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368 Battery of the 92nd Field Regt was posted in Niederkruchten at the end of the war. There, my father, Ivor Bush fell in love with a young girl, Maria Feger. She became pregnant and when Ivor was sent back to England, he made all the necessary arrangements for Maria to come to Bristol to be married. She finally decided to stay in Germany with her family and, apart from knowing that she subsequently gave birth to a son, all other contact was broken - although I now know that for 4 years my aunt and grandparents kept in touch by letter - always hoping that Maria and her son would one day come to England.
Ivor married my mother in 1948 and I was born in the same year.
In 2003, my father, very distressed and suffering from the beginnings of Alzheimers Disease, told me that I had a brother and armed only with the name Maria Feger and the town of Neiderkruchten, I spent the next 2 years trying to find him.
At long last, with the help of a registrar in Neiderkruchten and the German Embassy website, I was able to locate Ivor Werner Feger! He lives in Merbeck and is married with one daughter and 2 grandchildren. He had been made aware of my existence 30 years ago when he found letters from my aunt, but had been unable to find me or his father. My dad is now 85 and they met for the first time ever on 13th July 2005 when Werner and his family came to visit us in bristol - it was a wonderfully joyous occasion that we will all remember for the rest of our lives!

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