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Family stunned to learn that the father they thought was 'just a cook' had secret wartime life in elite paratrooper unit tasked with rescuing British POWs, as hidden medals go on sale

The medals belonged to Captain Leslie Scott, part of a special unit made up of just 360 Allied parachute-trained special forces volunteers, many of them German-speaking.