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Carl Frederick VanRooyen
Royal Air Force
from:Bulowayo, Rhodesia
My father, Carl VanRooyen volunteered for the RAF from Rhodesia and was stationed at Holme-on-Spalding-Moor. He was a ground crew technician, repairing aircraft for bombing missions after they were damaged. My parents met at Sand Hill Farm where my Mom was born. Her name was Kathleen Smith. A pathfinder bomber crashed in one of the farms drainage dykes on take off due to engine failure. My father came to "mop up" and met and married my mom. Consequently my brother and I were born in Salisbury, Rhodesia after the war.