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First World War Soldiers Honoured In Bury

The sacrifices of two former bank employees who served during the First World War have been commemorated with a new plaque.
 
Born in the 1890s, Corporal Percy Grenfell Simmonds and Private Herbert Howarth were both killed at the Battle of the Somme.
 
The plaque has been unveiled at a Bank in Bury after their efforts were recently discovered while the building was being refurbished.
 

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