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Sapper's WWI diaries on display

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Three volumes of diaries written by a soldier from Cornwall depicting life in the trenches in World War I have gone on display.

The diaries were written by Sapper John French, from Redruth.

The diaries cover 1915 to 1917 and in them he tells how he lost friends in battle and how, in lighter moments, enemies exchanged jokes.

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