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Army cop keeper of English jail recalls three foreign armies
Pvt. Harry B. Wilson, 25, an Army MP with a scar from a Moor in Spain, guards a U S Army jail in England. He served with the French Foreign Legion and fought Arabs in Africa Fascists in Spain and Germans in France. He carried Croix de Guerre Palme and U S decorations. He ran away to sea at 12 and 15, later serving in multiple ports worldwide before becoming an MP in England.
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