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Family to return Iron Cross that German soldier gave war baby in 1915

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A medal which a fugitive German POW pressed into the hands of a one-year-old child during a failed escape in north Wales has been uncovered 100 years later. Lieutenant Commander Hermann Tholens handed the Iron Cross to youngster Beti Jones as she was being pushed in her pram in August 1915.


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