We recently received an email from former Mayor of Wolverhampton and Labour councillor Phil Bateman who has visited the war grave of a Wednesfield born soldier in Singapore.
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A 26-year-old former Wednesfield High School pupil has been hailed as a hero after being mentioned in Despatches for risking his life to help move a stricken armoured vehicle coming under mortar, rocket and small arms fire from up to 15 enemy fighters. The incident occurred in February 2009 during Craftsman Martin Banks’s first operational […]