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Meet the soldier who fired the first shot of World War 1

UK: But the man who pulled the trigger at that turning point in our ­nation’s history was never to find out whether he’d killed his target.

The shot was fired by a 20-year-old private, Ernest Edward Thomas, a strapping young soldier of the 4th Dragoon Guards.

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