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AWOL to see his son
• I READ the John Gulliver article, Beastly treatment for a soldier on the run from D-Day (August 7). Well, my husband Tony Taylor was a little bit different. He didn’t go over on D-Day (June 6, 1944) but on July 13.
He went AWOL to see his son, who was born on June 29 – and thank goodness he did, because he was killed 11 days before the war ended in 1945.
I’ll never forget his visit to where we were living in Oxford after being bombed out of Clapham Road in south London.
Tony was looking out of the bedroom window (lights off, of course) and he turned to me and said: “What hell these doodlebugs are. What has man done? Is there a future for us all?” That makes me think of today’s world.
The military police came for him, saw the baby in his cot and said to Tony: “Keep your word with us and we’ll come and pick you up tomorrow” to give him more time to be with his son.
ELLEN LUBY
Parkhill Road
NW3
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