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Air with Armed Men

Being shelled is the main work of an infantry soldier, which no one talks about. Everyone has his own way of going about it. In general, it means lying face down and contracting your body into as small a space as possible.

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2014 marks the 100th anniversary of the start of ‘The Great War’. It is an anniversary that is being commemorated nationally and the Bridport Heritage Forum would like to mark the occasion by a series of events in the town.

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