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Helena Rosa Duncombe Shafto: Celebrating a Legacy of Service with a Blue PlaqueA blue plaque has been unveiled on a house once lived in by the first Honorary Freewoman of Durham. Helena Rosa Duncombe Shafto OBE was bestowed with the honour “in appreciation of her devoted labours on behalf of the Durham Light Infantry (DLI) prisoners of war (POWs)”. Born in 1854, her interest in the DLI…Read the story →