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  • Who Do You Think You Are?

    ‘MY GREAT AUNT DIED SAVING LIVES’

    Feb 09, 2021 2 minutes

    HELEN BROOKS is a teaching assistant in Great Dunmow, Essex. Please email us if you are related to George Wright

    On 25 January 1947 Britain was in the grip of the worst winter on record, and snow was falling amid the fog at Croydon Airport.

    Airline owner and pilot Edward Spencer had worked all night to prepare his

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