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A Durham soldier's heroic efforts to save a fallen comrade on the Somme battlefield
“IT WILL comfort you, I am sure, to know how he passed away,” wrote Dr Geoffrey Barss, medical officer of the 19th Battalion of the Durham Light Infantry to Elizabeth Ann Yule, the widow of Sgt Robert
“IT WILL comfort you, I am sure, to know how he passed away,” wrote Dr Geoffrey Barss, medical officer of the 19th Battalion of the Durham Light Infantry to Elizabeth Ann Yule, the widow of Sgt Robert Yule who had been killed on the Somme on July 17, 1916.
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