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Christmas Leave - 1936

3 May 2022
Written by Joseph Burdett
Dukie News
Like Father, like Son!
Like Father, like Son!

This is my Father - CSM Joseph R Burdett - Coldstream Guards, and myself (Joseph Burdett - Wolseley House) taken at the Guards Depot, Caterham, Surrey.

He was especially proud of me, more so, when I left DYRMS, and took my Commission into the Leicestershire Regiment.

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