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Jane has picture potential

A widow is about to start out on a modelling career after her face was chosen from the pages of the Kidderminster Shuttle.

She was pictured in the weekly paper with her late husband’s war medals and has been picked by a forces charity to feature in its national campaign.

The Soldiers, Sailors, Airmen and Families Association, will use a photograph of 75-year-old Jane Jeffs in its autumn advertising to tell people about its work.

Her husband William was the first man to receive a posthumous Russian Commemorative Medal. Her story and the picture, taken by former photographer Peter Ainsley, featured in the Kidderminster Shuttle early last year.

The SSAFA backed her in her campaign to claim the Russian medal posthumously for her husband, one of 2,000 surviving war veterans who worked on North Atlantic operations in appalling conditions escorting supply ships to Russia in World War Two.

The picture will be published in Good For You, distributed through hospitals, surgeries, health centres and supermarkets.

An SSAFA spokesman said: “We were very impressed by the photo of Mrs Jeffs with her husband’s war medals and feel it will tell people more about the work we do.”

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