Secret code to bypass the censor in letters home t

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Secret code to bypass the censor in letters home to his wife. (Each letter written home would be marked with a pinprick. The recipient then lined up the list of place-names alongside the letter, the pinprick supposedly aligning with the place name where the sender was billeted). Lieutenant Leslie Charles Hauting. 5th (Territorial) Battalion, The Gloucestershire Regiment. 1940.

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