- Contributed by听
- Sheila Murray (Hulme)
- People in story:听
- Jean & Roy
- Location of story:听
- Manchester
- Background to story:听
- Army
- Article ID:听
- A2056420
- Contributed on:听
- 17 November 2003
This is the love story of a couple that my husband and I met at their wedding.
Roy attended a party on the night before he went back to his regiment. At this party he met a young lady called Jean. They got chatting and Roy asked Jean to write to him when he returned to his regiment. Jean agreed and they started to exchange letters.
Soon Roy was sent to France and he got caught at Dunkirk and was taken as prisoner of war. He was sent to work on a farm in Poland as slave labour. Jean received no letters for some time and she plucked up courage and made herself known to his mother and father.
After about six months they received news that Roy was a prisoner of war. Jean and Roy's family shared his letters. After a year Roy wrote and asked Jean to marry him. She agreed, bought herself a ring and had her picture taken wearing it to send to him.
As the Germans began to lose control of Poland at the end of the war, Roy was among the men that had to march across Poland and into Germany. He says he only survived because the farm he worked on gave him bits of extra food during his time with them.
Roy was eventually set free and returned to England in March 1945. Roy and Jean married in June 1945 and were happily married until Roy died in the 1980s. This is a true love story of the war, as they fell in love at first sight and stayed in love!
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