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Day 1 of Galway and an object lesson in remembering names.

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Nick Boyd
Jul 28, 2025
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As every Englishman knows, there are only four or five Welsh family names shared between the entire nation. Jones, Davies and Williams, Evans too and Thomas and, lest one thinks them ordinary, they’re all of them names associated with Victoria Cross recipients from Lucknow to Rourke’s Drift, from the Somme to the Atlantic Ocean. Remembered, distinguishe…

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