Calling all War Brides! George Batchelor, 68, the official town crier of Southampton, England, was at City Hall yesterday to loudly invite Metro residents to Return to Blighty Week next June for the city's 1989 war brides reunion and commemoration of the 45th anniversary of D-Day.

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Calling all War Brides! George Batchelor, 68, the official town crier of Southampton, England, was at City Hall yesterday to loudly invite Metro residents to Return to Blighty Week next June for the city's 1989 war brides reunion and commemoration of the 45th anniversary of D-Day.

Date9/27/1988

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Lennon, Frank (photographer)

Toronto Star (Firm) (publisher)

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