The Duke of Wellington's legacy still towers over British history today. The hero of Waterloo, vanquisher of Napoleon – poet laureate Alfred Lord Tennyson hailed him as the 'last great Englishman'.
In January 1940, aged 22, I went to France as part of the Duke of Wellington Regiment. On 12th June I was wounded and in a hospital in France. I became a POW and ended up in Czechoslovakia. In 1944/45 ...
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