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Bristol Broadband Co-operative
Operation Frankton: Cockleshell Heroes (2010) Quentin Rees
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Oct. 20, 2017, 6:42 a.m.
John Bampfylde is the chairman of Bath trades council and former convener at Bath Press before it closed in 2002. He talks about his father’s mutiny as a soldier in Burma, refusing – after the Japanese surrender - to go to fight in Malaya – then his degree in Industrial Relations where he met many of Thatchers Children and jobs working for the Big Issue and Citizens Advice Bureau oh yes and he’s also part of Bath against the cuts
https://bathagainstcuts.wordpress.com

We also hear about WWII operations from the author of Cockleshell Heroes (2010) Quentin Rees
What became of the young, exceptionally brave men of Operation Frankton in 1942?
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/history/world-war-two/8090441/Cockleshell-Heroes-the-truth-at-last.html

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