- Contributed by听
- sallyk
- People in story:听
- alfred sydney rundle
- Location of story:听
- somerset and devon
- Background to story:听
- Army
- Article ID:听
- A2028197
- Contributed on:听
- 12 November 2003
L.A.C. Alfred Sydney Rundle. Armour Div: Service No 1420503
In 1944 our mother received a 6 page telegram, informing her to go to the local police station, where she would be issued with a travel warrant to take her to Taunton Hospital where our father lay critical after an accident.
He was serving with the R.A.F stationed at Crewkerne Somerset, they had retrieved a German warplane from the crash site and taken it back for dismantling, whilst dismantling the gun went off, shooting our father through the stomach and out of his back, lodging itself ito a mans arm.
I remember our mum saying, she could only keep repeating to him "don t leave me".
He did survive and was a successful hairdresser in Totnes Devon for another 23 years, when he passed away with prostate cancer. Often wonder if no accident would he have been with us a few more years longer.
To us he was, like all war victims a very brave man and would love to know more about him and his time in the R.A.F.
FINAL NOTE>
A person lives as long as they are remembered,
Only when they are forgotten, do they die.
Our dad will live forever.
Thanking you for reading this.
Sally.
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