Daughter remembers father she never met who died a hero
WARWICK SMITH/Stuff Lorraine Gray has her father Trevor’s war-time diary and letters he wrote home before his death in 1941. “I was about 4. My mother was crying. I remember a tartan tea cosy he must have bought in England. “I kept thinking, ‘Where is he? Where is he?’ That’s when the death part hit me.” Trevor’s Wellington bomber crash-landed in northern Holland on November 7, 1941. The 27-year-old and his crew-mates died, but his family back home had no confirmation from in...
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