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'I shall be home for Christmas': Heart-breaking final letter from soldier who never came back home alive

Britain: This is the heart-breaking letter sent home by a 21-year-old soldier who was serving with the British Medical Expeditionary Force in Gallipoli in World War One.

He was tragically killed in action just nine days after he sent his final letter - he never made it home.

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