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Albert Vernon Briggs
Royal Air Force
from:Sheffield
My Father, Albert Briggs, often spoke about the time he spent in Medicine Hat, Canada during the war when he was training pilots. He loved this place and I think he was sent there as a break from active service flying Lancaster and other bombers and had taken part in many missions and narrowly escaped death several times. He had a medal from that time in Canada but all his medals were lost in later years.
Towards the end of the war he became a 2nd Lieutenant in the Royal Signals Corps and was posted to Italy where he worked with a team establishing communications at airfields as the retreating Germans were abandoning them.