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Great War Stories 3 - Peter Howden
Television (Full Length Episode) – 2016
...when he gets a telegram with news that Rhoda has given birth to their son, he's ecstatic.– Hilary Barry describes Peter Howden's reaction to news from home
Here we are again, back into the clatter of guns, and all the desolation and destruction of war.– Peter Howden writes to his wife after returning to the front in Belgium, 1 October 1917
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