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Veteran shocked to read his own obituary after Army newsletter 'exaggerated'

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veteran was shocked to read his own obituary in a forces' newsletter. Col. Ron Back channeled Mark Twain after the mishap in the Airborne Network.

The chair of the Royal British Legion New Milton & District Branch told the Advertiser & Times: “The details printed about me were correct – apart from the obvious. "It will certainly make a nice after-dinner story, whenever I might get a chance to tell any after-dinner stories!“It’s not something everybody gets to do – read their own obituary!”Col.

Back said the announcement published last November got his birth in 1936 and commission in 1955 to the Royal Artillery right.His branch secretary Phyllis Inglis informed him after she was asked about his reported death by a committee member.Col.

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