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His wife Sue is a teaching assistant at the school, and pupils wanted to do something to show their support for the former soldier.<\/p>\n<p>Mr Sinclair had been in the forces for 22 years and was a staunch supporter of Help for Heroes.<\/p>\n<p>&quot;They raised a massive amount and I was very proud of all the children and the support from the parents,&quot; Mrs Sinclair explained.<\/p>\n<p>Children at the school completed 20 laps around the playing field for sponsorship, while a family fun day was held at the local pub to top up the fund.<img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"ADNFCR-2867-ID-801618052-ADNFCR\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.directnews.co.uk\/feedtrack\/justcopyright.gif?feedid=2867&amp;itemid=801618052\"\/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Charitable groups in West Sussex have been working for Help for Heroes.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":4371,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2321","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-support-soldiers"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v25.2 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>West Sussex locals raise &quot;amazing&quot; 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