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Coalpool family to make Falklands pilgrimage
Express & Star 7 Nov 10
The parents of a Falklands War hero from Coalpool in Walsall, are preparing to visit the battlefield where he was killed. Private Mark Dodsworth was shot as he tended to an injured soldier during the battle of Mount Longdon in 1982.
Parents Bryan and Carole will go on the emotional pilgrimage to the islands for the first time, and attend a remembrance service in honour of fallen heroes. They will lay a plaque next to a tree planted in his memory at the capital, Stanley. Trees were planted by townsfolk to remember each person killed in the conflict…