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Ruth Jones tears up with emotion as she discovers granddad lobbied for founding of NHS

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Gavin & Stacey star Ruth Jones finds out how her grandad lobbied for the founding of the NHS – only to be denied a chance to work in it.

The actress and writer makes the emotional discovery on BBC1’s Who Do You Think You Are? after saying she’d “love to know more” about her grand-fathers, who died before she was born.

Talking about growing up in Porthcawl, South Wales, Ruth, 54, says: “My grandmothers both lived around the corner and were involved in bringing me up, but I never knew my grand-fathers.

It feels like there is a missing piece because they have been these elusive figures in our family for so long.” On her fathers’ side of the family she learns that Henry Richard Jones, born in 1897, attended to those injured in the Navy early in

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