary in the Telegraph:

https://www.telegraph.co.uk/obituaries/ ... -obituary/
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Can you copy/paste the article for those of us who don't have a Telegraph subscription?
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Re: Korea veteran Sam Mercer dies at 91

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obituary
https://irp-cdn.multiscreensite.com/a33 ... 286%29.pdf

I see the famous Empire Windrush gets a neutral memtion

also mentioned in
https://www.forces.net/heritage/history ... korean-war

btw ajarn; that would constitute breach of copyright.
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He was certainly at C.H. but cannot have been very happy as he 'ran away.' Must have been a story there.
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Re: Korea veteran Sam Mercer dies at 91

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Ajarn Philip wrote: Wed Feb 17, 2021 5:30 pm Can you copy/paste the article for those of us who don't have a Telegraph subscription?
sejintenej wrote: Wed Feb 17, 2021 5:42 pm btw ajarn; that would constitute breach of copyright.
Sadly true, I believe - but the obit to which Sejintenej has kindly linked covers most of the same ground; indeed the Telegraph writer evidently drew on it heavily.
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