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My father-in-law, Jack Hughes was a seargeant with a field intelligence unit serving in France. He remembers that one day his officer called a meeting in a woodland clearing. As they discussed the business of the day, a shot rang out and the officer dropped dead beside Jack, shot clean through the head by a German sniper. He says that they learnt from that incident never to hold meetings in clearings in future! Incidentally, he put his survival of the war down to his diminutive stature (he was only 5' 3" tall) as all the German shots went over his head!

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