- Contributed byÌý
- ateamwar
- People in story:Ìý
- Ralph Butters-author ,Madame Wart mother, Janine daughter, Jeane Marie son,
- Location of story:Ìý
- Nivelles, Belgium
- Background to story:Ìý
- Royal Air Force
- Article ID:Ìý
- A5024657
- Contributed on:Ìý
- 12 August 2005
Lockerbie 1944 I'm Ralph Butters- 3rd from right, front row aged 19
August 1944.
We sailed from Tilbury Docks headed for Normandy. It was a fine crossing. we drove up the beaches, it must have been hell on D-Day.
We stayed a few days before we moved on until we ended in Belgium. Myself and others were sent to the town alone.Whilst there I became friendly with a family until the war ended in Europe.
I lost contact until September 2004 when I made a return visit and the rest of the storyis recorded ina newspaper article. I returned again in May 2005 and met Janine again after 60 years, I was treated like a v.i.p.
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