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Radio London,12 mins

Remembering a war hero

Robert Elms

Available for over a year

Historian Louise Raw tells the amazing story of Sargeant George Arthur Roberts, a Trinidadian soldier who fought in the World War One, volunteered as a firefighter in London during the Second World War and was one of the founders of The British Legion.

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