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I have just spoken to Douglas Weaver, one of nine siblings who served in the armed forces during WWII. The parents of the Weavers received a telegram from the Queen thanking them for their contribution to the Allied war effort.

As with most veterans, Douglas is very modest about his contribution. Douglas was a driver for the RAF, based originally in India and then in Burma. Douglas spent a period of four years away from home in one stint. This just after meeting his future wife in Lemington Spa. Douglas recalls the friendly people of South Africa taking soldiers home for dinner whilst the ship re-supplied in Cape Town. Douglas and his comrades sailed from the UK, via Cape Horn to Rangoon. He remembers one day they would be sailing in one direction and then in the evening they would be sailing in another direction, maybe to evade an enemy vessel.

Of all of Douglas鈥檚 recollections, his most concrete is of the friendships formed and of the closeness of the men serving abroad.

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