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Special stamps mark 80th anniversary of VE Day
Western Morning News
|April 26, 2025
A SPECIAL set of stamps is being issued to mark the 80th anniversary of VE Day.
A main set of 10 stamps will honour men and women who made contributions during the Second World War, while a mini-sheet of stamps has images of Dame Vera Lynn from different aspects of her wartime career.
People featured include:
■George Arthur Roberts, the first black man to join the London Auxiliary Fire Service, in 1938
■Mary Morris, whose diaries describe how she nursed troops returning wet and wounded from Dunkirk
This story is from the April 26, 2025 edition of Western Morning News.
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