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- joynsonatkinson
- People in story:听
- Eric Atkinson
- Location of story:听
- Jersey
- Background to story:听
- Army
- Article ID:听
- A2290385
- Contributed on:听
- 12 February 2004
A remarkable coincidence
In the Autumn of 1946 I spent a brief holiday in Germany. Walking along the river rhine embankment at Cologne, with the famous Holengolons bridge to my rear and the impressive Cologne Cathedral to my right, I was about to pass a middle aged German gentlemen leading a beautiful German Shepher dog which I stopped to pat. "Rex" he exclaimed and then looking at me closely he enquired "Were you ever in the army?" I replied that I had served seven years. "Were you ever in the Channel Islands?" he questioned I replied that I had trained on the island of Alderney. He face broke into a huge smile. "I saw your photograph in the chemist shop. A group photograph taken outside St Annes' Church had been enlarged to half full suze and exhibited in the shop window. It was in place when the Germans invanded. A truly remarkable conincidence.
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