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Daily Mirror
Daily Mirror
National
Phil Cardy

Grieving parents of soldier claim MOD said to replace his medals with fakes after suicide

The parents of a soldier who took his own life after facing the horrors of war were told to replace lost medals with FAKES.

Lynne Johnstone and her husband were grieving the loss of PTSD-stricken son Duncan when she approached top brass about replacement medals.

They wanted them as keepsakes after Duncan, known as DJ, lost his own while battling catastrophic mental ill-health. He took his own life at just 38.

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