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Pelsall wartime hero Ernie honoured by French
Express & Star 14 Aug 10
A Second World War soldier has been immortalised in a small French town he helped liberate almost 70 years ago.
Led by Pelsall’s Ernest Blincow, who died aged 87 in February, the 59th Staffordshire Division freed then-occupied Thury Harcourt, in Normandy, in 1944.
And locals remain so grateful to the soldiers’ heroic efforts after nearly seven decades that a bridge and town hall room have now been dedicated to Ernest — known as Ernie – and his men…