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Potts - The hero with a shovel
Reading’s Fred Potts won a Victoria Cross for saving another man’s life at Gallipoli in World War One.
Now, a new unit named after him is opening at the Royal Berkshire Hospital.
In 2009, Historian Jon Cooksey and the BBC’s Graham McKechnie told his story.
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