How Private Huxtable's Silver Matchbox Found Its Way Home ; Amazing Tale of Trinket That Survived Great War and Three Owners
Daily Mail › February 20, 2004
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LEAVING to fight in the First World War, Thomas Frederick Huxtable took with him a treasured memento of home.
As a farewell gift, his mother had given him a silver matchbox inscribed with his initials. Tragically, the young British artilleryman died a few months later.See the full content of this document
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How Private Huxtable's Silver Matchbox Found Its Way Home ; Amazing Tale of Trinket That Survived Great War and Three Owners
But the matchbox survived and decades later, by an astonishing chain of events, found its way back to his home town.
Incredibly, despite falling...See the full content of this document
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