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Radio Scotland,5 mins

War Widow Jane Jackson: Sunday Morning Interview

Sunday Morning

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Sunday Morning with...reporter Bob Dickson visits the new Scottish Korean War Memorial in West Lothian and speaks with Jane Jackson, an 86 year old war widow from the village of Monkton in South Ayrshire. She and her husband Stan had a week and two weekends of married life together before he was posted to the Far East and ended up in Korea. He was an acting sergeant in the Kings Own Scottish Borderers when was killed in a friendly fire incident on the 20th of November 1951. She never remarried.

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