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WW2 veterans outnumber former PMs for possible last time at Remembrance Sunday service
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Andy Burnham takes part at Cenotaph in London for first time alongside nine ex-premiers and 12 second world war veterans Second world war veterans outnumbered former prime ministers for what could be the last time at the national service of remembrance at the Cenotaph in central
Andy Burnham takes part at Cenotaph in London for first time alongside nine ex-premiers and 12 second world war veterans Second world war veterans outnumbered former prime ministers for what could be the last time at the national service of remembrance at the Cenotaph in central London. The number of surviving service personel from that conflict attending the service has dwindled from 20 last year to about a dozen, the oldest of whom was Jeffrey Brereton who served in the RAF. He volunteered for the air force in 1940, at the age of 19, and served as a mechanic on Hurricane aircraft during the Battle of Britain.
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