Social Media Issues Call to Remember Veteran

By Taegan Goddard

Posted November 11, 2013 at 9:33am

Harold Jellicoe Percival, a veteran of Bomber Command in World War II, died last month aged 99. The death notice in his local paper said that there was nobody to attend his funeral.

As BuzzFeed notes, what happened next was amazing.

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