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We will remember them

ARRY PEARSON writes that ‘Every weathervane tells a story’ (): this battered example sits atop Newport Stables in Melton Mowbray, Leicestershire, home for paras of the 156 Parachute Battalion in 1944. Early in the morning of September 18 that year, they were leaving to take part in the Battle of Arnhem and, given that consequential punishment would be unlikely, a few decided to take pot shots at the weathervane. Their assumption proved terribly