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Article: THE KIDS WHO FOUGHT HITLER; REVEALED: AMAZING G TRUE STORIES OF CHILDHOOD COURAGE They grew up on the killing fields of the Great War but as the Nazi blitzkrieg was unleashed across Europe, they were to become..(Features)
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- Sunday Mail (Glasgow, Scotland)
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- November 8, 2009
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Byline: GRAHAM KEAL
MORE than 500,000 lives were lost in the bloody battles for the Flemish town of Ypres in World War I.
After the carnage, British gardeners moved with their families to Belgium to tend the graves of the fallen. Now a new book and BBC documentary has detailed the astonishing bravery of their children when Hitler's Nazis plunged Europe into war once more.
Inverness-born Walter Sutherland was one of those dedicated gardeners, all ex-servicemen, and was settled with his Belgian wife in Poperinge, near the great Lijssenthoek Cemetery, ...