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    Poignant letter from ex-Cornet killed in action at El Alamein

    Friday, November 6th, 2020
    Ex-Cornet Viv Grieve, above, was killed in the Battle of El Alamein

    A letter from an ex-Cornet serving in the Middle East during the Second World War would not have arrived in Hawick before the sender was killed in action in the deserts of North Africa.

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