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Radio Shropshire,3 mins
'It was a time of great relief'
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103 year old Reverend Antony Hearle of Church Stretton remembers VJ Day, when he was 23 years old. He was friends with Acting Major John Stanfield who witnessed the surrender of the Japanese on behalf of the British Army. "Generally speaking we kept quiet about it, the whole thing was so terrible we didn't want to talk about it". Antony told his grandson, Âé¶¹Éç Radio Shropshire's James Hearle.
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