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Special set of stamps mark 80th VE Day anniversary

Somerset Guardian

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May 01, 2025

A special set of stamps is being issued to mark the 80th anniversary of VE Day.

- Alan Jones

Special set of stamps mark 80th VE Day anniversary

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.

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