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Radio Berkshire,38 mins

Potts - The hero with a shovel

Phil Mercer

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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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