As we give thanks

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As we give thanks
As we give thanks

On the day that we mark the 75th anniversary of VE day, my thoughts inevitably turn to my late mum and dad, who served in their own different ways during the Second World War. They survived and went on to have happy and productive lives, but many others did not.

Vera Harper, née Swarbrick (1923-2008) served in the Blood Transfusion Service, receiving blood donations from airmen at bases all over Yorkshire, and probably beyond. Cyril Harper (1923-2002) landed in France on D Day and saw many things that he didn't care to remember in later life. As summer waned in 1944 he was taken prisoner of war and interned in several camps, the last one in what would eventually become East Germany. His liberation finally came thanks to the Russian army as it advanced from the east in 1945.

This photograph was taken at or near Beachy Head in East Sussex in July 1956, most likely when my mum and dad were visiting friends at Hastings. This was before I was even a twinkling in their eyes.

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Taken on: July 1, 1956
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