Rejected petition Ron Jones, aged 99, after 40 years of selling poppies should be awarded an OBE

Ron Jones is 99, and has sold poppies for the Royal British Legion for the last 40 years.

He is a survivor of the Auschwitz concentration camp, was marched nearly 900 miles across Europe and lost nearly half his body weight.

He told his story in a recent book "The Auschwitz Goalkeeper."

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Date submitted 2 November 2016
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