Mr Cracknell will receive his medal at a ceremony at Framlingham College, where he worked as a boy. The presentation will be made by the French military attaché.

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Men brought over from the French colonies in North Africa and West Africa to fight and to die for France, the nation that had taken over their own countries by military force in the 19th century.