He was a retired Humberside Police officer, from Beverley, and working as a volunteer guard on the railway.

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Robert Lund, 65, was working as a volunteer guard on the North Yorkshire Moors Railway when he was fatally injured at Grosmont station last May.

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Recently I read a story about a young Austrian woman working as a United Nations volunteer in war-torn Somalia.

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He found it on Seal Island five years ago while visiting his brother, Andre, who was there as a volunteer working with Project Puffin--a nonprofit group seeking to right an environmental wrong perpetrated 100 years ago.

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Her volunteer position as administrative assistant in the business office of a small college mandated working forty hours per week, but evenings and weekends were free for hiking and kayaking, reading, writing, and sewing Tlingit moccasins.

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