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During the war my grandfather was a seargeant in a Tank regiment. He never once got home on leave due to the fact that he was in the north Africa campaign that went straight through to Italy. When writing home to my grandmother he was not allowed to tell of his whereabouts in his letters just in case the mailplane was shot down and the letters intercepted so the enemy could tell where the regiment was. If they stopped off in a town somwhere he would always try to buy a jigsaw puzzle of the place and remove the piece that had the name of the town on and send it to my grandmother thinking that she would notice.
And so have an idea of where he was so she would not worry so much.

Many years later all the family were sitting around the table talking about grandads time in the war and he told us that story when my grandmother suddenly got up and said "I always wondered why you kept sending the most useless jigsaw puzzles I could never finnish them".

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