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    Family ties in Blighty during WW2

    Jul 14, 2023 3 minutes

    t’s a custom throughout the world in many, if not most, civilisations for given names for children to sometimes be the same as parents, or grandparents. For names that are well known in the UK, then the given name Robert in the family of Bruce will be one, beginning with King Robert Bruce of Scotland. It’s fitting then that both covers illustrated and described are addressed to The Hon. Mrs Robert Bruce at a country house in Scotland during 1940 and 1941, this Robert Bruce being

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