New Years Eve 1943 a long way from home. The boys got leave and took the train to Edinburgh. When my grandfather was wounded in The Netherlands he told me his two mates were killed by a German mortar bomb. He was firing the Bren gun in a foxhole. The other two men were passing up magazines. The shell landed in the hole killing the men and wounding Frank severely in both legs. It was my understanding these were the two men.
After watching Storming Juno, I see that the man on the left was Harvey 'Chief' Dreaver. God bless him. They were a band of brothers.
https://www.veterans.gc.ca/eng/remembrance/memorials/canadian-virtual-war-memorial/Detail/2082964
Frank is playing the accordion. His wife Mary is behind him. The picture has George Savage 125 Sherwood Street, Mansfield, Woodhouse on the back. However, it must have been taken in Canada.
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