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Korea veteran Sam Mercer dies at 91
Posted: Wed Feb 17, 2021 5:00 pm
by Trongon Charsley
Sebastian Andrew 'Sam' Mercer (Barnes A 1939-44) gets an admiring obituary in the
Telegraph:
https://www.telegraph.co.uk/obituaries/ ... -obituary/
Re: Korea veteran Sam Mercer dies at 91
Posted: Wed Feb 17, 2021 5:30 pm
by Ajarn Philip
Can you copy/paste the article for those of us who don't have a Telegraph subscription?
Re: Korea veteran Sam Mercer dies at 91
Posted: Wed Feb 17, 2021 5:42 pm
by sejintenej
obituary
https://irp-cdn.multiscreensite.com/a33 ... 286%29.pdf
I see the famous Empire Windrush gets a neutral memtion
also mentioned in
https://www.forces.net/heritage/history ... korean-war
btw ajarn; that would constitute breach of copyright.
Re: Korea veteran Sam Mercer dies at 91
Posted: Wed Feb 17, 2021 6:44 pm
by Foureyes
He was certainly at C.H. but cannot have been very happy as he 'ran away.' Must have been a story there.
David
Re: Korea veteran Sam Mercer dies at 91
Posted: Wed Feb 17, 2021 6:44 pm
by Trongon Charsley
Ajarn Philip wrote: ↑Wed Feb 17, 2021 5:30 pm
Can you copy/paste the article for those of us who don't have a Telegraph subscription?
sejintenej wrote: ↑Wed Feb 17, 2021 5:42 pm
btw ajarn; that would constitute breach of copyright.
Sadly true, I believe - but the obit to which Sejintenej has kindly linked covers most of the same ground; indeed the
Telegraph writer evidently drew on it heavily.