Metal detectorist finds WW2 soldier's silver cigarette case hundreds of miles from where he died
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A World War Two soldier's silver cigarette case has been found by a metal detectorist 82 years and 370 miles away from where he died. Stan Drew, from Penarth, Vale of Glamorgan, was killed on the Normandy beaches on 24 July 1944, in the months following D-Day. Yet last month his case was discovered in a field by a metal detectorist in the municipality of Bergeijk in the Netherlands. Now Filip Krapels hopes to unravel the story and return it to Stan's descendants in Wales. He said: "I've never discovered anything like this before - it's always worth going back to check areas you've already scanned, because each time ...
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