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Article: My PoW dad gave away his haunting wartime diary going to die... when he thought he was; From the pages of history...: Over 50 years later, our family has been reunited with the precious book.
- Article from:
- Evening Gazette (Middlesbrough, England)
- Article date:
- May 23, 2009
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Byline: MIKE BLACKBURN
mike.blackburn@eveninggazette.co.uk A PRISONER of war's harrowing wartime diary has been handed over to his daughter from Billingham after gathering dust in Canada for more than half a century.
Marilyn Buttery made an emotional 6,500-mile round trip to Ottawa to retrieve the valuable historical document which records George Gidney's four years in Stalag VIIIB.
The South Bank-born army private had fought in North Africa with the famous Desert Rats before being taken captive by the Germans in Italy in 1941.
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