Through his
service in the UK, Bob was involved in
three aircraft crashes,
finally bailing-out of a disabled Lanc
which landed him in a Stalag for two
years.He
kept a diary of his time in the long
march, (just before the war finished),
when, with 200,000
POW allied servicemen, was marched deeper
into Germany with senseless loss of lives
.
A very sad time for
Bob was on being called back to his
parents' home in Sturry, (NE of
Canterbury),
while he was on training at Blackpool. On
the train journey to Sturry, browsing the
morning paper,
he read about the death of his parents,
brother and sister the day before during
a bombing raid.
An enormous tragedy.
For Bob, a young man about to head into
the dangers of
raids into occupied Europe, it must have
been devastating and so hard to come to
terms with.
( As a young
Flt/Sgt ATC Cadet, Bob supported me all
the way. He was a true gentleman - Ed )
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