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Michael at the memorial of Thomas Samuel Henry Peacefull
Michael Morpurgo’s novel Private Peaceful was partly inspired by the memorial of a young soldier that he saw in the Bedford House Cemetery in Ypres, Flanders. A few years after the book first published, Maxine Keeble was researching her family tree and thought that there might be a connection. She… Read More