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Market Harborough’s Great War centenary told in five posters

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Posted 12 months ago by John Dilley.

April 3, 1917 – Teenage farmhand escapes ‘a good birching’ after he admits slicing off heifer’s teat with a shovel

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Posted 3 years ago by John Dilley.

March 20, 1917 – British soldiers notch up victories in the moonlit Middle East

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