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The war widow, the love story – and the Australian flag stitched from Japanese rags

· By Peter FitzSimons
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On Remembrance Day, Hazel Donaldson tells the story of her late husband Jimmy, and the flag made by Diggers in a Japanese prisoner-of-war camp at the end of World War II.

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