- Contributed by听
- angela_triggs
- People in story:听
- John Pateman and the community of Georgetown, Tredegar
- Location of story:听
- Tredegar, South Wales
- Background to story:听
- Civilian
- Article ID:听
- A4183003
- Contributed on:听
- 12 June 2005
This story was submitted to the Peoples saite by Angela Triggs of CSV Coventry and Warwickshire Action Desk on behalf of John Pateman and has been added to the site with his permission. The author fully understands the site's terms and conditions.
In 1945 I lived in Hill View, Georgetown, Tedegar and one of the streets below was called Kimberley Terrace. One of the sons of people living in that street had been captured by the Japanese and had been a POW, and was about , at last, to be repatriated.
When it was finally time for him to come home, all the houses in the streets of Georgetown opened their curtains and put on all the lights in their rooms in the house as he came by, as a welcoming response.
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