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Letter from Pullen to R.E. de M. Leathes, Portsmouth
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Copy - reply to 30 June letter, about the loan of William Hall's Victoria Cross medals to the Atlantic Provinces Pavilion for the Canadian World's Exhibition (Expo '67). Pullen mentions the potential of having the medals on permanent display at Province House in Halifax.

Date: 11 August 1966

Reference Rear Admiral Hugh F. Pullen Nova Scotia Archives 2023-020/001-34

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