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Fraser Connery — Renfrewshire

For me, the whole Remembrance Sunday/Poppy Day situation was more of a nuisance than anything else. This opinion of mine was tempered back in my days in the local Boys Brigade…

Annually, on a wintry Sunday morning, my day of rest, I would be called up to join a squad of discordant youngsters, allegedly a B.B bugle band, which was an experience far worse than it would seem. The morning started off by leaving the warm security of my bed. I was then forced into negotiating my way through the dark dangerous no man’s land until I finally encountered the bottom of the stairs where I would engage

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