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King honours Kenyan World War veterans

King Charles III talks to World War two veteran Charles Mburia at Kariorkor War Cemetery in Nairobi when the King went to pay tribute to the fallen soldiers. [Denish Ochieng, Standard]

Donning a black suit freighted with medals, World War II veteran Michael Deya Nyagudi watches proudly as Britain's King Charles III honours four of his comrades-in-arms at the Kariokor Cemetery.

Unlike his peers, who because of the vagaries of war and old age are on wheelchairs, Nyagudi can walk albeit with a walking stick, which he clasps with his left hand drilling it into the soil with every step.

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