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GA Review

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Reviewer: Iazyges (talk · contribs) 08:20, 6 March 2018 (UTC)[reply]

Will start soon. Iazyges Consermonor Opus meum 08:20, 6 March 2018 (UTC)[reply]

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Prose Suggestions

Brown's Victoria Cross was the second won by a soldier serving with the suggest you change this to Brown's Victoria Cross was the second awarded to a soldier serving with the

Done. Zawed (talk) 09:07, 8 March 2018 (UTC)[reply]

, having been promoted to corporal. suggest , by this time promoted to corporal.

Done. Zawed (talk) 09:07, 8 March 2018 (UTC)[reply]

However, with Brown's death it was not until the officers of his battalion started agitating suggest However, with Brown's death it was not until the officers of his battalion started lobbying, unless the protest/effort was highly public.

Prefer agitating at this stage, I don't how public the officers efforts were. Zawed (talk) 09:07, 8 March 2018 (UTC)[reply]

@Zawed: That is all my suggestions, passing now. -- Iazyges Consermonor Opus meum 05:24, 8 March 2018 (UTC)[reply]

@Iazyges:, many thanks for the review, much appreciated. Cheers, Zawed (talk) 09:07, 8 March 2018 (UTC)[reply]

CE

Cheeky little ce, auto-edded, homogenised isbns to 13s, a few typos, disamb Somme, checked for dups and dupe wikis. RV as desired. Keith-264 (talk) 20:07, 18 April 2018 (UTC)[reply]