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Forgotten war hero's medal traced back

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ON the centenary of the Armistice Michael Furmston clutched a piece of his family's history which had been buried for decades since the war.

It was a World War One campaign medal, which belonged to Herbert Furmston, one of the war's forgotten heroes, a rifleman with from a Liverpool regiment - who was his grandfather's brother's son.

Metal detectorist Justin Critchlow discovered the medal in Leek, Staffordshire, this summer, and set about trying to find the soldier's family.........

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:g38: :g38: :g38: nice story......

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