- Contributed by
- Researcher 238584
- People in story:
- David Reid MM
- Location of story:
- LONDON 1942
- Background to story:
- Army
- Article ID:
- A1286156
- Contributed on:
- 16 September 2003
I wrote a story a few weeks ago about my dads capture at St Valery in 1940,his great escape and his passage home.What i did not mention was that his brother was also imprisoned with my dad but he would not escape with his brother, and so spent the duration of the war in stalag 141.On his arrival home my dad was hosptilised at Edinburgh Castle.Due to his injuries he had to leave the army his father had enlisted him in at the age of 14 years 5months,he was the youngest boy soldier sent to the Sudan in 1929.On the 12 february 1942,my dad and his future wife my mum travelled to London,where at Buckingham Palace he was awarded the Military Medal from King George.
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