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| | BBC NEWS | UK | UK veterans awarded French honour |
 | | The veterans receiving the honour were Alexander Barron, Tom Bird, Dennis Cox, Gordon Fleming, Frank Jones, Charles Kennedy and Percy Redfern. |
 | | Major Tom Bird, from Henley-on-Thames, Oxfordshire, who was serving in the 2nd Battalion Rifle Brigade of the British Eighth Army when he received the order, in June 1942, to supply the French Bir Hakeim garrison. |
 | | Dennis Cox, from Harrogate, Yorkshire, who served on the French submarine Curie as liaison officer. |
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