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Radio 5 Live,1 min

Hundreds at war veteran Harold Jellicoe Percival funeral

Shelagh Fogarty

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Hundreds of people attended the funeral of war veteran Harold Jellicoe Percival in Lancashire after an appeal in a local newspaper and on social media. "We thought there would be just two or three of us" said the great nephew of Mr Percival who died in October aged 99. He had served as ground crew for the famous Dambusters raid during World War Two.

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