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Article: I never saw my grandad shed a tear ..until now; 60 YEARS ON, ONE SOLDIER'S RETURN TO EL ALAMEIN.(Features)
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- The Mirror (London, England)
- Article date:
- October 21, 2002
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Byline: FIONA CUMMINS, Mirror reporter and granddaughter of El Alamein veteran Jack Smith
IN a dusty strip of desert, my grandfather bowed his head and wept.
It was 60 years since Sergeant Jack Smith, of the Essex Regiment, had been in El Alamein, Egypt, fighting Rommel's mighty Afrika Korps.
But the sense of loss for fallen comrades was as raw as if it were yesterday. And it was the first time I had seen him cry.
Jack, now 85, was one of 90 British veterans who gathered here at the weekend for the 60th anniversary of El ...