Monday, November 11, 2013

Moose Jaw Times-Herald: Veterans remember Second World War experiences

Military members stand on guard at the Nov. 11, 2013
Remembrance Day ceremony at Mosaic Place.
Times-Herald photo by Lisa Goudy
By Lisa Goudy

Alan Griffith and Thomas Sawden were only 18 when they fought in the Second World War.

“He was a young fellow the same as I was,” said Sawden. “I never got out of England but I was in the 6th Airborne Division and we did everything we had to do.”

He said he remembers a bombing by the last propeller-driven aircraft over England in Oxfordshire.

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