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| | Aftermath: Newsclips - First World War veterans honoured in Paris (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08) |
 | | Eleven British first world war veterans, the oldest 104, yesterday attended a ceremony at Les Invalides in Paris at which the youngest of them, Fred Bunday, 98, was awarded France's highest honour |
 | | Mr Bunday, from Sidcup, Kent, whose father was a naval pallbearer at Queen Victoria's funeral and whose son recently retired as a commander in the Royal Navy, said he considered himself "a very lucky young man to be in good enough health for the trip." |
 | | The ceremony, organised by the World War One Veterans' Association, went ahead despite the death last Monday of William Southern, 100, who served with the 2nd Welsh Regiment at the Somme and Passchendaele and was also due to be awarded the medal and ribbons by a retired French general, Jean Guinard. |
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