Bravery of the first order

This is a story about my uncle, Arthur Gould: he was my dad’s step-brother, in fact. He was fatally injured on the field of Arnhem and when his troop were faced with an on-coming German tank, he threw himself up onto the tank, opened the turret and dropped a grenade inside: so he blew himself up at the same time as stopping the German advance upon his men.

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