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Story told to CHARLES DINSDALE

I was working at Johnson's Pickle factory on Minerva Pier when Ivy was showing some photo's to the girls. When I looked I saw a man in uniform and thought "Oh what a nice man". I never thought anymore of it. I left the Pickle factory and went to work at Blackburn Aircraft at Brough. This was more money and helped the war effort.

I came home one day, the day I will never forget for two reasons, the date was 6 June 1944 - D-Day and the second - sat in a chair in our front room in Great Passage Street was a young man in Army uniform. Mam asked me if I knew who it was - I said "no".

She told me it was Ivy's brother from the Pickle factory, then I realised it was the man in the photo, Les Roughton, who was home on leave from Burma and going on a parachute course. Mam then asked me if I would look after him and I did for 51 years.

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