Army surplus store boss Paul Bruton is putting out an SOS to retrieve the unusual squaddie mannequin which has stood guard outside his shop for years.
He thinks pranksters could be responsible - but with the sound of war drums beating across the globe, maybe this dummy is an early conscript to the call-up.
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