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Note on the back reads:

“Mohamedan cemetery on the ‘Mount of Olives’. They believe the resurrection will take place here. E.R. 17.5.18”

Evan Samuel Rees joined the army at 19 and served in the Middle East during the First World War. Medal no.1669, PTE E. S. Rees with the R.A.M.C (Royal Army Medical Corps). He survived the WW1 and returned to live at home in the Swansea area.

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