One-hundred-year-old Mona Brown from Salen with her card from HM The Queen.
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JUST A month after women over 30 got the vote for the first time in Britain and little more than two months since US troops fought one of the last battles of the American Indian Wars, a baby girl was born into a Lancashire family on March 18, 1918.
She was born into a world battered by four years of slaughter in the trenches on the Western Front, but one which also saw the birth of such great future stars as film director Ingmar Bergman and composer Leonard Bernstein.