Hoping this will meet with your approval
An important letter from Lieutenant Colonel Alfred D. Wintle
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Lieutenant Colonel Alfred D. Wintle was opinionated, brave, comical, intelligent, and, most importantly, hugely entertaining—a true “character.” He once attempted to escape a hospital dressed as a female nurse in order to rejoin the war effort, but his monocle gave him away; as a prisoner of war in France duri…
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