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Original Text (Annotation: EPW057287 / 701917)
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Now Wards End Chambers, a commercial office building but in 1914 it was the Commercial Temperance Hotel. The proprietors, Walter & Ellen Bentley, sent their son, George, then aged three, out on to the streets of Halifax, dressed in a khaki uniform that is said to have been a replica of the local Duke of Wellington's Regiment uniform. He collected money for war funds and became known in the town as "Little Khaki George". He collected more than £100 during World War One - a considerable sum for the time!
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