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    "localId": "105251",
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    "title": "Medal",
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            "inscription": "obverse - \"Offensive Brittanique 1917\"; signed: \"S. E. Vernier, 1921.\"\r\nreverse - \"Vimy, Arras, Ypres, Marechal Sir Douglas Haig, Generaux Sir Henry Horne, Sir Herbert Plumer, Sir Julian Byng, Sir Hubert Gough.\""
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