A 99-year-old veteran from Wales who gave his food to a girl in France during the Second World War has been reunited with her 78 years later.
A 99-year-old veteran who gave his food to a girl in France during the Second World War has been reunited with her 78 years later.
Whilst moving through Normandy in June 1944, 14 days after D-Day, Mr Pye spotted a 14-year-old girl staring at him as he ate his evening meal -a slice of bread with jam and a tin of pilchards.When he woke the next morning, he found that she had half-filled his mess tin with milk and left a picture of herself with a written message on the back, which he kept in his wallet.
After hearing the story, volunteer Paul Cook, from the Taxi Charity for Military Veterans, an organisation run by London black taxi drivers which arranges free trips for veterans to the Netherlands, Belgium and France, started a social media campaign which eventually reunited the pair.
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