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DUKE OF WELLINGTON DEAD.; He Was Henry Wellesley, Grandson of the Victor of Waterloo.

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Prisoner of War: France 1940

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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Gamekeeper to the Duke of Wellington

This story was submitted to the People’s War site by Bill Ross of the ‘Action Desk — Sheffield’ Team on behalf of Judith Taylor, and has been added to the site with the author’s permission. The author ...
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The Duke of Wellington: Forging the 'Iron Duke'

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'.