The captain of the men of death

St Mary, Clifford, Herefordshire 

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Almost on the border with Wales this church stands high on a wooded hill with views to the River Wye.

 

 

Doctor Oscar Bagster Trumper is recorded as having died from pneumonia - "the captain of the men of death" - on Boxing Day, 1932.  

 

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