Helensburgh veterans' wartime memories

Published 26 Aug 2010 10:41 0 Comments

TWO Helensburgh veterans have been reliving their memories ahead of emotional trips to meet their former comrades.

Royal Navy veteran Walter Moffat and RAF veteran George Thomson are two of three Scottish World War Two veterans who will make emotional trips to places where they served, both at home and abroad.

Mr Moffat, who fought in the Battle of the Atlantic when the German battleship Bismarck was finally sunk, will travel to Portsmouth for a commemorative visit with the men he served with on the remarkable day.

Mr Thomson will visit the graves in Germany of two of his former comrades who lost their lives on September 12 1944 after their plane was shot down during a raid on Frankfurt.

Mr Thomson was the navigator on the plane and was one of the seven members of the crew to survive.

The trips have come about through The Big Lottery's Heroes Return 2 programme, which provides funding to World War Two veterans, their spouses, widows and widowers and carers to visit the areas where the veterans saw active service.

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This article appeared in Helensburgh Advertiser 26 Aug 10

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