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Colonel Simon Vandeleur will be part of a group cycling 350-miles between Brussels and Arnhem in aid of the Help for Heroes charity, the Scotsman reports.<\/p>\n
The 53-year-old and the rest of the gang will stop off at Joe's Bridge in northern Belgium – which was defended in the Second World War by his great uncle, Brigadier John Ormsby Evelyn 'Joe' Vandeleur.<\/p>\n
And his great uncle has since been immortalised by a character played by Michael Caine in the film A Bridge Too Far.<\/p>\n
Of his fundraising plans, Colonel Vandeleur explained: "I'm going to leave the army next year and I think it's a way of being able to put something back into the system."<\/p>\n
Elgin Rotary Club recently organised a 4.6-mile long human chain, wherein participants held hands with one another, to generate cash for Help for Heroes.<\/p>\n
Posted by Samantha Thompson
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Colonel Simon Vandeleur’s great uncle was a hero in the Second World War.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":6186,"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-506","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-support-soldiers"],"yoast_head":"\n