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Evening Standard
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Sam Russell

Veteran who got 16,000 cards for 100th birthday set for France’s top honour

A Second World War veteran who received more than 16,000 cards for his 100th birthday is to receive France’s highest honour.

Dougie Shelley, who joined the Royal Navy aged 17, was a seaman gunner on the destroyer HMS Milne on D-Day.

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