大象传媒

THIS IS A TRANSCRIPTION OF A PEOPLE'S WAR FEATURE THAT APPEARED ON 大象传媒 SOUTH EAST TODAY ON MONDAY JULY 4 AS PART OF THE WEEK'S COMMEMORATIONS.

"There I was, New Year's Day, 1945, standing in a field at about eleven o'clock in the morning in the middle of Belgium, when one of my chaps came running up to me waving a piece of paper. He came up to me and said "Congratulations!" And when I looked at it, it said "Son born, both well". And of course, I longed then to see my son.

I wasn't able to see him until I was on leave, six months later. When I next saw him, several months after that, a fascinating thing happened when I used some cine film to record my son in his pram.

In the background is a German general inspecting his troops! You see, it was pretty obvious that the film had been exposed twice -- it had been sold to one of my chaps for cigarettes. And here we have a double exposure of my son showing how we beat the Germans -- and here he is waving the victory flag in front of them!

He was my first born, which is very special -- and not to be able to see him for months and months was of course a great hardship."

THIS STORY WAS SUBMITTED BY JOHN YOUNG OF 大象传媒 SOUTH EAST TODAY ON BEHALF OF PIP PERRY. MR PERRY FULLY UNDERSTANDS THE SITE'S TERMS AND CONDITIONS.

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