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Best regards
Zmags
spring 2014
the ROYAL BRItISh
LegIOn
shoulder to shoulder with all who serve
70
fRIdAY 6 june 2014
YEARS ON
we commemorate the biggest wartime
operation ever, with veteran memoirs
from sword Beach...
“Wearing the Queen
gives you your pride
As fellow veterans, the Chelsea Pensioners understand what it means
to be a soldier – and why life at the Royal Hospital might be for you
“We are like a huge
regimental family”
Brian Cumming MBE, 81,
ex-Royal Corps of Signals
“I married in 1951 when I was 18. Four
days later, I was shipped off to Egypt and
didn’t come back until I was 21. I served
for 33 years and was posted to Cyprus,
Singapore, Holland and Germany. But the
hardest thing I’ve ever had to do in my life
was say farewell to my wife Patricia when
she di
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