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Inquiry sheds light on plight of seniors

Albert Orpen was born with a taste for adventure and a thirst to see the world. The son of a Portsmouth shipyard worker, at age 14 he made it into the British army by claiming to be years older, a prevarication that quickly swept him to the battlefields of Second World War France…