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Hugh
Jones

Hugh Jones is retired journalist who started his career with The Examiner in 1980. He later worked in the UK and Melbourne, where he now lives. His book Two Good Soldiers, One Great War was released by Forty South Publishing in 2024.


Hugh Jones is retired journalist who started his career with The Examiner in 1980. He later worked in the UK and Melbourne, where he now lives. His book Two Good Soldiers, One Great War was released by Forty South Publishing in 2024.


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For much of her life my great aunt Jean Simmons was not a happy woman ...

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